Everyone says there's a war of ideas out there, and I agree. The sad fact is that we're on the wrong side, |
It has become a cliche to say that Dick Cheney is the most powerful vice president in American history. Nonetheless, here is a prediction: When the historians really get digging into the paper entrails of the Bush administration -- or possibly when Scooter Libby goes on trial -- those who have intoned that phrase will still be astonished at the extent to which the Office of Vice President Dick Cheney was the center of power inside the White House -- and at the grip it had on foreign and defense policy. |
It's been fairly disastrous, |
The protests were entirely to be expected. The Pakistanis know the U.S., if it gets high-quality intelligence, is going to act. |
The war on terror is going to get tougher and tougher the longer this kind of thing goes on. We're going to pay a big price for allowing these unwanted side effects and stories in the war on terror to pile up. |
They realize we are very unnerved by this. . . . I see the spread of it as a tactic as an indication of the strength of the ideology for Muslim radicals, |
This is their way of saying they are much more determined than we are, ... The Age of Sacred Terror. |
You got me. That was the understanding in the White House and the intelligence community. The story ran and the lights went out. |