Where is Colin Powell on Military/Social Issues?
News Release! Where is Colin Powell on Military/Social Issues? Now that retired Army General Colin Powell has endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for President, it is hard to tell where Powell stands on social issues that will affect the military of the future. In the 1995 book Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell, author and Washington Post Associate Editor Karen DeYoung wrote about the resistance of Gen. Colin Powell in 1992 when then-President Bill Clinton tried to deliver on his promise to lift the ban on homosexuals in the military. At the time Powell wrote a letter to feminist congresswoman Patricia Schroeder (D-CO), pointing out that “[S]kin color is a benign, non-behavioral characteristic. Sexual orientation is perhaps the most profound of human behavioral characteristics. Comparing the two is a convenient but invalid argument.” (pp. 230-233) The normal human desire for privacy and modesty in sexual matters has not changedparticularly in the “forced intimacy” of infantr
Where is Colin Powell on Military/Social Issues?