Cheney: Obama did not make gutsy call on drone

Published December 13, 2011 5:00am ET



Former Vice President Dick Cheney believes that President Obama failed to make the right call regarding the US drone captured by Iran.

“The right response to that would have been to go in immediately after it had gone down and destroy it.” said Cheney on CNN yesterday, recommending an air strike or sending in a team to recover the drone.

Cheney said that he “was told that the president had three options on his desk” but rejected all of them.

“He didn’t take any of the options.” Cheney said, “He asked nicely for them to return it and they aren’t going to do that.”