Dick Cheney: 2010 terrorist of the year.

He is as evil as our enemy.

Dick Cheney is the thorn in the paw of our enemy. Nobody else is doing more to destroy our international relations than this anti-humanitarian.

Of course the usual if-pigs-could-fly crumb is tossed out:"Administration officials say that for several months they have been working on an economic development plan for Yemen with Saudi Arabia, Europe, the World Bank and others and expect to hold a meeting in six weeks to agree on a framework. They need to speed up the process." Sort of a repeat of the Somalia miracle we've been working on forever.

But in the meanwhile bring in the cavalry:"Washington is providing $70 million over the next 18 months to equip and train Yemeni security forces for counterterrorist operations. And it has provided targeting intelligence and additional firepower — possibly cruise missiles and drones — for attacks on Al Qaeda bases."

The relevance to Cheney is that the "mainstream" NYT is fully aligned with the Cheney doctrine. Screw the 23 million people in Yemen, screw the poverty, kiss the ass of the corrupt and repressive (and line their pockets), and by all means don't worry about collateral damage. Killing al Qaeda is all that matters.

I suspect that Obama would agree strongly with this editorial. Its the new American value system.

I have a hard time believing the claim that al qaeda recruits are drying up, just because cheney is receding into history. our policies have not changed sufficiently to make any difference on the ground in the M.E. or africa. or sw asia. we are now more active militarily in more countries than we were under cheney. Gaza is being walled up like a zoo. god knows what we're doing in yemen, or somalia, but it is clear we're doing something.

With that background, why on earth would it make sense that al qaeda recruitment would be drying up? I don't believe it.