Cheney: war will never end

In this article about a visit by Cheney to support Tom DeLay's write-in replacement on the ballot in Texas, Dick Cheney said this to some troops:

"If we can learn anything from modern experience it is this: The only way to protect this country from terrorism is to stay on the offensive," Cheney told the soldiers, many of whom face redeployment to Iraq later this month. "Pursue the enemy until there's no place left to hide. Stay in the fight until the fight is won."

In other words: We are willing to start wars anywhere we decide terrorists are hiding, and to this war there will be no end.

That's the only future the Republicans can see, isn't it? Endless war. Orwell had it right.