I am sure that absolutely everyone has heard the back and forth between ex- VP Cheney and Obama and his Boyz.  But what is Cheney doing?  What is he up to with the debate?

No body knows for sure what he is doing, but I can tell you the Niccolo Machiavelli would be proud of him and his words and actions.  In his book the Prince he wrote that a wise politician will lie and break promises if it is politivally advantageous to do so.  He also said that a people are more concerned with security thatn the moral make-up of the government.

I would say the Cheney is doing pretty well so far at putting Machiavelli’s principles into motion.  Machiavelli also observed that politics follows its own logic, foolows its own rules, and judges acions in accordance with its own standards of success and failure.  I would say that Cheney is doing fairly well here also.

As Obama and Cheney trade barbs, Cheney is the one showing a strong Machiavellian tendency and that deviations from a strict moral code is sometimes necessary to achieve a higher political “good”.  In this case the goal is to keep America safe from another terrorist  attack.