Richard Perle

[zotz]

As I've said before, Richard Perle ("Richard Perle is chairman of the defence policy board, an advisory panel to the Pentagon.") is a man so strange and scary that even Jack Straw hates him.


Should anyone still doubt that the hawks within the Republican party seek to end restrictions on US ability to impose its will on world affairs :
As we sift the debris, it will be important to preserve, the better to understand, the intellectual wreckage of the liberal conceit of safety through international law administered by international institutions.

This is taken from the Guardian, who have published an extract
from a longer article published in the The Spectator.

I must say that the article reads almost reasonably until you remember that Perle himself was instrumental in making sure that the world's most powerful nation was never willing to fully support the UN. Come the revolution . . .

Comments

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Come the revolution...

Damn straight.

[yehoshua.livejournal.com]

And the ironic part is, it's assholes like Perle, who most deserve to go up against the wall for real, who never would end up there because their opponents are generally too committed to human rights. It almost makes me wish I wasn't such a sweet, demure, gentle sort person.

(quit laughing, you bastards, you know what I mean)

Oh

[sibelian.livejournal.com]

Ah.

So it really is as simple as my instincts have been telling me.

[swisstone.livejournal.com]

Yes. Perle's argument seems at first to be quite sensible, and it's only after a little bit of thinking that you realize what he is advocating are lynch mobs writ very large. This is very very scary. Blair will find himself very unpopular when he tries to advocate restoring and rebuilding the UN, when Bush's closest advisors simply want nothing to do with it.

[zotz]

Unless a) Iraqi oil is paying for it and b) US companies get the contracts. Clare "insert invective here" Short has apparently been arguing across the pond for the last few days that having the Iraqi schools and hospitals rebuilt and run by Americans might not be the perfect solution. The less ideological bits of the current regime are apparently perfectly happy with this idea, but they're not the ones with much power at the moment.