Re:Colin Powell's Leadership Presentation
by gaius on Thursday November 26, 2009 @08:24AM
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Doesn't mean he knows nothing about leadership. Dude got promoted to General on his merits.
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Re:Colin Powell's Leadership Presentation
by Alex3917 on Thursday November 26, 2009 @01:44PM
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Actually he got promoted for covering up war crimes in Vietnam.
I doubted your comment, then I looked it up, sure enough, according to Wikipedia Powell's handling of the assignment was later characterized by some observers as "whitewashing" the atrocities of My Lai.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_massacre
Whether or not that was why he was promoted, I don't know. It may have had a part in it. From reading more, it seems like he's a Macnamara type who thinks some evil is done in the name of good.