Same Old Perle Before the Same Old Swine
Men of like mind to Richard N. Perle have made many wreckages in the history of America and gone on to comfortable retirement, while lesser criminals spend their lives in prison.
It is the legacy of Perle’s particular and confrontational brand of political world-view, that we are left with the unproductive isolation of Cuba, our disastrous meddling in Vietnam and a preposterous taking of credit (in Ronald Reagan’s name) for the wheels coming off of communism in 1989.
Perle himself was deeply involved at Rumsfeld's elbow in the quite proper Afghan punishment for harboring al Qaeda, proving that even a philosophically blinded neocon can find an occasional acorn. Then he reverted to form, lost focus on Afghanistan at exactly the wrong moment and encouraged Secretary Rumsfeld to widen the military scope into the disaster that has become Iraq.
Never one to bother with hindsight, Perle wades through the smashed glass of his Iraq policy with nary a glance back or trembly lip. Now he’s at it aga…