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Title: Pulling the Wool over your Eyes
Review: I just don't get this great big love affair with Colin Powell. I didn't know much about him except from CNN before I read this book, but now I just don't like him much. Basically he's a commander more interested in his troop's welfare than in accomplishing a mission. That's not so bad, you say, generals should worry about their subordinates. The problem is that his missions go awry (Somalia), his advice is often wrong (Bosnia), or he steals credit for others' accomplishments (Iraq). I don't understand why folks are so mesmerized by the fact that he's black and came from New York. Powell comes across in his own book as ambitious, duplicitous, self-serving. The consummate inside-the-beltway bureaucrat.
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