Jeff Smith: Will Memoir Improve Dick Cheney’s Image?

Sorry, but the die is cast here. Dick Cheney was the Bush administration’s most powerful proponent of a decade of failed wars of choice that cost our nation dearly in prestige, treasure, and most lamentably, blood. Two-thirds of the country strongly agrees with that sentiment.

He was the guy who argued that “deficits don’t matter” even as the tax cuts he relentlessly pushed exacerbated our already-difficult fiscal situation that every demographer (and most policymakers) understood would become perilous upon baby-boomer retirement.

In every major policy area in which he was involved, Dick Cheney was dead wrong – and many of his co-partisans actually agree with that assessment. If he thinks it will help him now to trash the people (I.e., Rice, Cheney) who at various junctures made rather ineffectual attempts to slow the train of destruction he conducted, he is sorely mistaken.

(Cross-posted, with permission of the author, from Politico’s Arena)