Vice President Joe Biden had an absolutely perfect response to Dick Cheney’s utterly predictable and entirely wrong foreign policy speech this week:

Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. had a blunt response on Friday to the latest broadsides from former Vice President Dick Cheney: “Who cares?”

Exactly so. The national security policy pursued during George W. Bush’s first term–when Cheney was, arguably, President for Foreign Policy–was the worst, most embarrassing, most counter-productive, in American history. The Administration’s refusal to allow Hamid Karzai negotiate a deal with Mullah Omar–when the Taliban leader was at his weakest and suing for mercy in December 2001–arguably is the reason why we have the Afghan mess on our hands today.

But Cheney’s spectacular and lethal cluelessness exemplifies another phenomenon, one that plagues journalists including, on occasion, me…