"I think it was absolutely the right think to do," the
former vice president said yesterday on Face the Nation about
waterboarding and such. "I'm convinced, absolutely convinced that we saved
thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of lives."
That kind of certitude worries me, especially when he
goes on to say, a moment later, "No one then would have bet anything that
you're going to go eight years and no have another attack."
Actually, right off
the top of my head, I remember that Vernon Loeb, who in October 2001 sat next
to me at the Washington Post, and who now is a bigtime editor at the Philadelphia
Inquirer, said precisely that at the time: Al Qaeda isn't going to be able
to pull off another stunt like this for many years.
"No regrets," says the former vice president. Even
Frank Sinatra had a few. But then again, too few to mention.
(Btw, I think I was wrong last week about Cheney and disloyalty. I
now suspect he does have a notion of loyalty, but just a somewhat feudal
one -- that is, not to his party, but only to those who served him.)
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