Mariana Musings (10-26-09)

Dick Cheney recently said words, so you know it was a bucketful of stupid. CNN described his sentiments as “Obama has failed to give troops on the ground a clear mission or defined goals.” Maybe it’s just me, but I though that’s the shit you should have done before you started the war, numbnuts!

The aptly named Dick Cheney

Then he goes on to say this, and it’s not even a paraphrase, these are his actual words: “Make no mistake, signals of indecision out of Washington hurt our allies and embolden our adversaries.” What’s wrong with you, Obama?! Pelting our allies with your psychokinetic brainwaves of indecision!

OK, so maybe signals of indecision aren’t propagated by the president’s psychic powers. Maybe instead “signals of indecision” are propagated by multinational media conglomerates that just received word from one Dick Cheney that the president is “dithering” and “afraid to make a decision”?

Not that it matters how the fictional signals are propagated; Cheney’s thesis is bullshit. The president giving the appearance of indecision doesn’t hurt anyone, or make the terrorists any more motivated to kill us (they’re already willing to strap bombs to themselves, remember?). Besides, if Dick hates the terrorists so bad, then why does he expend so much energy worrying over how they feel about anything?