Dick Cheney claims that President Obama is "harming America" by dismantling the Bush administration's policies on terror. But the strange thing is that, in fact, Mr Obama is not dismantling them, says Alasdair Palmer.

President Obama is charismatic, graceful and reasonable. Dick Cheney is a maniac. So when they disagree, as they did very publicly last week, about America's strategy for the "war on terror", there can only ever be one winner. Who would side with the snarling Mr Cheney? He advocates targeted assassination, indefinite detention without trial, rendition and torture – policies that are, as President Obama insists, "inconsistent with American values"...

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