DICK CHENEY, YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTARD, THEY READ YOUR BOOK: Captives held by Islamic State were waterboarded. “Critics of waterboarding have said for years that the practice endangered Americans, putting them at risk that they will be subjected to the same brutal treatment at the hands of the enemy.”

Given that I expect something more along the lines of skinning and salt, or the Pear Of Anguish, from ISIS, waterboarding seems comparatively mild. But since the Evil United States did it, and every Right-Thinking Liberal on the planet condemned it, ISIS figures it’s the bee’s knees.

Who was thinking this far ahead? Dick Cheney, that’s who.