Richard Perle: Still Crazy After All These Years
Crazy like a fox…
by
Justin Raimondo
by Justin Raimondo
 Now
that the greatest
strategic disaster in American military history is an accomplished
fact, its architects
are distancing themselves from their handiwork. For the past year
or two, we have been treated
to the spectacle
of what might be called neoconservative panic syndrome – the cabal
that lied
us into war is frightened to death of being held responsible
for the catastrophe. Their
catastrophe.
 And
who can blame them? After all, the consequences could include prosecution
for all sorts of crimes, running the gamut from torture
to deliberately misleading
Congress to violation
of the Intelligence
Identities Protection Act. In a halfway rational world, these
people would be tarred
and feathered, at the very least, before the law had a chance
to nab them. Instead, these
war birds are still pontificating from their protected perches
on the op-ed pages of the
New York Times and the Washington Post, albeit
to a shrinking and increasingly skeptical audience.
Some have recanted.
Others, less
reflective, blame everyone but themselves. And a good many are
defiant and more full of themselves – as well as other substances
– than ever. Such a one is Richard
Perle, the so-called Dark
Prince of the neocons, the most relentless and disreputable
of the lot. Writing
in The National Interest, where Francis Fukuyama first proclaimed
"the end of history," Perle treats us to a neocon revision of some
very recent history – in other words, an account of the origins
and execution of the Iraq war that will appear in the history books
of Bizarro World.
According to
Perle, the palace revolution carried out by the War Party in the
wake of 9/11 – which Bob Woodward likened to the establishment of
"a
separate government" by the neocons – never really came off.
Read
the rest of the article
January
15, 2009
Justin
Raimondo [send him mail]
is editorial director of Antiwar.com
and is the author of An
Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard and Reclaiming
the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement.
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