Powell recalibrates American Virtue, circa 2009. And none too soon.

Here's the picture Powell saw of Elsheba Khan at her son's grave. NYT has some background on Cpl. Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan.

He and three other soldiers, including a corporal from Washington Heights, were killed in Baquba after a bomb detonated while they were checking abandoned houses for explosives....

Mr. Khan graduated from Southern Regional High School in Manahawkin in 2005, and enlisted in the Army a few months later, spurred by his memories of the 9/11 terror attacks. “His Muslim faith did not make him not want to go. It never stopped him,” his father, Feroze Khan, told the Gannett News Service in a story printed shortly after his death. “He looked at it that he’s American and he has a job to do.”

Here's Powell endorsing Obama. Let's see how long it takes for him to become one of Michelle Bachmann's "anti-Americans."



And here's the delightful pseudo-patriot, Michelle Bachmann, doing her best McCarthy impression.



Yee-haw! We've been here before, eh?



The "Red Menace" is the primary Tsunami example in Moonshots and Tsunamis -- the kind of thing that makes us double stupid and susceptible to wild manipulations before we wake up and get triple smart and get on with living up to our resume's promise.



In other words, they don't "hate us for our freedoms." They laugh at us for our predictability and naivete. They laugh at us because we're a behemoth yet we scare so damn easy--at least, some of us do.

Here's to Colin Powell for finally saying "Snap out of it!"