Alright, so many things have happened in one week. One story of interest this week is the "back and forth-ness" that is occurring between our former and current Vice President. There has essentially been a battle of the vice presidents on the Sunday talk shows if you haven't been watching. The former VP, Dick Cheney has been trading sharp criticism with talk shows about the Obama administration. He accused them of being slow to fight terrorism. Meanwhile, our current VP, Joe Biden, counters with accusations of Cheney's intent on "rewriting history."
Biden states that Cheney is ignoring all of the progress that Obama has made to weaken al Qaida. Cheney has since countered stating that Biden is "dead wrong" to state that another 9/11 type attack on the United States is unlikely to occur. He commented on the Obama administration's ideas to prosecute terror suspects in civilian courts, although that is exactly what Bush did with the "wannabe" shoe bomber, Richard Reid. Cheney has stated though that the war in Iraq certainly did protect America and American interests. Biden, on the reply, points out that shifting the focus from Iraq to Afghanistan and Pakistan is, in fact, more "successfully" fighting the war. But, these dueling VPs certainly didn't offer anything new. Just seemed like meaningless bickering on both of their ends. All this bickering, in my opinion, is not solving anything.
What are your opinions? Do you think that Cheney or Biden is right? Or do you think that this constant bickering is taking the focus from more important matters? Shouldn't we be focusing on a plan of action instead?
This is a good subject for your blog. I think you should also give your opinion, not just open it up for comments, though that's a good idea, too. There is a wordiness problem and some of it was not written tightly enough. I think self-editing is in order. By waiting a day and then reading what you wrote, you'll probably pick up, and be able to correct, many of these problems.
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