Powell Ponders His Future

Posted on December 10, 2004

After being turned down in his request to stay on as Secretary of State so that he could try to make some headway on the Israeli-Palestinian situation in light of Yasir Arafat's unlamented (by the West, anyway) departure, Colin Powell now faces the task of figuring out what he wants to do next. A recent poll showed that he had a good shot of winning if he ran for governor of New York, but Powell has ruled out running for political office. (I can't imagine why. The last presidential election was so lovely, so civil, so easy on the candidates' families....) AFP via Yahoo reports that Powell said today that he will not be leaving public life. He hinted that he may pick up a pen and write a political column, or perhaps even host a political show. Of all the people leaving the White House, Colin Powell is the one that I think most people would like to see a lot more of in the future. And I also think he'd make an excellent governor of New York. Or anywhere else, for that matter.