Idiot from Berkley

In response to Kenneth Thiesen, an idiot at Berkley who thinks I should not support my father, I post these remarks from Colin Powell in 2003:

There is nothing in American experience or in American political life or in our culture that suggests we want to use hard power. But what we have found over the decades is that unless you do have hard power — and here I think you're referring to military power — then sometimes you are faced with situations that you can't deal with.

I mean, it was not soft power that freed Europe. It was hard power. And what followed immediately after hard power? Did the United States ask for dominion over a single nation in Europe? No. Soft power came in the Marshall Plan. Soft power came with American GIs who put their weapons down once the war was over and helped all those nations rebuild. We did the same thing in Japan.

So our record of living our values and letting our values be an inspiration to others I think is clear. And I don't think I have anything to be ashamed of or apologize for with respect to what America has done for the world. [Applause.]

We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we’ve done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in, and otherwise we have returned home to seek our own, you know, to seek our own lives in peace, to live our own lives in peace. But there comes a time when soft power or talking with evil will not work where, unfortunately, hard power is the only thing that works.

My father and those he works with are far better men than those attending Berkley. And nothing a putz college student ever writes or ever will write will ever change that.

The worst part is ... when disasters like Tsunami's and apartheid and the horrors of the Sudan happen, those like this creep are the first to scream for American involvement and American help for those affected.

Well would he like to be sent? Would he volunteer?

I don't know why I read these things. It just makes my blood boil.

You are entitled to your opinion, idiot Berkley person. And I'm entitled to mine. I think you are a stupid. And stupid lasts forever.