When he died there were lots of extremely positive and nostalgic comments about him. Are war criminals automatically forgiven when they die? Will Bush also be remembered fondly and for his buffoonery and not the war crimes? That's bleak..
Well, compared with the other neocon hawks, Powell was at least not a neocon. And not terribly hawkish.
We live in times when people want to turn the war criminal Jimmy Carter into a moral hero. Don't even talk to me about more recent shit being too far gone. Carter ended the age of the New Deal President. He introduced neoliberal economics, which most people finally realize we're suffering from now. Our bleak future is Carter's "Crisis of Confidence." It's our fault, according to Carter.
