The Rittenhouse Review

A Philadelphia Journal of Politics, Finance, Ethics, and Culture


Monday, February 27, 2006  

QUOTE OF THE WEEK
Bunker Mentality

Lawrence Wilkerson, retired Army colonel, one-time chief of staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell, discussing the sitting vice president in "Colonel of Truth," by Mark Follman, published today at Salon (subscription or free day pass required):

I don't know Dick Cheney as intimately as [Brent] Scowcroft does, but I did see him as secretary of defense and now as vice president. I can tell you that 9/11 made him a paranoid, to the extent where I'm not sure his exercise of power carries with it reason.

(For an interesting take on the subject of the increasingly odd mind-set of the Bush White House, see "Bush in a Bubble: Is He Cut Off from Political Reality?" by political analyst Dick Polman in today's edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer.)

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