He forgets all too quickly what actually happened in the Middle East to have the USA find itself at the center of the ONLY answer available. That is not what was to happen here. The Iraqi government and military were suppose to be able to hold it's own borders.
My, my, my, how quickly some people forget.
September 24, 2014
By Geoff Loftus
...It’s too bad that Dick Cheney (click here) feels the need to set the record straight. He’s encouraging Republicans to oppose the president in a time of foreign-policy crisis—traditionally partisan politics stop during a foreign crisis—and he’s mangling facts right and left as he goes after Obama. The only fact that Cheney seems to have correct is that Obama is doing things differently than the Bush administration. In other words, Obama is getting in Cheney’s way.
What Dick Cheney is doing is conducting a master class in How Not To Retire. Here are two lessons in what to avoid when you leave a senior management position:
Get Your Facts Straight — If you are asked something about the organization you left, reply honestly that you don’t have anything constructive to add to the discussion since you are no longer active in the situation. If you are constitutionally incapable of replying in that fashion, at least have your facts straight. Mr. Cheney constantly accuses the president of being soft on terrorism, however the Bush administration had almost seven years to get Osama bin Laden, “dead or alive,” and failed. Obama took out bin Laden after a little more than two years. And there have been many other al Qaeda leaders have been taken out under Obama’s leadership. So who is/was the softie?...
