"More than anyone else, including his mentor and departed co-conspirator, Donald Rumsfeld, Cheney has been the intellectual author and bureaucratic facilitator of the crimes and misdemeanors that have inflicted unprecedented disgrace on our country’s moral and political standing: the casual trashing of habeas corpus and the Geneva Conventions; the claim of authority to seize suspects, including American citizens, and imprison them indefinitely and incommunicado, with no right to due process of law; the outright encouragement of “cruel,” “inhuman,” and “degrading” treatment of prisoners; the use of undoubted torture, including waterboarding (Cheney: “a no-brainer for me”), which for a century the United States had prosecuted as a war crime; and, of course, the bloody, nightmarish Iraq war itself, launched under false pretenses, conducted with stupefying incompetence, and escalated long after public support for it had evaporated, at the cost of scores of thousands of lives, nearly half a trillion dollars, and the crippling of America’s armed forces, which no longer overawe and will take years to rebuild."
Henrik Hertzberg paints a devastating portrait of Cheney in his Comment-piece in The New Yorker. Nothing new, perhaps, but it draws together some interesting strands - and probably reflect considerable thinking by many in the US. So, what is this Darksider bit and who is "the Angler?". Read full Hertzberg piece here.
Henrik Hertzberg paints a devastating portrait of Cheney in his Comment-piece in The New Yorker. Nothing new, perhaps, but it draws together some interesting strands - and probably reflect considerable thinking by many in the US. So, what is this Darksider bit and who is "the Angler?". Read full Hertzberg piece here.
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