Always at War – Dick Cheney: Warmonger, Neocon, Grandpa?
On this episode of Always at War, Courtney and Alex talk with Jim Lobe, contributing editor at Responsible Statecraft, about the life and legacy of Dick Cheney after his death this week at the age of 84.
Together, they unpack Cheney’s long and gruesome record, from working with Donald Rumsfeld to derail Kissinger’s strategy of detente with the Soviet Union, to helping the perpetrators of Iran-Contra get pardoned, to selling the catastrophic invasion of Iraq to the American people. Jim also helps situate Cheney within the broader conservative foreign policy movement, arguing that he is not a neoconservative himself, though he worked directly with the neocons to reshape U.S. foreign policy after the Cold War.
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