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(photo: Colin Powell as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1989 to 1993
- courtesy of Encyclopaedia Britannica)
During his presidential campaign, Senator Obama has laid out a foreign policy agenda that seeks to move the United States away from a pre-emptive posture to a more measured approach in using military assets. The question that should be asked is who is capable of transferring the foreign policy success in Iraq of George H.W. Bush of the early 1990s into Obama’s administration? For my money, it would be none other than Colin Powell.
Earlier this spring, Powell went on record with the following statement, “I’ve seen other individuals come along who didn’t have that breadth of experience and what they do is surround themselves with people who do bring that experience. With Senator Obama, he didn’t have a lot of experience running a presidential campaign, did he?” Powell asked. “But he seems to know how to organize a task and he seems to know how to apply resources to a problem at hand. So that gives me some indication that (with) his inexperience in foreign affairs or domestic affairs, he may be someone who can learn quickly.”
With this statement, Powell appreciates the management style and effectiveness of Senator Obama during his campaign and gives his considerable weight as a student of foreign and military policy to deflect possible criticisms of Obama’s lack of experience. A foreign / military policy based upon the “Powell Doctrine” would be a welcome change from the shoot from the hip mentality of the current administration. Who better than its’ architect, in the role of Secretary of Defense, to move the country beyond Iraq?
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