The Tragical Story of One Colin Powell

Some of us have wondered over the past couple of years, what happened to the Colin Powell we all respected? Fred Kaplan takes a stab at figuring that out. (Slate)

One particularly telling tale:

At times, Powell has taken his fate with resigned humor. Hendrik Hertzberg wrote in The New Yorker last year of a diplomatic soiree that Powell attended on the eve of war, at which a foreign diplomat recited a news account that Bush was sleeping like a baby. Powell reportedly replied, "I'm sleeping like a baby, too. Every two hours, I wake up, screaming."

One can only hope he'll soon snap out his nightmare and back to reality.