
On the eve of President Obama’s address to the nation about plans for an escalation of military action in Iraq, former Vice President Dick Cheney came to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to urge House Republicans to embrace a strong military and reject a rising isolationism in his party, but did not discuss the specifics of confronting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
Mr. Cheney, who was among the chief proponents of President George W. Bush’s decision to invade Iraq based on th