if he were present, Mecca would have been a smoldering crater soon aftyer 9/11, and the jihad vermin would turbanated..
“Mecca would have been a smoldering crater soon after 9/11”
You’re free to project what you want onto the Vice President, but the Cheney I see is not one to do something so enlarging as to destroy Mecca.
That would take it from war against Jihadists to war on every man, woman and child of Muslim belief.
Every Muslim ally of America, every American Muslim would become our mortal enemy.
The duty would become to kill every Muslim if they failed to renounce their religion.
The Cheney I see is not a conflict-enlarging, rash individual.
He knew how to deal with it. INTEL. He got information from al-qaeda on al-qaeda. He went after the targets on the battlefield. Drones and other means bombed the crap out of high value targets. In many ways he adopted Israel’s policy of no mercy on the very guys who carry out terror against them. And He knew how to enlarge the battlefield in the Middle East such as in Iraq.
When I say “he”, understand that he was not President. George W Bush gave those orders and set that policy.
Where they probably differed was it wasn’t Cheney going out of his way to compliment some aspects of Islam, as the President did.
But prosecuting war against the Jihadists was something they did TOGETHER. It could not have been otherwise.
Obliterating Mecca after 9/11?
Not Cheney.
Not even close.