The plan of al Qaeda and Bin Laden from the start was to lure the US into endless conflict in the Muslim world to drain our national blood and treasure. Mr Cheney and his boss fell into al Qaeda’s trap in a disasterous way in Iraq. Now Mr. Cheney tries to put all the blame on President Obama. Of course entitlements need to be controlled and Mr. Obama is greatly incompetent, but I don’t think Mr. Cheney with the history of his administstraion’s awful blunder is the most fitting spokesman to bemoan a situation his administration’s blunder greatly helped to put us in.
After actually looking at the link, I see that it’s LIZ Cheney, not her dad. But the point is the same, after the Iraqi fiasco it was inevitable that there would be severe fiscal pressures on the defense budget no matter who is in charge. Whether it’s entitlements or world empire, big government is going to feel the pinch.
Exactly. It doesn't matter who incited us into the war, we simply could not afford it. We must learn to fight asymmetrical warfare on the cheap.