You’re leaving Cheney out of that triad. Cheney also has a long working history with those 3, particularly with Gates.
“You’re leaving Cheney out of that triad. Cheney also has a long working history with those 3, particularly with Gates.”
I left him out because he is factually not with them now. Apparently while Cheney had working relationships with the three of them in the past, it is not clear, in that history , that he was on the same page with them, then, on their thinking and policy points of view and it is very clear he has never been on the same page as them on Bush’s policies vis-a-vis Iraq. Maybe, like Bush, he realized, through the 9/11 experience, that the “realists” (Middle East peace and American “peace” with the people of the Middle East, can be achieved by the “stability” of its dictators) had been wrong all along.