Dick Cheney Gives a Speech
And predictably, it’s filled with distortions, half-truths and misrepresentations (full transcript here):
I have neither the time nor inclination to write a thorough critique, so I’ll just end this post with a single observation: the vast majority of President Obama’s foreign policy problems, from the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan to our diplomatic problems with Iran and North Korea, are the product of Richard Cheney’s failed policies. The man is a disgrace, and that is doubly true for any organization that gives currency to his discredited ideas.
They left us all kinds of problems, but I don’t think anything compares to Afghanistan/Pakistan. Check this out while keeping a mental ticker of what was primarily on the administration’s mind at the moments in question: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/taliban/view/.Report