Liz Cheney pushed her father’s version of reality in the Wall Street Journal today. Dick Cheney is a crazy neocon paranoid moonbat, so it isn’t too surprising to see that Liz is also crazy.
The spark for her shpeel is that she didn’t like a speech Obama gave in Russia recently because it wasn’t sufficiently full of nonsensical black/white delineations between the USSR and USA during the Cold War.
Liz Cheney says:
The truth, of course, is that the Soviets ran a brutal, authoritarian regime. The KGB killed their opponents or dragged them off to the Gulag. There was no free press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of worship, no freedom of any kind.
One wonders how Liz could possibly have managed to miss the fact that her father, as Vice President of the United States, spread lies to invade Iraq under false pretenses. Could Liz possibly not know that her father approved a torture program that dragged people off to black site Gulags (Guantanamo, Bagram, and Abu Graib) without due process and tortured them for months and sometimes years. Could Liz possibly not know that her own father was behind the massive wiretapping scheme that violated the civil rights of innocent Americans?
Later on, Liz says:
America was an unmatched force for good in the world during the Cold War.
Could Liz possibly not be aware of America’s hand in “Operation Ajax” during the Cold War? Does she not know the CIA was behind overthrowing the democratically elected government of Iran in 1953 and installing the brutal dictator, the Shah, who had his own secret police and Gulags? Is she ignorant of how America kept the Shah in power for a quarter century, until 1979, even as the Shah expanded his torture prisons?
Is she completely clueless? Or is she willfully ignoring the facts? Or is she totally aware of the facts and yet manages to believe a black-and-white version of reality that only exists in the insane minds of neocon nutjobs?
Liz then finishes her article with an interesting strawman. She portrays Obama’s approach as nothing more than an attempt to make America appear meek and mild and inoffensive to our enemies. This couldn’t be further from the truth.
What Obama is doing is applying a little honesty to history and to international relationships. America has clearly NOT been the white knight who does no wrong, while America’s enemies such as the USSR during the cold war are purely black hearted devils.
No, what Liz can’t seem to wrap her mind around is that an honest reporting of history means that she must give up her America-is-perfect-and-everyone-else-is-evil-incarnate version of history. And what Liz has done is argue that the world should continue her fantasy, black and white, version of history, and to portray anything that represents the realities of history as the shades of grey that they are as making America “weak” and bowing to our enemies to make ourselves look “inoffensive”.
There is no weakness in honesty. There is great weakness in dishonesty.
And in that, Liz and her father are some of the weakest individuals in America.
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