He advanced all his career because he was clean and articulate black man ...... sort of like Obama.
After the 1st Gulf War, there were a lot of heros. The MEDIA found the need to have a black hero. Colin was in the right position to be the media’s hero. Truth is that Colin was against everything that proved successful in that war.
If only his pants were ‘creased’. Who knows how much farther he could have gone.
His very vocal reticence about finishing the job just encouraged other wannabe Husseins to continue inflicting on the world unnecessary deaths, destruction, and mayhem.