Reply #34: Typical simplistic nonsense from Mr. Hidey-Hole [View All]

[CBHagman]

Notice how Cheney hears the word "sensitive" and he can concentrate on nothing else, merely spewing Bush administration boilerplate about how evil our enemies are.

Why is it that the Bush administration seems to love to talk about beheading, rape, torture, etc.? They seem to positively get off on this, but I digress.

Anyway, if Cheney ever bothered to read the papers and/or the best-seller lists, he'd know there's a little tome called "Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror." The book, by an unnamed member of the CIA, puts the lie to the Bush notion that the terrorists "hate us for our freedoms." No, they hate us for our policies, and the administration would do well to understand the whole environment in which an Osama bin Laden can attract a following.

What scares me most about this administration is that they seem almost wilfully ignorant, as though they can't be bothered to study any situation in a complex fashion. They talk merely in platitudes and comparisons, and never fail to praise themselves as having done an excellent job. And as James Wolcott puts it, they're never sorry and they're never wrong.

Cheney's cute little sound bites may make him feel like a big man and make his listeners laugh, but the comments are ignorant, shallow and ultimately short-sighted. That someone that shallow and ignorant could "rise" this far is truly terrifying and dangerous.

And by the way, I just sent an e-mail to CNN regarding their coverage of this. I urge all of you to contact your media outlets about this knee-jerk response of Cheney's.