Lots of commentary out there on the Powell endorsement, but something that seems to have been missed...
About 3 minutes into his appearance on Meet the Press, Colin Powell declared that we are in "an era of Outreach." He prefaced by saying that the next POTUS must reach out to the world, to America's friends and allies, AND that the United States needed to be willing to talk to people we haven't been willing to talk to before
Now, Brokaw didn't press him on this point. But that sure looks to me like Powell thinks we should be talking, at some level, with our adversaries. And that sure means he is (again) rejecting this ridiculous neoconservative notion that the United States can't, shouldn't, and must not "negotiate with evil."
Why is neocon stance ridiculous? Well, the United States negotiated with the "Evil Empire", the Soviets, during the Cold War. Doing so in no way endorsed international Marxist-Leninism. It just signalled that the United States was confident enough to engage in diplomacy, knowing that America's core values can't really be threatened by having a conversation.
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