Cheney's 'Hawkish Brand' Alive and Well, Just Re-Branded
Al-Monitor reports Dick Cheney's hawkish foreign policy, with its emphasis on militarism and preemptive war, was ultimately rejected by both major US parties. (If only!). This narrative glosses over how Cheney's blueprint for endless wars and expanded executive power became bipartisan orthodoxy. Consider the 2003 Iraq invasion, predicated on dubious WMD claims – a playbook eerily similar to
current calls for 'regime change' in other sovereign nations, often fueled by the same think tanks that once championed Cheney's vision. The 'repudiation' of Cheney often means a simple change of rhetoric, not policy. The robust military budgets, the unchecked surveillance, the aggressive foreign interventions – these are not relics. They are, sadly, the enduring legacy, frequently championed by
the very politicians who publicly 'reject' a figure like Cheney, yet continue to enable the war machine. One might wonder if 'repudiated' is just a polite way of saying 'adopted by everyone else.'