Sad quote: Siva quotes Colin Powell at the top of his blog, a citation from the Secretary of State's 1995 memoir, My American Journey:

I am angry that so many sons of the powerful and well-placed. . . managed to wangle slots in Reserve and National Guard units. Of the many tragedies of Vietnam, this raw class discrimination strikes me as the most damaging to the ideal that all Americans are created equal and owe equal allegiance to our country.

Powell's anger, like the the soul we knew was once there, seems to have evaporated.