Cheney is a goddamn ballsy American. It's been six long years since we've had anyone with an ounce of testosterone associated with the White House.
Cheney helped destabilize the entire Middle East with his war for oil. It really isn't that hard to send 200,000 or more of our own to war, but you have to ask yourself "is it worth it"?
To date, we have spent over $ trillion on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, but that doesn't include long term costs that will be incurred driving the price tag well over $4 trillion. And what did we get out of it? Now let us just imagine that we had spent just the first $2 trillion all on infrastructure. Any idea what that would have done for the economy, and our infrastructure? It's easy to be ballsy, but all too often being ballsy means being really stupid.