Former Secretary of State and Joint Chiefs of Staff chair Colin Powell received virtually wall-to-wall adulation in corporate media coverage of his death last week. In the hard logic of war, what difference did it make if you shot your enemy or starved him to death? Similarly, Powell’s “sterling career of public service” involved obstructing the truth of US war crimes in Vietnam. Powell’s deliberate lies shatter the myth that he was a “reluctant warrior,” as the Times’ Eric Schmitt (10/18/21) put it, a talking point that Ignatius (Washington Post, 10/18/21) repeated. Featured image: Main photo from the New York Times‘ obituary for Colin Powell (10/18/21).