The Cheney Strategy

Dick holds no punches in describing Pelosi as a new-aged appeaser:

"Al-Qaeda functions on the basis that they think they can break our will. That's their fundamental underlying strategy: that if they can kill enough Americans or cause enough havoc, create enough chaos in Iraq, then we'll quit and go home," Cheney added. "And my statement was that if we adopt the Pelosi policy, that then we will validate the strategy of al-Qaeda. I said it, and I meant it."

Cheney's strategy, on the other hand, is flawless: stay in Iraq so as to validate al-Qaeda's claims that the USA is an imperial power, increase terrorist recruiting, lose American soldiers in a war which makes the US weaker as opposed to stronger and perpetuate chaos in Iraq by stopping the Iraqis from dealing with their own civil war.

Cheney is incapable of admiting that the invasion was a mistake, and that our continued presence strengthens the enemy. Americans are still influenced by his irrational rhetoric, but hopefully they are learning that he can't be trusted.

Posted by Peter