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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and guests about

politics. It's Thursday, October 21st. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of the New Yorker.

Colin Powell, the four-star general who served as the national security advisor to Ronald Reagan,

the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President's George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton,

and Secretary of State to George W. Bush, died this week.

Powell was a Vietnam War veteran who spent 35 years in the military,

and that experience drove his belief that the United States should intervene only in situations

where victory was almost certain and the exit strategy was clear.

But the plain-spoken Powell, deeply admired by Americans for his prudence and integrity,

will be remembered most for the speech he gave to the United Nations Security Council in 2003,

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