General Colin Powell isn't my favorite in the Bush Administration. (See Rumsfeld, Donald H.) Sometimes, however, Powell comes through with a home run. This is one of those times.

I was browsing the archive of Free Market Fairy Tales (great blog, by the way) and found Secretary Powell's remark in this post. My reaction was simple: My jaw dropped, then came back up in a tight line, and I lowered my head in response to something that landed deep within whatever part of me responds to overwhelming emotional force in its most simple form. There couldn't possible be a better answer to the Archbishop of Canterbury's question. Sure, one might have some flashy or high-sounding statement of principle or a cutting remark, but what Colin Powell said was direct, to the point, and utterly irrefutable.

What did he say in response to the Archbishop's question about American plans for postwar Iraq and American empire-building?

"Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those who did not return."

Mr Free Market reports that the room in which this took place became "really quiet". As it should have---nothing more neither need have been nor should have been said.

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