Colin Powell: Hindsight Blame shifting and Wrong Analysis

Colin Powell: Terrorists are not greatest threat to nation - On Politics - USATODAY.com

Hmmm. So Colin Powell thinks the GREATEST threat to our nation in 2007 is not terrorists, but our poor image around the world?

The greatest threat to America in 2007 is our moral decline and our lack of moral restraint..it's the same thing that has brought down all the major empires in history, and it's happening to us.

Powell would do well to recognize that this lack of moral restraint IS the poor image we reflect to the rest of the world.

When the greatest cultural icons we have to export is Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, we have a nation adrift.

And, is anyone besides me mightily annoyed at the way Powell plays the game of blame shifting the problems HE helped create in Iraq? Powell acts as if he was an outsider looking in, and with all the hindsight he has now, he criticises his former colleagues?

If he knew that these problems were going to present themselves and he did not insist that the contingencies he talks about be planned for, then he was at best short-sighted and at worst derelict in his duty.

That blame shifting and hindsight positioning is of itself a symptom of our nation's poor moral state.

Powell was a great general. Perhaps he should have left it at that.