Originally posted by red g jacks
dick cheney doesn't care about muslims nor religious pluralism... this is a purely political move... the republican establishment/karl rove and his minions will do anything to discredit trumpdon't get me wrong, i agree trump's plan is stupid. but **** if i am going to pretend to trust the sincerity of dick cheney and the lizardfolk
See, I kinda believe him. Think about Iraq for a moment- He was a big Neocon who supported the war, on the idea that after we kicked Saddam out, they'd all love us and greet us as liberators. Which then kinda evaporated as we didn't treat them all that nice and their country was still full of bomb holls, but I digress.
So, his ideology isn't "Muslims are bad," it's more along the lines of, "If we take out bad leaders in the region, we can get the people there to convert to capitalism and loving the US and rah rah rah!". They're potential recruits/allies, if only they can be shown how great we are.
His ideology has a lot of flaws, but it makes sense to me that this is his honest belief, and he honestly has major deep-down objections to this kind of thing.
(Btw, a minor note about cynicism on politicians- some cynicism makes sense, politicians are calculating after all, but it does pay to make note of what people say, because while some of it's calculated, just about every politician will include their real ideology in there, and will rarely say stuff they actively disagree with)