That's all, folks

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That's all, folks
by P.M. Carpenter | May 13 2007

The only thing lacking from Dick Cheney's Persian Gulf appearance aboard the USS John C. Stennis was the Warner Bros. cartoon theme song as a musical introduction, for this pathetic blusterer has finally become the Yosemite Sam of U.S. foreign policy, if I may be so charitable as to label the hapless presentation of the Bush administration's international conduct as "policy."

On the darker side, the sight and sound of Mr. Cheney aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier also had an Oscar Wilde touch to it -- a lugubrious, Dorian Gray portrait of superficial vim and vigor masking its true core of rotting, impotent corruption.

With Sam's six-guns metaphorically strapped to his waist, the vice president intoned: "Throughout the region our country has interests to protect and commitments to honor. With two carrier strike groups in the Gulf, we're sending clear messages to friends and adversaries alike. We'll keep the sea lanes open. We'll stand with our friends in opposing extremism and strategic threats. We'll disrupt attacks on our own forces. We'll continue bringing relief to those who suffer and delivering justice to the enemies of freedom."

Just who was it that Mr. Cheney thought he was spooking? Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? His Iranian brothers? "Extremist adversaries" at large? No doubt that was his intent, but no man has so singlehandedly and thoroughly reduced a one-time superpower to paper-tiger status in such short order as Mr. Cheney. And Mahmoud & Friends knows it.

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Never has one man contributed such thoughtlessness to "policy," such a lack of foresight, such a massive barrel over which to place us, as Mr. Cheney. Watching him drone on and on about muscular efforts we can neither afford to undertake or sustain -- muscular efforts of knock-out force, to us -- was more than the final insult. To those who comprehend just how sticky the wicket is that he and his boss have fashioned, it was a national embarrassment. The co-emperor could not have been more clotheless.

Still, his performances are entertaining in a perverse sort of way. If only he'd add the Warner Bros. theme, they'd be complete.
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I keep waiting for the ending credits to run and we can all get out of our seats and go back to reality.