I hope Sullivan's right.

A recent blog post by Andrew Sullivan:

Isn't it telling that as Cheney spent Sunday morning attacking the president for not being serious about the war on terror (by which he seems to mean solely Obama's refusal to commit war crimes), Biden must have already known about the capture of Mullah Baradar? The administration could have blown Cheney out of the water, but, of course, chose not to.

Why?

Because they are serious about national security and do not put domestic political games before it. Unlike Cheney, who never wasted an opportunity to use a war to score political points at home. In the end, I believe this president's calm and sincere and determined efforts to keep this country safe and to defuse the appeal of Islamist terror will be better understood and appreciated. And that he has done so by adhering to American values will go a long way to repair some small part of the damage Cheney inflicted.

Oh, I really hope so. However, the sound of no hands clapping is always such a difficult thing to hear (about as difficult to hear as hands clapping inside a vacuum). True, it's classier to just go and do your job as opposed to playing terrorist-baiting politics. Yet, if the other side doesn't recognize class, then your efforts are all for naught.