Brief but pointed comments coming from former Vice President Dick Cheney in this AP report:
On foreign policy matters, Cheney declined to weigh in on surveillance activities by the National Security Agency, saying he hadn’t been regularly briefed in five years.
He expressed skepticism that the Obama administration would be able to force Iran to comply with demands that it show its nuclear program is peaceful. Asked if military action against Iran was “inevitable,” Cheney said he had “trouble seeing how we’re going to achieve our objective short of that.”
Cheney faulted the Obama White House’s handling of Middle East politics, saying the U.S. presence in the region had been “significantly diminished” in recent years. “I think our friends no longer count on us, no longer trust us and our adversaries don’t fear us,” he said.
And then there's this devastating report aired last night on CBS' 60 Minutes, a report that gives substance to the notion that our adversaries no longer fear us:
The end of this administration's reign will not come soon enough.
