Dick Cheney is mad…and rightly so.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday that the Obama administration will “raise the risk” of a terrorist attack by overhauling his predecessor’s approach to the War on Terror.
Cheney sharply criticized Obama’s decisions to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, limit the methods CIA officers use to interrogate terror suspects and suspend military tribunals for alleged terrorists, saying those decisions taken together will make Americans less safe.
And he warned that the administration was transitioning to a pre-9/11 mindset that views terrorism as a “law enforcement problem” and not a military threat.
“When you go back to the law enforcement mode, which I sense is what they’re doing … they are very much giving up that center of attention and focus that’s required, and that concept of military threat that is essential if you’re going to successfully defend the nation against further attacks,” Cheney said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Obama and his crew are naive. They do not understand the threat that radical Islam poses to this country. I pray that their lack of understanding does not lead to the deaths of more Americans.
This is a post-9/11 world. Acting like it is September 10th, 2001 does not make it so, and Obama needs to wake up quickly and realize this. We exist under a constant threat of terrorism. If he lets our guard down for just a moment (by, say, treating this as a law enforcement problem instead of a war), the terrorists will strike again.
Like or hate George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, but no one can argue against the fact that they kept this country safe for eight years. Dear Leader now seeks to undo all the progress the previous administration made in national security.
Obama would to be wise to heed Cheney’s words. I highly doubt he will, however.
