By Louise Radnofsky

Dick Cheney‘s back (again.)

The outspoken former vice president predicts in an interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity that trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York City will make the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks “as important or more important than Osama bin Laden.”

“He’ll be able to go in whenever he’s up on the stand and proselytize, if you will, millions of people out there around the world including some of his radical Muslim friends and generate a whole new generation of terrorists,” Cheney tells Hannity, according to highlights of the interview released by Fox News.

“I think it will make Khalid Sheikh Mohammed something of a hero in certain circles, especially in the radical regions of Islam around the world. It will put him on the map. He’ll be as important, or more important, than Osama bin Laden, and we will have made it possible.”

Fox News is owned by News Corp., which also owns Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal and WSJ.com.

The White House had no immediate comment on Cheney’s remarks.

Other things Cheney doesn’t like: President Barack Obama bowing to foreign leaders, and his “hesitation, uncertainty, lack of clarity” on Afghanistan. “There’s never been a nation like the United States of America in world history, and yet when you have a president who goes around and bows to his hosts and then proceeds to apologize profusely for the United States, I find that deeply disturbing. That says to me this is a guy who doesn’t fully understand or share that view of American exceptionalism that I think most of us believe in,” he says…