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kleinbl00 · 3884 days ago · link · · parent · post: Dick Cheney is speaking at my work next week and I will be close enough to him to smell his breath. What in the hell could I possibly ask the man?
Many of the world's true villains are heroes with a mutually exclusive worldview. Some despots, some are insane... but I totally get where Dick Cheney is coming from. When Nixon was a mentor, Halliburton is your company and the PNAC are your drinking buddies, you're going to have a radically different perspective on the way the world works. That perspective is fundamentally flawed, in my opinion, but it's consistent. That's why neoconservatism was so pernicious.