The big mistake colan powell made is going to be a blemish on his otherwise legacy. But that's like not am you didn't, you know, a mistake is getting at a car accident. Maybe a mistake is cheating on your taxes. A mistake, i'm suthing t ike, a sort of serious mistake. And when you destroy an entire country, like the quest becomes, should that become the defining thing that defines you?
In this News Brief, we recap the recap of Powell's life, from the handwringing over his Iraq War UN speech to the erasure of his role in covering up My Lai massacre to training rightwing death squads in Central America and the central importance of "Good Intentions" when venerating our beloved, bipartisan war-makers.