The Farce of Dick Cheney Giving Foreign-Policy Advice
The former veep's record is marked by false claims, erroneous predictions, and catastrophic results. Now he's urging more wars. Has his audience learned its lesson?
CONOR FRIEDERSDORFJUL 14 2014, 7:23 AM ET
Former Vice President Dick Cheney failed to anticipate the September 11 terrorist attacks and responded to them by urging the catastrophic invasion of Iraq, which will cost $6 trillion, roughly 5,000 American lives, and tens of thousands of serious injuries. In hindsight, it's clear that Cheney's assessment of pre-war intelligence was inept if not dishonest; that his predictions about how Iraqis would react to the U.S. invasion were dreadful; that his estimate of the cost to Americans was wildly inaccurate; and that he was partly responsible for an occupation as negligent as, say, a man on a duck hunt who shoots another man in the face.
Despite that dismal record of discredited claims, erroneous predictions, wrongheaded analysis, and deadly consequences, The Weekly Standard has chosen Dick Cheney, along with his daughter, Liz, to author an article on Iraq policy. (Next month, the magazine may have Brazil's soccer coach co-author a piece on defeating the German squad.)
The Cheneys advanced these four arguments:
Invading Iraq was prudent.
George W. Bush waged the war successfully.
Barack Obama is responsible for the chaos in Iraq today.
America needs to wage war in at least three countries and spend more on the military.
The chutzpah required of them to opine on Iraq at all is noteworthy.
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/07/the-farce-of-dick-cheney-giving-foreign-policy-advice/374357/
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