I am so glad I didn't skip this event. It's rare that one gets to be in the audience of really great public speakers, let alone speakers with such entertaining, intelligent speeches. Sure, he is not right all the time, but you get the sense listening to him and watching him that he's a truly wise person. And, he's a great stand-up comedian when he chooses to be.
The speech put heavy emphasis on globalization, and America within a world context of a global community, so it was amusing to me, on a different note, that on my way out, the people in front of me were speaking Arabic, a man about General Powell's age and his adult son. The people being me were speaking Russian, a bunch of foreign students joking (in Russian) about that they should have cheered "Russia, Russia" whenever the General mentioned Russia in his speech. I just wish I knew a bit of Arabic so I could have understood that conversation, too.
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