President George W. Bush and President-elect Barack Obama meet in the Oval Office of the White House Monday, Nov. 10, 2008. White House photo by Eric Draper From The Telegraph:
Dick Cheney claims that President Obama is "harming America" by dismantling the Bush administration's policies on terror. But the strange thing is that, in fact, Mr Obama is not dismantling them, says Alasdair Palmer.
President Obama is charismatic, graceful and reasonable. Dick Cheney is a maniac. So when they disagree, as they did very publicly last week, about America's strategy for the "war on terror", there can only ever be one winner. Who would side with the snarling Mr Cheney? He advocates targeted assassination, indefinite detention without trial, rendition and torture – policies that are, as President Obama insists, "inconsistent with American values".
Or are they? Mr Cheney claims that President Obama is "harming America" by dismantling the Bush administration's policies on terror. But the strange thing is that, in fact, Mr Obama is not dismantling them. To an amazing extent, he has followed them.
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My Comment: It is still too early to say that President Obama is "following" President Bush's line on terror. The partial release of the torture memos, calls to prosecute the lawyers involved in drafting the legal basis for torture, (as a result) the destruction of morale in our intelligence services as a result .... the determination to close Guantanamo, using U.S. law to try terrorists captured on foreign soil .... these are not President Bush's policies.
A better determination of the path that President Obama is following will need some time .... but from my point of view, President Obama has made it very clear that he is following a different path, and I will give him the benefit of the doubt that he is saying the truth.
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