RIP Former US Secretary of State & former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin Powell 😔

[49ersfootball]

The worst news to wake up to. Finding out the first African American US Secretary of State & first African American to serve as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had passed away earlier this morning from COVID-19 complications.

Colin Powell - Wikipedia

 

[CurtisLemay]

He belongs to the ages now.

 

[Zachowon]

May he rest in peace

 

[49ersfootball]

May he rest in peace

I also found out Powell was fully vaccinated & still got the virus smh.

His wife, Alma also had the virus, but responded well to treatments.

 

[Zachowon]

I also found out Powell was fully vaccinated & still got the virus smh.

His wife, Alma also had the virus, but responded well to treatments.

Huh, weird....
But yeah he was also 84 years old

 

[49ersfootball]

Huh, weird....
But yeah he was also 84 years old

The worst news to wake up to.

 

[LindyAF]

may he join john mccain in his resting place, and may every other architect of the Iraq war join them speedily

 

[Spartan303]

General Colin Powell has passed away at age 84. May he rest in peace.

Colin Powell, military leader and first Black US secretary of state, dies after complications from Covid-19

Colin Powell, the first Black US secretary of state whose leadership in several Republican administrations helped shape American foreign policy in the last years of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st, has died from complications from Covid-19, his family said on Facebook. He was 84.

www.cnn.com

Colin Powell, former secretary of state, dead at 84 from COVID-19 complications

Gen. Colin Powell, the influential former secretary of state and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who played a pivotal policy role during the administration of President George W. Bush, died Monday at 84 from complications related to COVID-19, his family announced.

www.foxnews.com

 

[Whitestrake Pelinal]

He belongs to the ages now.

Oh my, yes.

Secretary of State Colin Powell speaks at UN, justifies US invasion of Iraq | February 5, 2003 | HISTORY

On February 5, 2003, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell gives a speech to the United Nations that is both highly consequential and full of assertions that would be revealed to be weak or lacking in credibility. Using talking points that many within his own government had identified as either...

www.history.com

 

[BlackDragon98]

He could have been so much more.

Instead, he became a Cabalist puppet and started one of the world's greatest man-made disasters in the Middle East.

 

[StormEagle]

I’m not going to say anything overly bad about the man, given that I think pissing on the dead shortly after they die is in bad taste if nothing else, but I can’t say I’m overly moved by his passing.

Powell was another neocon, establishmentarian like McCain and Bush. Not exactly being moved to tears here.

My best to his family, I suppose.

 

[Zachowon]

From what I hear, he was not bad in the military sphere of things. It was mainly when he was SECSTATE that he grew disliked.

Iraq has still always done better for us then A-stan

 

[StormEagle]

From what I hear, he was not bad in the military sphere of things. It was mainly when he was SECSTATE that he grew disliked.

Iraq has still always done better for us then A-stan

We at least had a reason to go into Afghanistan, to hunt down Osama and his backers, but there was absolutely no reason to go in and kick over Hussein’s regime…Besides Bush’s daddy issues I mean.

We should have never been in Iraq in the first place. There was no strategic or tactical reason to do so, and doing it massively destabilized the region and severely weakened one of the major counterweights to Iran.

 

[Zachowon]

We at least had a reason to go into Afghanistan, to hunt down Osama and his backers, but there was absolutely no reason to go in and kick over Hussein’s regime…Besides Bush’s daddy issues I mean.

We should have never been in Iraq in the first place. There was no strategic or tactical reason to do so, and doing it massively destabilized the region and severely weakened one of the major counterweights to Iran.

I mean.
They did have WMDs. They were moved before we got there.

That is about it.

Iraq still has been better then A-stan. At least the Iraqis fight against ISIS

 

[Terthna]

Iraq still has been better then A-stan.

Maybe, but that's not really saying much; not when the latter has set a new standard in this country for failure in military adventurism.

 

[Zachowon]

Maybe, but that's not really saying much; not when the latter has set a new standard in this country for failure in military adventurism.

Iraq managed to fight back and continued to fight back against ISIS until we arrived

 

[Rocinante]

Iraq managed to fight back and continued to fight back against ISIS until we arrived

There wouldn't have been an isis if we didn't topple Iraq and leave a power vacuum.

 

[Abhorsen]

The problem wasn't Colin Powell being a SecState, it was a military member being SecState. They see a problem, they see military as the solution. It's a bad idea.

 

[Zachowon]

The problem wasn't Colin Powell being a SecState, it was a military member being SecState. They see a problem, they see military as the solution. It's a bad idea.

The military would fix a lot of situations

 

[bintananth]

The military would fix a lot of situations

Only when kept on a tight leash.

Once off the leash you get bullshit like WWII Japan where the IJN and IJA basically did whatever they wanted and weren't answerable to the government. Sometimes subordinates went off the rails and not even those at the top knew what was going on.

Fr'ex: Tojo wasn't even informed that the IJN lost four aircraft carriers at Midway until seven months after they were sunk.