I was overjoyed by Gen Colin Powell quiet eloquent reminder that the real America is a place where all faiths and ethnicities live together, work together, serve together.
On Meet the Press this past Sunday, he said:
"Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer's no, that's not America," he said empathically.
"Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim-American kid believing that he or she could be president?"
He recalled seeing a photo essay about troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan with one picture showing a grieving mother putting her head on the headstone of her son's grave in Arlington Cemetery.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/2008...=16#showHeader
Powell said the dead soldier was a 20-year-old who had the Purple Heart and Bronze Star military decorations.
"And then, at the very top of the headstone, it didn't have a Christian cross, it didn't have the Star of David, it had crescent and a star of the Islamic faith. And his name was Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan, and he was an American."
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/200...kareem-r-khan/
Hats off to Gen. Powell, it's people like him and spirit like his which makes this great country what it is.
Overjoyed by the comments of Gen. Colin Powell on Meet the Press (10/19/08)
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