Do you ever get the feeling he is paid very well by somebody for these opinions which fly in face of common sense and events we see happening before our eyes? I wonder.
No, I think he's a very sharp military mind, but one who is for some reason worried that he needs to show he's not as harsh a guy as his military guy would suggest. He seems to compensate for this by acting like a sensitive, Kumbaya singing hippie when the topic turns to Islam. Maybe he hopes it will take the edge off of his military ideas, and make them more palatable.