Colin Powell has died, and the hagiographic obituaries are upon us.
The New York Times hails him as a “pathbreaker”: the United States’ first Black national security adviser, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, and secretary of state.
The rest of the US mainstream media have taken a similar line, erupting in characteristic American self-adulation at the idea that a once-discriminated-against Black man was able to make it so far in life.
MSNBC took the hagiography a step further by . . . titling its posthumous Powell segment: “Richard Haass: Colin Powell was grounded in reality”.
If Powell’s reality included non-existent Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and other threats, what does “reality” even mean in the end? READ MORE AT AL JAZEERA ENGLISH.