was a one-off event, coordinated, devastating but also unique and not sufficient to justify a sustained wartime effort. but in the fight against terrorism, there is no middle ground, and half measures keep you half exposed. >> and on the day after president obama told the country osama bin laden had been captured and killed, actually killed, abc's jonathan carl interviewed cheney. let's listen. >> are we safer now? >> i think so, but it's a kind of situation where we need to preserve our sense of vigilance, if you will. we need to stay just as vigilant as we have been. >> let me go back to david. i mean, this is an important transition from cheney-ism to obama-ism. obama's fighting the war because we have to fight it because it's something we can handle and also be americans at the same time. cheney saw it as an all encompassing reality he stepped into and wasn't actually upset with being in. he seemed to be at home in it.