Echoes of the past from a narrow mind

Former vice president of the USA Dick Cheney has claimed that America is now more at risk because Obama has put a stop to the controversial interrogation methods used by the US intelligence services. What he fails to realise is that you don’t put out a fire by fanning the flames: those interrogation methods and the attitude they represent are the very reason that America was at risk in the first place. The West’s clumsy foreign policy throughout the years has provided the motives for attack. The terrorist nutcases would have been perfectly happy fighting amongst themselves had we not united them against us by interfering. By torturing suspects they are enraging young Muslims and driving them into the recruiting offices of Al Qaeda.