Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

To the Editor:

Re “Cheney Says Obama Has Increased Risks” (news article, March 16):

I have to give former Vice President Dick Cheney credit: his hypocrisy still makes my jaw drop, even after all these years. If we are indeed attacked by terrorists again, I hope we’re smart enough to realize that actions that caused additional millions to hate us were more likely a cause than were President Obama’s steps to bring us back to our own Constitution.

We’d have to see through self-serving, legacy-embellishing people like Mr. Cheney, but we should be pretty good at that by now.

DAN CARSEN
Birmingham, Ala., March 16, 2009

Note from KBJ: This letter is breathtaking in its audacity. The letter writer is blaming George W. Bush for, and thereby absolving President Obama of responsibility for, any future terrorist attacks. Does that mean George W. Bush gets credit if we are not attacked? With progressives, it's always "heads I win, tails you lose." By the way, we were hated in the Muslim world long before George W. Bush took office. Blaming him for the hatred is like blaming him for bad weather.