Andrew Sullivan, conservative:
It is very rare to get someone with the same stratospheric levels of arrogance and incompetence as you find in Dick Cheney. Let’s go to the tape: A war launched on false premises, a trillion dollar debt in a period of growth, a destruction of America’s moral standing, the loss of one major city (New Orleans) and the devastation of another (New York City), two horribly bungled military campaigns that have trapped his successors for decades, a political party decimated for a generation, his closest aide in jail for obstruction of justice, his own daughter and grand-child targeted by his own party as second-class citizens in the state they live in. And a war criminal. Did I miss anything?
Why is this man not laughed off every TV set he walks onto?”
What I find most galling is the repeated statement by the high panjandrums of the US right that the Bush-Cheney security policies “kept America safe after 9/11.” Any idiot can see that these policies – war-mongering, torture, renditions, the secret police state – encouraged the recruitment of takfiri terrorists throughout the world’s Islamic communities, thereby objectively worsening America’s security position. These policies were not only evil, they were moronic. The Obama administration is correct to seek to avoid the criminalization of policy differences, but the criminalization of belligerent and recalcitrant stupidity is another matter entirely.
Hear hear!