David Brooks, who's one of the New York Times Conservative commentators, has an interesting view on the current arguments being made by people named Cheney. It's that the Bush administration went through two phases in its so-called "War on Terror." The first phase was reckless, confused, destructive to us and full of immoral acts. The second phase, he says, was more intelligent and moral and effective. And what Dick Cheney and his minions are doing now, sez Brooks, is attacking Obama for continuing and refining Bush's second phase.