There are no positive steps without the truth. We've lost the ability to distinguish between positive and painful (cutting through lies, looking at our own complicity, transparency) and negative and numbed (willful ignorance, calculated amnesia, allergy to accountability). The longer we go on playing footsie with the truth, the more painful the inevitable unveiling will be. Political animals, it seems, survive by foisting the consequences of decisions or LACK OF decisions on the next generation and the next Congress. This is the root of the cowardice-- bald, butt-preserving, short-term self-interest. Thank you Col. Wilkerson for speaking out. (In defense of him, they were lied to as well. At least he is telling the truth after being lied to, instead of continuing to lie to himself and the American people like the Republicans and their Democratic enablers.
About Colin Powell
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