Tag: Colin Powell

Powell to Obama: ‘Take your time’ on Afghanistan

In an interview Wednesday with columnist Roland S. Martin, Gen. Colin Powell said that on the issue of sending additional troops to Afghanistan he had advised President Obama to “take your time” and “not be rushed into a decision.”
“This one is the decision that will have consequences for years to come,” Powell said he’d [...]

Powell warned of ‘terror-industrial complex’ in 2007 interview

When MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann welcomed three former members of Monty Python to Countdown on Wednesday, his biggest surprise was a question from Terry Gilliam, “How come that Colin Powell interview about the terror-industrial complex didn’t become a bigger story?”
Olbermann was taken aback by the question, but by the next day he had uncovered Powell’s September [...]