Vice President Biden and his predecessor, Richard B. Cheney, engaged in a virtual debate Sunday that highlighted how little progress has been made over the past year -- and across consecutive administrations -- in resolving the central national security questions raised by the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and their aftermath.
Little of the recent debate between President Obama and congressional Republicans has risen beyond partisan talking points. But Cheney acknowledged Sunday on ABC's "This Week" that Obama is wrestling with the same questions the Bush administration faced over how to detain and try terrorist suspects, and in what venues.
Although he criticized Obama's decisions to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; prohibit torture in interrogation; and try high-profile terrorist suspects in civilian court, Cheney also characterized such decisions as "hard" and "tough," in a rare nod to the shades of gray that color the fight against Islamist extremism.
The truth is that they both have a point.
Biden and the Obamacrats ought to acknowledge that most of Iraq's stability right now is a direct result of the George Bush-implemented surge strategy from 07-08. For the current administration to claim the success in Iraq is like George I claiming credit for the wall coming down because it happened on his watch, with no other inputs.
For more on the Surge, check out this outstanding Surge Timeline
Cheney of the Darkness needs to admit that there's still a lot of fuzziness with individuals arrested for trying terror attacks, like Richard Reid. We (and by "we" I mean the Bush administration that created DHS) placed a civilian law enforcement organization in charge of the rules that these 'attackers' are violating, and to somehow hold them to different standards when being policed by the same office seems challenging, at best.
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