Dick Cheney’s new memoirs will be out very soon. They include some insights about the disagreements between President Bush and his vice-president.

George W. Bush, at the end of his presidency, was a broken man. His reputation and popularity in America and all around the world were at a low. It is incontestable that Dick Cheney was the driving force behind many of Bush’s hard line actions. At the end of the day, however, history will remember George W. Bush — not Dick Cheney — as the invader of Iraq, the instigator of torture of terrorist suspects, and enabler of secret CIA prisons.

The remorse of President Bush was visible in the last year of his presidency. Meanwhile, his vice president didn’t show any regrets for their actions. President Bush certainly believed that he had the best team to help him to govern. My grand mother would say, watch out with whom you hang out. The general impression is that President Bush, at some point, was the hostage of his entourage (the neoconservatives). As the Oromo of Ethiopia say, “Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.”