Cheney: Obama 'left a path of destruction in his wake'

Washington Examiner ^ | August 29, 2015 | Barbara Boland

[Kaslin]

In a new book, former Vice President Dick Cheney and daughter Liz Cheney argue that President Obama "has dangerously surrendered [the] nation's global leadership."

Before Obama became president, Republican and Democrat presidents understood and delivered on a "75-year, largely bipartisan tradition of ensuring America's pre-eminence and strength," the two write in their book, "Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America."

But, "despite the explosive spread of terrorist ideology and organizations, the establishment of an Islamic State caliphate in the heart of the Middle East, the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and increasing threats from Iran, China, North Korea and Russia, President Obama has departed from this 75-year, largely bipartisan tradition of ensuring America's pre-eminence and strength."

Obama has abandoned Iraq and Afghanistan, and America's leadership in the world, the two Cheneys charge in their book's excerpt published in the Wall Street Journal. His "dangerous cuts" to the military have hurt the nation's security and "left the Army as unready as it has been at any other time in its history," they write.

Cheney is critical of the Iran deal, saying that it will make war "more likely, not less" and that Obama seems ready "to gut" nuclear non-proliferation, something that presidents of both parties recognized the importance of for "more than 45 years."

"President Obama is unraveling this international structure as part of an agreement that provides a pathway for the world's worst state-sponsor of terror to acquire nuclear weapons," says the excerpt.

[doorgunner69]

I have never been a fan of Cheney

I expect you are quite popular at the DUmp.

[arbitrary.squid]

I wouldn’t want anything to do with either of them.

[Jack Hammer]

Cheney is one f the few guys left in public life who actually gets it.

[Ouderkirk]

I like your going for it without a flame suit.

[arbitrary.squid]

I don’t scare easily. I’ve been married for too long with that.

I’m no liberal, but that doesn’t mean I buy in with everything that any conservative has done.

[Ouderkirk]

Not many here stray off the reservation of reverence for Cheney

I have respect for Cheney...he’s one of the few men who will at least tell the truth, as he sees it. You may not like what he has to say, but he’s at least going to say it and make his case for what he believes. Now, whether what he is advocating is the right thing to do, is another discussion. I think that even Cheney would agree that what he is saying isn’t the last word on the particular subject, he’s putting his opinion out there to be debated.

Everyone views him as some dark personality (either positive or negative) where I think that he is an earnest guy advocating for what he believes to be correct, nothing more. Sometimes he’s wrong.

I’ve never seen a scorecard on Cheney, whether he’s right or wrong by X percent. Would be interesting to know.

[arbitrary.squid]

I personally do not like him. Never have. There are plenty of politicians I do like, but he is not one of them. I think he only has his best interests at heart and I do not consider him a statesman.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

He's the one man I would have dearly loved elected to the presidency. He's a no-nonsense, sober, serious man who understands the role of the U.S. In the world. He would have been another Reagan.

He had Obama figured out from the start.

[RedHeeler]

Is Cheney a conservative? In the Alaskan sense?

[clearcarbon]

"Cheney: Obama 'left a path of destruction in his wake".

[avenir]

In this pic Cheney reminds me of Max Von Sydow in The Exorcist, lol.