While many critics have been charaterizing the President’s lengthy deliberation on the Afghanistan war as stalling (namely Vice President Dick Cheney who said Obama was “afraid” to make a decision), former Secretary of State Colin Powell advised Obama to “take his time.”

In an interview with Roland Martin, Powell remarked that the President should not rush to judgment and as any potential decision will have “consequences for years to come.”

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