Pelosi and her Democratic colleagues continue to pursue nonproliferation based on ideological litmus tests rather than universal law-based principles.
"Our institutions are based on ideological, sectarian and ethnic foundations.
"In this way, the group attracts supporters based on ideological and political appeal.
Mr. Cardenas dismissed the notion that Mr. McDonnell's absence was based on ideological considerations.
"Just based on ideological reasons, the two countries seem unable to resolve their problems".
Backing the Assad regime is not based on ideological or moral convictions, but on pure power politics.
What courts should not do is second-guess legislative judgments that are well-within Congress's proper authority, based on ideological or policy differences.
He also brought a generation of doctrinaire conservatives into the bureaucracy and the courts, making appointments based on ideological tests that only a genuine movement leader would impose.
Speaking at a conference earlier this year, David Kilcullen, the chief counterterrorism strategist at the U.S. State Department, highlighted the tendency of extremist movements to fragment into splinter groups based on ideological differences.
"I have no sympathy for the voices of those who make lame excuses for the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon based on ideological or historical circumstances.
These reminded him, he said, of "certain episodes from the history of the Soviet Union," when "attempts to push for changes within other countries based on ideological preferences often led to tragic consequences and to degradation rather than progress".
