Technically he is correct. There is a single policy endorsed by both Democrats and Republicans, and that is Globalization, which is just another word for Empire. The neocons are more in your face about it and do a lousy job convincing even the gullible, the left talks soft and nice nice, and does a better job trying to justify what they do, like Clintons people in the Serbian war which was also propaganda like Iraq, but they do much the same. Obama is increasing forces in Afghanistan and talking tough on Pakistan while remaining silent on Israels policies against the Palestinians.

Politics has become much like a religion. The left has it's church of Democrats, the right has it's church of Republicans. Their church does no wrong, the other church is evil. In the center, we watch and hope both left and right knock each other out and their church burns, but nobody viable ever steps up as an alternative since the system is so corrupt a 3rd party candidate just can not compete with candidates who can raise 600 million to buy the 30 second commercials that convince people who to vote for.

And most (95%) of the incumbents in Congress who had to stand for election in 2008, the worst Congress in history, who never opposed the Republican policies on any issue relating to foreign policy and security, got re-elected. People vote for their church, no matter what.

Democracy works only when the majority of people can think and reason and question what they are told. Today the majority of people accept the religous dogma of their Church and have faith. Like it or not, we are a political theocracy, people chose which religion, Democrats or Republicans, and both religions worship the God of Globalization. Our founding fathers must be rolling in their graves, we are everything they were against.

If you really want to understand these people, I suggest you read two classics very carefully. Lewis Carol's "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass." Once you have absorbed those, you should have absolutely no trouble understanding both the Neocons and American Politics

How come this sick f**k isn't living in this country, the country that he and his thug pals never tire of telling us, is the "greatest country in the world"?

How come "the greatest country in the world" isn't good enough for his home, and, of all places, he chooses "old Europe," and, worse even, France (he lives in the town of Gordes, in the region of France called Luberon), a country that opted out of joining the coalition of the willing?

But, hey, when you are Perle, prince of darkness, why should you care about being consistent? When you are Perle, you just make your own reality.

Remember that, folks, when we were told by the White House, I believe, that, yes, "we are an empire now, we make our own reality"?

The Wa. Post, i.e., the CIA's favorite newspaper, article says, "In real life, Perle was the ideological architect of the Iraq war and of the Bush doctrine of preemptive attack."

If he was the architect, then who were his bosses, who was he really working for, given architects work for others, clients? And of course neither The People of the USA, nor The People of Iraq, were clients.

Being architect doesn't make a person boss, but rather an employee or contractor, say, and like any employee, or contractor, the person can choose to refuse to work for some people who would like to hire the services of the architect. Perle was clearly hired, so who were his paymasters, clients, bosses, masters?!

There's also a major difference between being an architect of plans and being the person who is C-in-C and orders the plans to be carried out; we should all know. Sure, Bush Jr was only figurehead C-in-C, for there were others who were more C-in-C than he was and they used Karl Rove, aka "Bush's brain", to write his speeches, used electronic communication to guide him through public speeches, such as the time that a cameraman filmed Bush Jr's back and we could see that there definitely was a small box-shaped electronic device under his coat and on his back, f.e., etcetera.

And Bush purportedly did not always first receive documents that the president should've received first; instead, it's been reported that Cheney arranged to have such documents rerouted to his office first, and obviously so that he could go over these before the president could. Too.

There are plenty of reasons for realising that Bush was C-in-C, in official terms, quite only; not really in real or concrete terms. Whenever he began to speak in softening ways with regards to the war on Iraq, and he did one time state that the rest of the world would be better or much better off if the U.S. withdrew, letting that honesty accidentally slip out and quickly trying to get back to the line that he was strategically supposed to be speaking on, Cheney would come forward strongly pro-war, etcetera, very quickly, within at most a few days. Cheney peculiarly conducted himself on 9-11. Cheney ... was more president than Bush Jr was and employed the position of VP to be right up close to the presidential office for his own personal reasons. He was CEO of the world's largest oil industry services company before becoming VP and did [not] really cut ties as he only made to publicly appear to have done so. I forget which article or articles I read about that latter bit of information from, but it was definitive in terms of source, as well as providing some details, like how he was still tied, had not given up what he claimed, publicly, to have given up in terms of the ties, this sort of detail.

But Perle was only architect, so who was he working for, under whose orders?!

It's simply an evil man trying to wriggle out of responsibility because of the current climate of blame. Those who rationalize the truth are followers of the "Father of Lies" without even believing in such a being. They don't believe in the concept of truth, just use it like they use everything else to justify their own greed. They 'do what's necessary'. Then they sit back to see how many suckers have swallowed their latest lie. If it doesn't fly, they go back to the drawing board. In the United States, such bulshit usually does fly. Rush Limbaugh has made fame and fortune with it.

Great article. It could be used to show the inner workings of megalomania.

Perle is clearly deranged. He has a split personality. He is capable of anything.

He may well believe that he is Santa and Jesus as well. He may even think he's the Statue of Liberty!

For a closer look at reality, check my blog.

www.dangerouscreation.com

"George Markley February 20th, 2009 7:35 pm

It's simply an evil man trying to wriggle out of responsibility because of the current climate of blame. Those who rationalize the truth are followers of the "Father of Lies" without even believing in such a being."

It's awfully too easy to repeat things others have said or are purported to have said and then try to pretend that they equally apply when we use the same words. Rationalising, "to make rational" (instead of irrational) or to "interpret from a rational standpoint" (instead of an irratioinal standpoint), infers [reasoning], analysing, ..., and this is of real value; it helps to form a better judgement or to arrive at a saner and more mature analysis or understanding.

F.e., we can rationally state and believe, or even know (based on many-times-repeated history) that if it hadn't been Richard Perle who wrote the policies he wrote and which was for his bosses, paymasters, ..., then it would've been someone else; therefore, blaming people like Perle, that is in the kind of position he was in, as if they're responsible and no one else is is to do like the U.S. govt and military have been doing in trying and convicting troops for crimes committed in the war on Iraq while not prosecuting and while therefore protecting their superiors, who gave orders, training to be murderers, and so on.

Perle was and is a goon, but not [boss], so focusing on him and not on them is to lie like the "father of lies" [does] lie. He, like criminal boss humans, like others to be scapegoats. He's guilty, but his bosses or employers are more criminal and guilty than he was. They're all guilty and should be tried, convicted, sentenced, etcetera, but not only him; Perle, that is (you can dream about doing the same to the "father of lies", but you'd be dreaming, only).

That's being rational. Anything less is irrational and either ignorant or else malicious, like actually participating in protecting the most guilty, criminal parties of all.

boblecht

It took far too long for this cabal of rabid radicals to be exposed. If not for the internet shining a light on their blight, they would still be pushing the propaganda and the MSM would be replicating it for the masses. Perle's attempt to remake himself is part of a much larger attempt by the Neo-Cons to reestablish some level of credibility in the media. I'm sickened to see these guys and their new recruits from their think tanks and propaganda factories frequently featured as "authoritative" talking heads in the media, including (God save us) NPR and PBS. To give them a fresh voice is a grave mistake. These guys are the greatest internal national security threat we face. They are committed to their ideology, evangelically fervent in their commitment to spread the word, and they duplicate like worms cut in half. Continue to challenge their credibility and sanity with articles like this--PLEASE!

Perle, W Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld are in one word; AMBASSADORS OF SATAN'S EMPIRE. THE DEVIl.

OK. So they're not neo's and the policy wasn't "neo-conservative"...

I guess that means they just flat went in for the OIL.

Perle and his people, the cadre of neoconservatives, the right-wing world black and whiters, have no principles and when confronted with the principles they expound, having no principles, they deny those priniciples.

The revisionists are scrambling and scratching out the lie to alter their history, until they are the benign do-gooders who only love their country.

Nut-job liars with no core.

What more can be said.

Makes me want to puke.

not directly about perle, but one of his comrades in armchair warriordom, uebergruppensturmfuehrer frederick kagan:

WARNING: don't read if you don't want to gag in disgust at how mind-numbingly racist, stupid, & homicidal neocons (or whatever you want to call them) are:

http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/02/20/knowing-where-we-stand-on-afghanistan/
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at a minimum, having been wrong about literally everything for 8 straight years, you'd think perle, kagan, kristol, brooks et al would just shut the hell up. you'd be waaaaaaaaay wrong. at long last...have you no shame?

Perle might be right about Bush not reading neocon documents. Too much like work.

He is in France eh? May the French bring their guillotines, afterall they will need them with this neocon in their midst.

Perle is right, American bully boys have been trampling other nations for decades and Bush was just a blatant continuation of it. Look up School for the America's or the Carter Doctrine if you have any doubts. Remember Vietman that war was based an a lie as well.
Cheers,
RR

No doubt about it..
Perle and the other odious people he clumps with are true cowards of the basest kind. Intellectual midgets compared to almost anybody else at all.. but with the cunning of cornered rats..
Now that the eagles are circling for the kill, the vultures are getting nervous..
They will try and get away and lay low until the next opportunity arises to become "(not-)neocons" (Tm) again.. only this time with a different name.
Remember how Cheney and Rumsfeld were such lying bastards in the Regan era??

But then they believe the twisted philosophy of their "mentor", the stunted genius Strauss..
A man with 'views' that would have been laughed at by any half respectable half drunk, except these views could be harnessed to the evil philosophy of the meat grinder of Zionism.. It is essential if you are a "(not-)neocon" (Tm) to realise that the proles (that is you and I) can not understand how important it is to actually, really, destroy, literally tear up our world, so that we may rebuild it again in a new exciting way, under their benevolent and wise guidance. They really believe this crappulent posturing and have worked towards it..... The approved techniques to push their "philosophy" upon a reluctant humanity include deception and blatant lies.. It is obvious Perle is adept at both..

Lunatics like this once were safely locked up where they practised their intellectual and physical onanism in relative seclusion.
Is it actually possible that people listened to these bastards because they were mostly Jews, dual nationality Israelis and Americans (the only people so blessed.. odd that..) bending over so as NOT to give "offence" to the only righteous victims in the entire history of the world??

As welcome as turds in a swimming pool, all of them..

Scott Peck wrote a book called "People of the Lie". I didn't like it because I didn't want to believe it.

About four years ago a friend of mine said "Some people are just no damned good". I said I didn't believe that, but I knew it was true.

The entrance to Fermi Lab has a sculpture called "Broken symmetry". Something about being, the world as it is, is broken, malformed, maybe unfinished, I don't know, but the proclamation in Genesis "He saw it was very good"---no.

Who would choose to be this man? Not me. Not him either I would bet. Bad genes? Bad parenting? Product of a sick society? Maybe all three. Scott Peck said some people were just evil. That is no answer, it is merely restating the reality of the situation.

"Nietzsche February 21st, 2009 7:09 am

Scott Peck wrote a book called "People of the Lie". I didn't like it because I didn't want to believe it."

You "didn't [want] to believe it", which is not to say that you "didn't believe it", for there's a clear distinction in meaning between the two expressions.

Good book; simple, easy to understand, but one other thing is also certain and it's that pathological liars, which the book is basically about, are a damn nuisance. I try to be tolerant, but they're a kind of character that zaps my tolerance "fuses".

Nietzsche:

"About four years ago a friend of mine said "Some people are just no damned good". I said I didn't believe that, but I knew it was true.

The entrance to Fermi Lab has a sculpture called "Broken symmetry". Something about being, the world as it is, is broken, malformed, maybe unfinished, I don't know, but the proclamation in Genesis "He saw it was very good"---no."

You don't perceive the truth in that bit of Genesis, but it's true. The "trick" is how to understand the words. Chronologically speaking, humans didn't exist at first, but this of course isn't the sole point to consider, for another is that humans have the [potential] to be of good will and conduct, just that many are raised as brats and become rotten sh*ts who are never satisfied no matter how much more than [enough] they actually have. Some insane people pretend to be sane and we see a strong example of this with the illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank, with one of their mayors, an awfully insane, rather psychopathic, woman who if we didn't know the truth could seem sane, truthful, just, .... This is in the following video, a CBS '60 Minutes' investigative report, an evidently good and important one too.

"Is Peace Out Of Reach?" (13:10), CBSNewsOnline, Jan 25 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tor75dMABi8

The mayoress, whose name I can't clearly make out, but the last name seeming to be Weiss, which certainly doesn't strike me as any kind of Middle Eastern name, but rather some European name, and while she genetically has no Middle Eastern apparence, but a European one, yes; well, she doesn't sound all that vicious, psychopathic, etcetera, enough that for people who don't know what's really going on there could think she's an honest, sincere, kind, caring, law-abiding, human rights-respecting, ... person. But knowing what's really going there permits the realisation that she is definitely insane and certainly is comparable to criminal fascists like Hitler and Mussolini, the many of the U.S. govt, and so on; even if there are differences between them and her, there's an awful lot of similarity between them all and it's a similarity of insanity, evil, hypocrisy, and so on.

People in Israel and Palestinian territory claiming to be Jewish, but while being of European origin, either directly or through ancestry, these people have [no] rights to any land as if it ancestrally belongs to them or their group. They are [invaders], and very criminal are their ways in enforcing their first-of-all criminal invasions.

They believe the contrary and therefore speak according to this perverted perspective. They're insane, psychopathic, pathological liars, dementedly twist the religious faith they claim to believe in, and so on. They are among the "People(s) of the Lie(s)".

Good book, and Dr Scott Peck was evidently quite good at his work, but damn are the pathological liars a nuisance, ... sickening, distressing, and angering.

God, as Creator, created the Universe or Cosmos, and thought the work was good, and I believe it, because of believing that the universe is [awesome], which it is. Later came humans and the fact that we have the ability to make choices, we possess will, or free will, we can choose to be just, so of good will and conduct, or not; and we sadly have too many people who are brats and get into positions of power over others, many, many others. They have their leagues and armies of brats to co-operate with and to be served by. And they're all insane, sociopathic and psychopathic, as plenty of psychologists and psychiatrists have said about, f.e., CEO's, especially those of large corporations. Well, if that's true about them, and it is true, then the same applies to or with also politicians, lawyers, judges, generals, colonels, admirals, and lower ranks among the officers of the military branches, ... etcetera. Oh, of course also CIA operatives, State Dept members, which includes N.E.D. members, or at least the people in the superior positions of the NED, and ... so on. They all work together and the corporations are always involved as they're the key interested parties seeking to expand their reach for economic dominion, say.

An awfully powerful league of psychopaths and pathological liars!

When something has the ring of truth everybody knows it. It can come from anywhere.

When a baseball falls just short of a home run nobody curses the ball. Neophytes, when trying to train a dog, will curse the dog. Experienced dog trainers know better. Once convinced of the dog's intelligence and suitable disposition they curse nothing. They methodically train the dog to be vicious or affectionate, active or passive, as they choose.

Just as many people insist that evolution applies to all species except man, created in God's image, they will not admit that the human animal is subject to operant conditioning. Free will, as that term is used in theological discussions, does not exist.

The only free will I have now is a result of the thoughts, treatment by others, and my body chemistry yesterday and for that matter, two seconds ago. This is obvious, and raises the question: Why are we so careless about the content of our consciousness? "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he."

The world would have fewer problems if people spent more time alone with no distractions, considering carefully what thoughts they should have today to produce the actions they would like to realize tomorrow.

Mike Corbeil....thanks so much for that link...says it all, doesn't it?...like i said earlier..pathological liars!

He certainly has got a lot of chutzpah, daring to show his face again after all the misery and suffering his actions and ideas caused other people.

The neocons are looking forward to the next 9/11.

James A. Swanson, Los Altos, CA
www.bushleagueofnations.com [for FREE download of entire $25.95 book]

Perle has always been a dangerous fool. Now it's clear he's also a liar.

Here's Perle’s infamous prediction regarding his War on Iraq:

“There will be dancing in the streets throughout Iraq if we liberate that country. The idea that it’s going to damage us in the Arab world is nonsense. We will be seen not as invaders but as liberators.”

The GOP’s War on Iraq and America is a central theme of “The Bush League of Nations,” a popular $25.95 book which you can now download for FREE at www.bushleagueofnations.com.

Jim Swanson

An effective method that would get Perle to fess up to the truth, is remove him from his comfort zone, restrain him, and then shove bamboo slithers under his nails, twisting them all the way! Then ask him again, I guarantee that that so-called "Prince" will be singing like a canary. LMAO