Dick Cheney warns next terror attack on U.S. will be ‘far deadlier’ than September 11 . . . Is he foreshadowing the event à la the cabal? ~J
- ‘I think 9/11 will turn out to be not nearly as bad as the next mass casualty attack against the United States,’ Cheney said
- The former vice president credited the increased odds of an attack to ‘the dramatic spread of terrorist organizations’ over the last several years
- He also defended the Bush administration’s aggressive anti-terrorism tactics: ‘I don’t think we have any apologies to make’
- Former Vice President Dick Cheney cautioned on Sunday that the next attack on the homeland will be ‘far deadlier’ than the last one.
- ‘We’re in a very dangerous period,’ Cheney told the Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol in a video interview released on Sunday. ‘I think it’s more threatening than the period before 9/11.
- ‘I think 9/11 will turn out to be not nearly as bad as the next mass casualty attack against the United States, which, if and when it comes, will be with something far deadlier than airline tickets and box cutters,’ he continued.
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Cheney: Next attack on US will dwarf 9/11
Cheney credited the increased odds of an
attack to ‘the dramatic spread of terrorist organizations’ over the last
several years and the ‘proliferation’ of areas where terrorists can
find safe haven.
All the U.S. had to worry about before
9/11 was Afghanistan, he said. Now the U.S. faces significant threats
from terrorist cells in Mali, Nigeria, and all of North Africa up
through the middle East to Indonesia.
The former George W. Bush administration
official acknowledged that ‘some of the decisions’ his boss made were
controversial and still are now, six years later, the administration’s
methods were effective at ‘preventing another mass casualty attack on
the U.S.’
‘I don’t think we have any apologies to make,’ Cheney said.
‘I think in a similar situation today, I would do exactly the same thing,’ he stated.
Not citing the sitting president, Barack
Obama, by name, Cheney suggested that his unwillingness to engage Middle
Eastern countries militarily could prove detrimental to the U.S. and
the international community.
‘For us to look at that part of the world
and think we can hide behind our ocean, everything’s fine, that’s
crazy,’ he said. ‘You gotta be a fool to believe isolationist strategy
is the way to go.
‘We have no choice to be involved in that
part of the world, and if we’re not actively involved, some very bad
things are gonna happen,’ he added.
Cheney also listed a nuclear Iran, cuts to the military and Chinese hackers as worrisome threats to the U.S.
‘I think we’re entering a period of
considerable danger with the United States that relative to other
nations is weaker than we oughta be,’ he said.
‘What we need is strong leadership. We need a president and a Congress who understand the nature of the threat.
The retired politician expressed hope that
the U.S. ‘will rise to the occasion now as we did in the past’ during
World War I and World War II and warned that it’s ‘very important that
we do so.’
‘This is not the time for us to rest on
our laurels’ or cut defense budget he said, referring to Obama’s
reduction in the military’s size and scope.
Cheney did not indicate who he thought
would make a good replacement for Obama once he leaves office in early
2017, but he said America needs ‘somebody who will step up and remind
the world what the United States is capable of and demonstrate the
ability and willingness to do that.’
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