Obama, Powell, and Popularity
America doesn’t need to rehabilitate itself in the eyes of the world.
politics, elections, foreign affairs, ideology, left wing, liberalism, scandal
October 31, 2008, by Thomas Sowell
All the while Colin Powell knew that his own subordinate, Richard Armitage, was the one who had told Robert Novak that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA. Neither Armitage nor anybody else was convicted for that because there was no crime to convict them of.
Among the reasons given by Secretary Powell for supporting Barack Obama is that Obama can restore America’s standing with foreign countries.
The idea that the United States must somehow rehabilitate itself in the eyes of the United Nations or NATO or “world opinion” is staggering, even though it is an idea very popular in the mainstream media.
The first duty of a President of the United States is to protect American interests — of which survival is number one — regardless of what others may say.