You’ve got to hand it to Dick Cheney. This is not a man who does anything halway. Too bad for us his main focus remains being a scary old cyborg.
The former VP gave an interview to Politico this week, where he claimed there was a “high probability” the USA would suffer a nuclear or biological attack becuase of Barack Obama’s policies. Apparently, you can still be a vicious fear-monger even after leaving power.
What bothers me about this is not the total lack of evidence of the latex-thin logic in Cheney’s statements. Rather, it’s the fact that Cheney almost seems to want something like this to happen as some perverse justification of his administration’s messed-up policies. He can’t wait to point to some smoking hole in the ground and yell “See? SEE? I told you torture and human rights violations were the only thing holding the terrorists back!” And that’s pretty crass.
Here’s some advice to the American Media and Americans in general: ignore Dick Cheney. Perhaps if no one pays this twisted Sith lord any more attention, he will simply crawl back under the rock from whence he first emerged.
Sir,
It’s good to have you back to normal blogging! Cyberspace missed you!