Former Vice President Dick Cheney died on Monday at 84. In a nation whose vice presidents tend to be forgotten by history when they don’t go on to become presidents themselves, Cheney will go down as a history-maker who left his mark on the office.

His “One Percent Doctrine” proved his lasting legacy. It continues to govern the national security policy of the United States. It postulates that preemptive action is imperative to attack any danger that satisfies a 1% threshold of possibility calculated by an intelligence community predisposed to threat inflation, a policy that, after the Sept. 11 attacks, brought the United States to war in Iraq in search of weapons of mass destruction.

The One Percent Doctrine may have been Cheney’s brainchild. But the doctrine continues to inform the glob

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