My Amercan Journey
(Colin Powell)
The only one dove in the first Bush's Administration, probably he paid,
as sometimes happens in the history, for the mistakes of the hawks. It
is strong the suspect of many people his speech at the UN Security
Council to back the US intervention overthrowing the never found mass
destruction weapons was fatal to his political career ,notwithstanding
the rumors he retired because of medical problems. To read now his
biography dedicated to his military career, from the first support to
the Vietnamese Army to the most important military engagements of US in
the world, from the Irangate to the Panama invasion, from the Desert
Storm to Restore Hope is much more important than at its appearence on
1996 to evaluate the deep humanity of this big man. We don't
remember the single steps until to the appointment to the JCS and
finally to the nevralgic role of National Security Adviser, but
two importants events of his life: the first one is the change of his
vote fom the Democratic to the Republican Party on 1990, immediaterly
after the failure of Desert One, the tragic operation to save the US
hostages in Teheran ordered by the President Carter. To give vent to
his rage for the tragic end of a military action to whom he forecasted
the probability of success 1ws.100 he was writing an ironic guide how
to communicate desasters to the citizens. The second is the
satisfaction with the American people for the success with a few losses
of the the first operation in Irak under Bush Senior, when the American
people enjoyed victory after the long agony in the Asian
Southeast.He never kept secrets two details: his birth in the poor
Bronx and its maximum care for the safety of the troops in the action,
two features however linked.
His political experience began with the assistance to the meetings
Reagan/Gorbachov but his reward arrives when the President Clinton
asked him to replace the State Secretary Warren Christofer,an offer he
declined. Many people hoped he can become the new US President:however
he was writing in the last rows of his book that politics
is the art of the compromise, but his choice was do not make compromise
only to be affiliated to a Party or to another one.
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