Comment Re:mmmkay (Score 1) 543
He was the closest thing to a sane, competent voice in an administration almost completely devoid of either quality.
Unfortunately, just as being "the closest thing to" an honorable man in a pack of scoundrels is not the same things as being honorable, this does not come as a very high recommendation to me. It's not as though we're talking about some child who was a product of a negative social environment and did his best to rise above it. We're talking about a fully-formed and independent adult who agreed to be part of something and, once there, agreed to go along with things that he knew (or at least should have known) to be wrong.
I do find it kinda sad, because it seems Powell got caught in a position where he had to choose between his duty to the truth (which I would argue was also his duty to the country) and his duty to the administration. The problem is, I think he chose wrongly, and I think he should be fairly held accountable for that.
