By Patrick J. Buchanan – March 1, 2002

“I believe condoms [are] part of the solution to the HIV/AIDS crisis, and I encourage their use by young people who are sexually active. You’ve got to protect yourself. … Forget about taboos, forget about conservative ideas. … It’s the lives of young people that are put at risk by unsafe sex, and therefore protect yourself.”

This ringing endorsement of condoms, given to the world’s young via MTV by Colin Powell, has probably doomed any chance he had to be on a Republican ticket. But the general probably does not care, for he obviously believes he was speaking the truth.