The Next War (about Perle and Frums book)

[kayell]

http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/9688

It’s a helluva New Year’s present: a new neocon manifesto which wants to put the United States on a course for war with three countries.

Published the day before 2004 by Random House, An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror bears the signature of two of Washington’s most influential ideologues. Richard Perle, known as the “Prince of Darkness”, helped put together the now-famous 1999 neocon manifesto (signed by Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney, among others) calling for war on Iraq. David Frum is Dubya’s former speechwriter, the man who coined “axis of evil” and put it in the president’s mouth.

The book proposes harsh action against France—which Perle and Frum say should be treated as an "enemy"—and thunders that "We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington." Gerhard Schroeder has just accepted a French invitation to become the first German Chancellor to participate in the annual commemoration of the 1944 U.S. landings at Normandy that began the liberation of Europe. This underscores how the Franco-German couple is in the ascendance once again as the dominant force in the European Union—Perle and Frum’s francophobia is a mad prescription for dividing the Western democracies right at the time their cooperation is essential to advance the war on terrorism, now as ever primarily a police/intelligence problem. (Not to mention that the French, with several centuries of experience in dealing with the Arab world, frequently have better intelligence info than does Washington—witness the pre-Christmas fiasco of the Paris/Los Angeles flights, where among the passengers the U.S. falsely identified as "terrorists" was a six-year-old child).

The book’s knee-jerk frog-baiting is mild compared to its call for a military blockade of North Korea, combined with overt preparations for war. The North Koreans, of course, have just accepted an extensive visit by a non-governmental U.S. nuclear inspection team headed by the former director of the Los Alamos labs and has offered to freeze its "nuclear activities" to jump-start negotiations with the United States.

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[acmavm]

It's absolutely plain that these two meglo-maniacal, war-mongering

idiots who have never seen a battlefield are an "imminent danger" to the safety of the United States. It is obvious that some action should be taken. When are the responsible people in government going to act? And by responisble, I mean republicans who's as well, the one's who truly care about this country and what happens to it. Wars, foreign debt that will destabilize the world, you name it, these nuts are at the bottom of it. We need to start appealing to ALL rational people in our government for help against these jackals.

[acmavm]

1. It's absolutely plain that these two meglo-maniacal, war-mongering

idiots who have never seen a battlefield are an "imminent danger" to the safety of the United States. It is obvious that some action should be taken. When are the responsible people in government going to act? And by responisble, I mean republicans who's as well, the one's who truly care about this country and what happens to it. Wars, foreign debt that will destabilize the world, you name it, these nuts are at the bottom of it. We need to start appealing to ALL rational people in our government for help against these jackals.

[pscot]

2. Richard Perle may be the most dangerous man in America

who is not actually in the government.