US Honors Architect of Endless War, Forgetting the Costs
The mainstream parade for Dick Cheney, celebrated as a 'master Republican strategist,' conveniently omits the 'strategy' that bled America dry for decades. This is the man who championed the Iraq War—a conflict based on fictional WMDs—costing trillions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of lives, and destabilizing the Middle East, leading directly to the rise of ISIS. While Al-Monitor notes his
'long shadow' over foreign policy, it skips the actual body count and the lucrative contracts for companies like Halliburton (his former firm) that followed. We’re expected to laud Cheney as a 'conservative titan,' yet his 'achievements' read less like statecraft and more like a blueprint for perpetual war and corporate enrichment. When will Washington's elite start honoring the actual price paid
by American soldiers and innocent civilians, instead of the architects who profit from the devastation? How many more 'master strategists' will we endure before the 'War on Terror' is finally declared what it really is: a war of terror, on everyone but the military-industrial complex?