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What Cheney is celebrating and defending is their flimsy, flailing domestic response to the escalating effects of his administration's reckless, destabilizing, enduring military deployments abroad. There is little evidence that any of their anti-democratic, anti-constitutional constructions actually prevented any attack on our nation. Yet, it has become tragically clear that Bush/Cheney's military posture and their self-righteous directing of 'shock and awe' across sovereign borders has had the effect of fostering more individuals resorted to violent expressions of the self-determination and sovereignty the administration postured to promote and defend.

In reversing several tenants of the Bush/Cheney constructions - like the effort to close Guantanamo and torture/detention policy changes - the Obama administration has already begun to receive expressions of approval and support from influential figures in the Middle East, Asia, and from around the world. While it would be ridiculously naive to expect the same disarming response from all fugitives, Jihadists, or any other committed combatants, there is a very real prospect of lessening the animosity abroad toward the U.S. by making clear our intention to back away from Bush's imperialistic military expansionism across their borders.

The disengagement of our military from Bush's nation-building follies may not be met with an outpouring of flowers and candy at our retiring backs, but it will allow the authorities we expect to manage the region (outside of our docent influence) to operate without any threatening tinge of corruption from associations with our aggravating forces.

The tragic reality that Bush/Cheney's military constructions in Iraq and Afghanistan were poisonous, destabilizing failures. Their anti-democratic, anti-constitutional grabs for power and authority were counterproductive appeasements to the terrorists' violence. That reality will not be transformed by revisionism, lies . . . nor, by cynical, treasonous warnings of further catastrophic attacks if we dare to dismantle them.

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Ron Fullwood, is an activist from Columbia, Md. and the author of the book 'Power of Mischief' : Military Industry Executives are Making Bush Policy and the Country is Paying the Price

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