Retired Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson Rips Dick Cheney: He Isn't Immoral, He's Amoral

[kpete]

Wilkerson said that to many Americans, including those "interested in the progress of this country, the progress of international criminal justice, human rights, human dignity and so forth," Cheney is considered immoral. But Wilkerson has a different take.

"I think amoral is a better and more precise, descriptive term. With Dick Cheney, it's all about power. Yes, it's about wealth coming from that power, too -- he's worth $70 million or $80 million now, so one can hardly say that's not the case -- but I think the power aspect of it ... is more important to him than the amassing of wealth," Wilkerson said.

He added that an amoral person makes for "a more dangerous individual" than an immoral one.

"Immorality is something that can be ferreted out, checked and balanced. Amorality is an altogether different affair, especially when you're exploiting the politics of fear in order to carry out state purposes, which is what Dick Cheney's forte is," he said.


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a·mor·al
adjective
lacking a moral sense; unconcerned with the rightness or wrongness of something.
"an amoral attitude to sex"
synonyms: unprincipled, without standards, without morals, without scruples, unscrupulous, Machiavellian, unethical More

[genwah]

1. Yay for proper English, of which this sentence is not. Immorality is a judgement call more often

than not measured against societal norms. Amorality may be something we can diagnose.

[Siwsan]

2. One of the worst arguments I've ever had with my mother was over Cheney

She referred to him as one of the most HONORABLE men she'd ever seen. I almost lost my footing, and I was sitting, at the time! I finally gave up on the whole issue because her kool aid consumption had been going on for a long, long time and there was no reasoning with her.

One the up side, though, she thought Sarah Palin was UTTERLY unqualified to be VP. Which was about the only political issue we ever have agreed on.

[Uncle Joe]

3. This sounds right to me.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

[Cha]

4. Yeah, a real amoral sociopathic dick.

Thank you, Retired Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson!

[rhett o rick]

5. Wealth is a measure of power. The goal is always power. nm

[rhett o rick]

6. I find it a bit interesting that he is only worth $70 - 80 million while the Clintons

are worth almost that and they were flat broke in 2000. Something doesnt add up.

[grasswire]

7. agreed

that tripped for me, too. I bet he has significantly more.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. This is what I hoped for Cheney.

I wanted him to live long enough to realize that history will remember him as a vile, festering pustule that should never have been given the reigns of leadership.

[rhett o rick]

10. I would love that, but the problem is, sociopaths never get it. nm

[Baitball Blogger]

12. At some point he will realize that he has become irrelevant.

That's how close we will ever hope to get.

[90-percent]

9. Good 'ole Larry

Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson is an almost extinct species; an honorable and forthright Republican firmly planted in the reality based community. He really got it wrong when his boss at the time Colin Powell catapulted the propaganda at the U.N. Which to me substantiates how hard it is for those insiders in the DC beltway Bubble to get real bona fide facts. I called it right back then when they got it wrong and I was just an average DU and internet user at the time.

-90% Jimmy

[G_j]

11. sounds like Kissinger

a common trait among war criminals..

[malaise]

13. No one knows the war criminal of a dick

better than Wilkerson - he nailed it.

[Octafish]

14. Don't like the Colonel's politics. Do respect his integrity.

Which is what the nation needs in its leaders.