Vice President Dick Cheney was not injured in the attack near Baghram Air Base, for which Diogenes thinks we might be pleased. The Taliban, who sent the suicide bomber, stated that they did so exactly because Dick Cheney was there. The attack did no damage to the base, and Cheney was never in any danger. However a US soldier died, along with an American contractor and more then 20 Afghans.
Mr. Cheney is in Afghanistan – and all over Asia – exactly because it would be very embarrassing for him to be in his usual place. Washington is where the jury is out in the case of I Lewis Libby, former Chief of Staff to the VP.
Mr. Libby and Mr. Cheney were among those responsible for taking US forces out of Afghanistan at a time when we could have won the Afghan war. As General Grant observed, winning is not about taking territory, it is about destroying the enemy’s army.
We failed to do that in Afghanistan. We took the troops to Iraq, but also failed to destroy the enemy’s army there, and created a civil war as well.
Another demonstration of people dying in order to float the rationale of the Right Wing Republicans.
