Few Good Men?

Andrew Sullivan's article about Dick Cheney reminded me of the 1992 Hollywood flick 'A Few Good Men'. Here's an excerpt:

So Cheney is reduced to asserting that what he did saved countless lives and averted many plots. He is reduced to asserting the same Manichean view of the world that gave us Guantanamo, Bagram and the Iraq war: fighting terrorism is “a tough mean, dirty, nasty business”, he told Polit-ico, an American political website. “These are evil people. And we’re not going to win this fight by turning the other cheek.”

and here's a dialogue of Col. Jessep (played by Jack Nicholson):

Son, we live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lieutenant Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago and curse the Marines; you have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives and that my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives...

Dick Cheney/Bush must be feeling just like Col. Jessep when people criticize them for torturing and wire tapping.