Cheney is fighting not Obama but his own, long-lost battles.

By Fred Kaplan
Slate.com
Posted Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010

It's time for respectable news networks to stop asking Dick Cheney to come on their shows.

Cheney proved the point himself in a Valentine's Day interview on ABC's The Week. His interlocutor, Jonathan Karl, handed him the rope, but it was the former vice president who—displaying a remarkable lack of self-awareness—tied the noose, looped it around his neck, and jumped through the floorboards.

The occasion for the appearance was this remark that Cheney had made three days earlier: "It is clear once again that President Obama is trying to pretend that we are not at war."

Karl asked Cheney to explain himself, given that Obama had sent more troops to Afghanistan and stepped up drone attacks against militias in Pakistan.

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