First he resigned as chairman of the Defense Policy Board. Now he has If nothing else, his letter takes a patronizing view of the American public with a Perle has not only played a major role in that policy as a key advocate of the invasion of Iraq; In the book, Perle and Frum call for the United States “to overthrow the government of Iran, Postscript:<\/STRONG> Then you read this: Morality,<\/I> by her false guardians drawn, First he resigned as chairman of the Defense Policy Board. Now he has resigned from the board altogether. The right-wing ideologue Richard Perle, who advocates what might be termed a holy crusade in the Middle East and elsewhere, wrote to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in his letter of resignation: We are now approaching a long presidential […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-9e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\naltogether<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>. The right-wing ideologue Richard Perle, who
\nadvocates what might be termed a holy crusade in the Middle East and elsewhere, wrote to
\nSecretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in his letter of resignation:<\/P>
\nWe are now approaching a long presidential election campaign, in the course
\nof which issues on which I have strong views will be widely discussed and debated. I would not
\nwish those views to be attributed to you or the President at any time, and especially not during a
\npresidential campaign.<\/BLOCKQUOTE>
\n
\nbe taken seriously. Does Perle, who’s been called “the intellectual guru of the hard-line
\nneoconservative movement in foreign policy,” really believe that because he has resigned
\nfrom the board his views won’t be associated with the administration’s or the Defense
\nDepartment’s.<\/P>
\n
\ncondescending attitude toward its capacity to understand the workings of government: “A
\ntelevision viewer or newspaper reader, accustomed to zoning boards, school boards and appeal
\nboards, is likely to think that the Defense Policy Board actually makes decisions, and that a
\nmember of it must be in a position to speak authoritatively about administration policy.”<\/P>
\n
\nhe has been accused of a conflict of interest for working as a consultant to a company seeking
\nfavors from the Pentagon. And he has just published “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on
\nTerror,” co-written with David Frum, the former presidential speechwriter who coined the term
\n“axis of evil” for our Maximum Leader.<\/P>
\n
\nabandon support of a Palestinian state, blockade North Korea, use strong-arm tactics with Syria
\nand China, disregard much of Europe as allies, and sever ties with Saudi Arabia,” amazon.com
\nreviewer Charlie Williams writes.
Perle notes in his letter, “Many of the ideas in that
\nbook are controversial and I wish to be free to argue them without those views or my arguments
\ngetting caught up in the campaign.” Does he really believe his views won’t be caught up in the
\ncampaign? If he’s so concerned, why doesn’t he just shut up?<\/P>
\n
\nagain that the “war on terror” is being exploited for political gain — in this instance
\nfor south Florida votes — by an administration too corrupt at the top to permit
\ntransparency. As Alexander Pope once put it in “The Dunciad”:<\/P>
\n
Chicane,<\/I> in furs, and
\nCasuistry<\/I> in lawn,
Gasps, as they straighten at each end the cord,
And dies
\n…<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"