Keep America Safe
Qahir Al-Ashrar
By Scott Horton
October 14, 2009 "Harpers" -- If you enjoy fear-mongering, here�s a
not-for-profit organization for you: Keep America Safe. William Kristol and
Liz Cheney are the dynamic duo behind it. Cheney is just off a Sunday talk
show appearance in which she explained that awarding the Nobel Peace Prize
to the president of the United States�a decision that coincides with new
polls showing America suddenly resurgent as the most admired nation in the
world�actually reflects the loss of American leadership and a disdain for
America. That was just a taste of the Bizarro World that also appears in a
video issued by Keep America Safe. It appears to be stitched together from
segments broadcast by Fox News, few of which stand up to fact-checking. (For
instance, it suggests that Obama has stripped the defense budget, when in
fact this year�s budget is $40 billion larger than last year�s. Charles
Krauthammer tells us Obama hasn�t decided what to do about Afghanistan. In
fact, Obama has already rejected the idea of a draw-down, so the only
question that his team is deliberating is how large the new contingent of
troops will be. That contrasts with the Bush-Cheney team, which received a
comparable appeal for more troops from its Afghanistan commanders in April
2008, and decided to ignore it.) So, considering that the major departures
Obama has made from Bush strategy actually involve more robust use of the
military�especially in Afghanistan and in the Pakistani border region�what
is it that Obama has done that makes America unsafe?
I�d reduce the real purpose of Keep America Safe to this: �Please don�t
prosecute my father!� It�s increasingly clear that Dick Cheney was the
author of the Bush-era torture policies, and my hunch is that when the
Justice Department releases the OPR report on the torture memos, we�re going
to find more evidence of the invisible hand of Dick Cheney behind the whole
project. Any fair-minded federal prosecutor looking into the matter would
shortly be preparing to do what Patrick Fitzgerald probably wishes now he
had done: indict Dick Cheney.
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