OPINION: Powell fell victim to the expansionist policy that his instincts told him was wrong. But his prudent vision is making a comeback.
Colin Powell, the former secretary of State who died this week, speaks during a news conference at the United Nations headquarters in September 2003. | AP Photo/Mary AltafferEmma Ashford is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and a nonresident fellow at the Modern War Institute.
Colin Powell was a paradox: He was a key enabler of perhaps the most tragic example of U.S. foreign policy overreach in recent memory. Yet for most of his career, he struggled mightily — and frequently in vain — against precisely that kind of overreach.in last week’s obituaries.
Powell, who passed away this week, will be forever associated with two things. The first and likely more historically significant is his ill-fatedin front of the U.N. Security Council, which paved the way for the invasion and occupation of Iraq, and directed the course of U.S. foreign policy for two decades.
Colin Powell holds up a vial he said could contain anthrax as he presents evidence of Iraq's alleged weapons programs to the United Nations Security Council. | Elise Amendola/AP Photo The mismatch between these two legacies is the ultimate irony of Colin Powell’s career. His compelling vision of constrained U.S. military power, forged during the Vietnam War, was out of step with a post-Cold War zeitgeist that saw America as the “.” Powell failed to sell the foreign policy establishment on the idea that the military should be used sparingly and prudently. Worse still, after a decade of resisting the missionary impulse in U.S.
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Powell, with ethics move, clears decks for Nov meeting and maybe his renominationWith a sensitive policy meeting less than two weeks off and a renomination hanging fire in the White House, Fed Chair Jerome Powell's tightening of Fed ethics rules on Thursday has shifted the narrative away from an issue that had become a chief target for his critics and eliminated a distraction from his day job as well.
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Obituary: Colin Powell thought America should tread carefully in the worldThe four-star general and secretary of state died on October 18th, aged 84
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Obituary: Colin Powell thought America should tread carefully in the worldThe four-star general and secretary of state died on October 18th, aged 84
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