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The world doesn't tend to work in all or nothing terms. i think what the president was doing yesterday, i liked the word you used at the beginning, chris, was putting this in perspective. everything in life is often a balancing act. you could have -- we could go even further on security measures at airports and elsewhere than we have gone so far if you want to try to have more security. but we have to balance that against freedom and liberties and civil liberties. and cheney was basically arguing at aei, you go all out or it doesn't matter. yesterday it was interesting when obama started talki...

President obama told the country osama bin laden had been captured and killed, actually killed, abc's jonathan carl interviewed cheney. let's listen. >> are we safer now? >> i think so, but it's a kind of situation where we need to preserve our sense of vigilance, if you will. we need to stay just as vigilant as we have been. >> let me go back to david. i mean, this is an important transition from cheneyism to obamaism. obama's fighting the war because we have to fight it because it's something we can handle and also be americans at the same time. cheney saw it as an all encompassing reality h...

On september of 2003, the time when the wounds of 9/11 were still relatively fresh and the iraq war was just months old, cheney gave an infinite time line for the ridiculously named war on terror. let's listen. >> from our perspective, this is a continuing enterprise. >> well, in may of 2009, speaking at the american enterprise institute, this is really bringing coal to new castle, cheney remains stuck in his black and white view of the terrorist threat. incidentally, cheney began his speech moments after president obama finished his own speech defending his anti-terrorism policies. let's list...

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