Richard Perle is back
Spencer Platt/Getty Images Known to his ideological adversaries as “The Prince of Darkness,” the American Enterprise Institute’s Richard Perle has been vilified as the leading cheerleader for the Iraq War. But he’s not sorry for having supported the invasion; he’s sorry the Bush administration has botched a good idea so badly. In a rare interview ...
Known to his ideological adversaries as “The Prince of Darkness,” the American Enterprise Institute’s Richard Perle has been vilified as the leading cheerleader for the Iraq War. But he’s not sorry for having supported the invasion; he’s sorry the Bush administration has botched a good idea so badly. In a rare interview with FP, Perle sounds off about neoconservatism, Iraq and the remaining members of the Axis of Evil—and how he would stop them. Check it out.
Blake Hounshell is a former managing editor of Foreign Policy.
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