Perle (and Frum) Dismiss Possibility of 3,000 American Deaths in Iraq
Richard Perle is back! The man is resilient. He was around in the '70s and '80s and, between journeys to his sock in France, the Prince of Darkness was sure around in the enfant siecle as well. These days he is holding forth on Baker-Hamilton in the pages of the Times and the WSJ. I.e., space they could be giving to, say, Kenneth Pollack or Ken Adelman, is going to him.
I find it's wise to keep a copy of Perle's book An End to Evil (penned with fellow AEIer David Frum three years ago), close at hand. Has helped me through many a crisis.
"The gloomsayers... have been proven wrong when they predicted the United States would sink into a forlorn quagmire in Iraq... The aftermath of war is always messy and often bloody... Post-Saddam Iraq has emerged from more than three decades of totalitarian rule and mass murder... Should anyone have been surprised that it took the United States a few weeks to get the lights working?..."
Just how wrong were the gloomsayers?
"Like General Barry McCaffrey, they predicted a military disater in which the United States could potentially suffer, 'bluntly, a couple to 3,000 casualties.'"
The Pearle/Frum book should rather be titled 'How to spread evil' because their recipe:
- unconditional US support for Israeal - 'no' to Palestine, plus
- one-man-one-vote democracy in all Arab lands
will in due course turn each and every Arab government into a populist-fanatic sponsor of anti-US terror.
Klaus
Frankfurt, Germany
there is a treasure trove of neo con gloating. right after the invasion and right after the 05 elections in iraq. remember "was bush right"?
My personal favorite is "everything the left said about the war was wrong" by david horowitz where he justifies the invasion because we needed to finish before "the hot summer sun"
For Perle, Krauthammer, Feith, Frum, Kristol and the rest, our dead in Iraq are 3000 dumb goyim, a small price to pay to "secure the realm."
They will take to the streets if a Jew anywhere is in trouble, but these Iowans and African-Americans are cannon fodder.
Of course, truth be told, they happily sacrifice Israelis too for their West Bank colonial passion but not with quite the indifference they feel toward goyim.
You want to know the proof that God is dead. He took Chris Reeves when if he might have taken Krauthammer. I mean, if he had a quota of parapalegics he needed to fill.