Joan Didion on Dick Cheney's Years of Magical Thinking

Don't know how we missed this for so long, but the New York Review of Books here has Joan Didion's excellent and deeply dark essay on Dick Cheney based on her reading of a solid bookshelf of Cheney and Iraq texts.

Although not as conclusive as we might like, at the end Didion seems to be suggesting that the course of the war in Iraq is what Cheney wanted, almost up until today. The suggestion that he carries an agenda of rolling back government to the point of massive contractor, with defense and inteligence primarily contracting to Haliburton, seems much more believable now that it would have even one year ago.

And her analysis of his deceptive language is perfect and chilling. Long, but very worthwhile.