Le mot juste pour Cheney

Robert Scheer in The Nation pinpoints the character of the human being responsible for what could go down in history as the U.S.’s most degenerate, most hostile period ever, offering:

“Cheney stands brightly revealed as the main culprit in cherry-picking the evidence to make the case for a stupid, failed war. He has been exposed as a vindictive, inflexible ideologue, who attempts to destroy all who publicly disagree with him, such as former Ambassador Joseph Wilson and Wilson’s CIA agent wife, Valerie Plame Wilson. His extensive ties and loyal political service to energy and defense companies such as Halliburton (which now, in a burst of honesty, is moving its headquarters to Dubai), reveal him to be a man of deep corruption……..The argument for troop withdrawal is that, after four years of occupation, the presence of US troops on every street corner in Baghdad is part of the problem, not the solution. As the French learned in Algeria, the Russians in Afghanistan and the Israelis in the Palestinian territories, foreign occupation is the mother’s milk of terrorism. It is thus Cheney who has played right into Al Qaeda’s plans, heightening tension between the US and the Arab and Muslim worlds by evoking an image of US imperial conquest of Mideast oil resources. His palpable disdain for civil liberties, bald-faced lies and support for torture have even tarnished the reputation of democracy itself, which has to please tyrants and theocrats everywhere.”