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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Cheney: If You Wanted a President 'To Take America Down … It Would Look
Exactly Like What Barack Obama’s Doing'
'The Worst President We've Ever Had'
9:13 AM, Apr 8, 2015 • By DANIEL HALPER
Vice President Dick Cheney had harsh criticism for President Barack Obama in
an interview last night with radio host Hugh Hewitt.
Hewitt asked the former vice president, "Is he naïve, Mr. Vice
President? Or does he have a far-reaching vision that only he entertains of
a realigned Middle East that somehow it all works out in the end?"
"I don’t know, Hugh. I vacillate between the various theories I’ve heard,
but you know, if you had somebody as president who wanted to take America
down, who wanted to fundamentally weaken our position in the world and
reduce our capacity to influence events, turn our back on our allies and
encourage our adversaries, it would look exactly like what Barack Obama’s
doing. I think his actions are constituted in my mind those of the worst
president we’ve ever had."
Cheney made the case to Hewitt that Obama has changed the previously held
bipartisan foreign policy consensus:
Obama [sound bite]: Any president who gets elected will be knowledgeable
enough about foreign policy and knowledgeable enough about the traditions
and precedents of presidential power that they won’t start calling into
question the capacity of the executive branch of the United States to enter
into agreements with other countries. If that starts being questioned, that
’s going to be a problem for our friends, and that’s going to embolden our
enemies. And it would be a foolish approach to take, and you know, perhaps
Mr. Walker, after he’s taken some time to bone up on foreign policy, will
feel the same way.
Hewitt: Vice President Cheney, you’ve been boning up on foreign policy
since you entered the House 30 years ago. What do you make of that statement
?
Cheney: Well, it starts from a flawed presumption on Obama’s part. For
most of the last 70 years since World War II, we’ve had a bipartisan accord
in this country between Democrat and Republican, Harry Truman, Jack Kennedy
, Lyndon Johnson, Ronald Reagan, Dwight Eisenhower, the Bushes, believed
that America had to play a leading role in the world, that we needed to
maintain a first class military capability to do that, and occasionally use
it, that the world works best with U.S. leadership. The first president,
really, who doesn’t, no longer believes that fundamental truth, is Barack
Obama. And what he’s saying in his criticism of Governor Walker I think
probably Governor Walker welcomes. It’s almost like a paid commercial. I
heard today that as soon as the statement came out from Obama criticizing
the Governor, he immediately sent out letters to all of his supporters. I’m
glad he did that. I think it’s a mark of the weakness of this president
that he’d say such a thing.
And Cheney suggested that Iran is not an honest broker for a nuclear deal.
Hewitt: So Mr. Vice President, you dealt with Iran a lot both as
Secretary of Defense, and eight years as Vice President. Do they strike you
as a practically minded and responsive regime?
Cheney: Absolutely not, Hugh. This is the most, one of the most radical
regimes in history, headed up by the mullahs who believe in a very, sort of,
I think, twisted version of the Koran, who are sworn to destroy Israel, who
always have these big meetings. They did just this week, because they were
negotiating in Geneva, shouting Death To America. This is a totally radical
regime that is the premiere sponsor of state terrorism in the world, and
Obama’s about to give them nuclear weapons. It’s, I can’t think of a more
terrible burden to leave the next president than what Obama is creating
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