Why Are Congressional Republicans Taking Dick Cheney’s Advice On North Korea?

[Lasher]

Former vice president Dick Cheney reportedly issued a stern warning on North Korea to Congressional Republicans Tuesday, and in the process raised an important question: Why on Earth would anyone listen to Dick Cheney’s foreign policy advice?

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The notion that House Republicans would seek out Cheney’s counsel is rather mind boggling. Should a group with a pathetic 24 percent approval rating really be taking advice from a man who left office at a startling 13 percent?

It’s not as if Americans rejected Cheney for no reason. On almost every major foreign policy issue — including Iraq, Afghanistan, torture, climate change, and everything in between — Cheney pushed the Bush administration in often catastrophically wrong directions.

North Korea is no exception. As Fred Kaplan explained in a 2004 piece for Washington Monthly, the Bush administration entered the White House with the stage set for diplomatic progress — only to have the neoconservative foreign policy team shut down all negotiations. Kaplan singled out Cheney for resisting engagement, describing the vice president’s general position as “As long as the North Koreans were pursuing nuclear weapons, even to sit down with them would be ‘appeasement,’ succumbing to ‘blackmail,’ and ‘rewarding bad behavior.’”

http://www.nationalmemo.com/why-are-congressional-republicans-taking-dick-cheneys-advice-on-north-korea/

[Lil Missy]

1. Isn't he dead yet??

[Mopar151]

2. Why is Grover Norquist vetting the budget?

See, the first thing you gotta do is repudiate ANYTHING the President or the Dems say or do - if Obama says the sun rises in the East, it must really rise in the south, because Obama must be Wrong.

[Babel_17]

3. If Cheney was undergoing official scrutiny for his role in certain crimes

he wouldn't be as viable an option to be a go-to guy.

And so history recapitulates.