This is not a joke.

Colin Powell, US Secretary of State, performs a version of the Village People’s hit disco song ‘YMCA’ at the conclusion of Asia’s largest security meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Friday July 2, 2004. Powell took to the stage, dressed as a construction worker Friday, with other unidentified US diplomats to deliver their rendition of the 1970’s hit song to an audience of Asia Security meeting delegates.

Click the link for a photo… and here’s another.

I’m actually aghast at this. At a time when our credibility world-wide is at what must be close to an all-time low, we sent the Secretary of State to Indonesia to dress up like a camp act from the 1970s and sing YMCA. At what point during the evening did Powell think, "That’s it. I really have sold my soul to the devil?"