Sensitivity Training

Poor, poor Dick "F@*! You" Cheney.

It's not enough that he's insensitive to the high-minded ideals and traditions of civil conduct embodied in of the Rules of the Senate.

Now, it turns out, he's insensitive to the way his boss wants to wage war

But Cheney told an audience of about 1,000, "America has been in too many wars for any of our wishes, but not a one of them was won by being sensitive. A ‘sensitive war’ will not destroy the evil men who killed 3,000 Americans. . . . The men who beheaded Daniel Pearl and Paul Johnson will not be impressed by our sensitivity.

"Those who threaten us and kill innocents around the world do not need to be treated more sensitively. They need to be destroyed."

Is this just another example of a Bush administration flip-flop? Or is Cheney genuinely out of the loop regarding how Bush, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Tommy Franks, Richard Meyers, et al want to run the war?

Bush's war cabinet at least talks about sensitivity. Did Cheney not get the memo?

Hard to know the truth since Cheney's odd rhetoric fits so well with the new campaign strategy that relies on a weird vascillation between flip flopping and being out of touch.

(Via Kevin Drum)