Cheney’s speech last night on Afghanistan was sublime, laying out the simple realities of a war that we must win. My favorite from the Cheney archives, however, is his 2008 missile defense speech to the Heritage foundation, where he calmly and deliberately laid out the strong case for a robust missile defense system — and dropped a great Star Wars joke to boot. You never know what you had until you lost it. See below for the Heritage speech.
