The Most Powerful VP in all of History
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Former vice president, Dick Cheney, recently accused President Barack Obama of being a greater detriment to the security of the Union, doing more to ‘hobble our defenses’ and ‘aid America’s adversaries’ than any single former US president.
In a pointed critique of Barack Obama’s work as the president, Cheney collaborated with his daughter- the Wyoming congressional candidate Liz Cheney- to present an op-ed to the Wall Street Journal. Among his criticisms, he claims that Obama’s foreign policy has increased the incentive for terrorists and hostile terror-supporting countries to ramp up their attacks on the US and other western nations.
The former vice president is widely considered as a primary driving force of the Bush administration’s foreign policy involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
‘This president has been more dedicated to the reduction of America’s military power than to defeating the nation’s enemies,’ Cheney wrote.
‘He has increased their capabilities, reach, and capital resources, to include those of the world’s most active and dedicated state sponsors of terror. He has done so at the expense of both our national security and that of our allies.’
‘President Obama has stood behind the reduction of our own military capabilities even as our enemies gain strength.’
The president also took blame from the former vice president for what he says is Obama’s irresponsible downsizing of the capabilities and reach of American armed forces.
‘By reducing the power and size of our military forces, Obama has made it certain that the wars of the future will be longer, and will endanger more American lives.’
Cheney and his daughter also held Obama responsible for eliminating the ‘enhanced interrogation program’ that he and his contemporaries set into place- the unpopular detention and interrogation of suspected terrorists.
However, despite Obama’s promise to decommission that program, and the infamous prison at Guantanamo, the Obama administration has been unsuccessful in completely shutting the prison down due to ongoing opposition from Congress.
Today, only a few months before Obama is due to leave the White House, the population at Gitmo remains at 61, according to a report by Fox News.
The U.S. has detained over 780 suspected terrorists at Guantanamo, according to a report by the New York Times.
The majority of the prison’s former detainees have been returned to the 59 different countries from which they were captured. There is very little transparency about any attempts to track them, or to prevent them from engaging in further terrorist activity.
Cheney continues, ‘As he allowed terrorists to go back to the battlefields where they came from, Barak Obama was at the same time pulling American forces out of both Iraq and Afghanistan.’
The Cheneys go on in their op-ed to accuse Obama of throwing away President George W. Bush’s accomplishments in the stabilization of Iraq and of showing dangerous obeisance to the nation of Iran.
‘President Obama and his Secretaries of State were so concerned with gaining the approval of Iran’s mullahs that they overlooked the American blood that is on Iranian hands as well as the decades of Iran’s functioning as the world’s number one state sponsor of terror,’ the Cheneys wrote.
While there is little doubt that Obama has had a hand in the sharp decline of American industry by conducting an all-out war on energy producers within this country, and for supporting years of liberal policies that have driven cities like Detroit into full blown destitution, it is strange that Cheney would condemn Obama’s military policy as it is so similar to that of the W. Bush administration.
He’s the presumed war-ending President who has ordered airstrikes in seven different foreign countries, and it’s become an enormous detriment to America’s reputation. In 2008, when Obama was elected- the world began to see the US in a different light. Everyone believed that the wars for oil would stop, that America had proven it had outgrown its racial tensions and that change was truly in the air.
However, Obama’s massive Drone War has produced more terrorism via the underreported bombing of civilians than President Bush could have dreamed of producing with his more conventional ground forces approach.
Not only is Obama’s drone fleet less discriminating in the targets it attacks, but the extreme stealthiness- the fact that they cannot be engaged by the people they are sent to kill- creates an overwhelming impression of dishonorable conduct by our nation’s military power.
The overwhelming effect of Obama’s influence on American Armed Forces is the transformation of our military from the world’s mightiest power into an invisible horde of inhuman assassins.
Poster Comment:
How many heart transplants has Dick Cheney had now? Is it three? Some people are living on borrowed time.