Some people. Some people you just can't please.
In Politico's almost ineluctable, front-page juxtaposition there sits one story in which President Obama's U.N. speech is compared to the brawling rhetoric of W.'s speechwriting firm of Thiessen, Gerson & Frum, and just inches away there sits another story in which Dick Cheney--speaking to, who else, Sean Hannity--is furious over Obama's reference to ... Ferguson, Mo.
I was stunned.... There’s no comparison to that with what ISIS is doing to thousands of people throughout the Middle East through bloody beheadings of anybody they come in contact with. To compare the two as though there’s moral equivalence there, I think, is outrageous.
Short of the American Third Army washing over Raqqa, Cheney is getting most everything he wants. The U.S.-led air coalition is distressingly top-heavy; the war is being conducted on executive authority alone; the White House is ramping up near-apocalyptic rhetoric against a markedly dubious threat to U.S. national security; we're now openly committed to a prolonged campaign; and the sinkhole of that latter condition eerily invites the eventual introduction of that absent Third Army.
For Cheney, this ghastly situation is--or at least should be--evocative of George Costanza's memorable outburst to Seinfeld: "Do you ever get down on your knees and thank God you know me and have access to my dementia?" But that, however twisted, would for Cheney be a sign of graciousness. Can't have that. Instead, attack.