Our former vice-president weighs in with a statement to POLITICO:

Former Vice President Dick Cheney accused President Barack Obama on Tuesday of trying to pretend we are not at war with terrorists, pointing to the White House response to the attempted sky bombing as reflecting a pattern that includes banishing the term war on terror and attempting to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center.[W]e are at war and when President Obama pretends we arent, it makes us less safe, Cheney said in a statement to POLITICO. Why doesnt he want to admit were at war? It doesnt fit with the view of the world he brought with him to the Oval Office. It doesnt fit with what seems to be the goal of his presidency social transformation the restructuring of American society.

The past decade is all but gone, thankfully. Why is Dick still here?