Via Thinking it Through, Buzz Flash gives us the transcript of Richard Perle on Late Edition on Sunday where accuses Sy Hersch of being a terrorist.
PERLE: Because he’s widely irresponsible. If you read the article, it’s first of all, impossible to find any consistent theme in it.
So unfocused writing makes one a terrorist now?
But the suggestion that my views are somehow related for the potential for investments in homeland defense is complete nonsense.
And actually Perle is correct here. Perle is a loon of the first variety and it isn’t his investments driving his maniacal desire for an American Empire, it is his looniness. I don’t harp on the charge of empire building much, but in Perle’s case it is entirely appropriate. He is one of the loons who thinks the US ought to reinvent the Middle East.
BLITZER: But I don’t understand. Why do you accuse him of being a terrorist?
PERLE: Because he sets out to do damage and he will do it by whatever innuendo, whatever distortion he can — look, he hasn’t written a serious piece since My Lai.
Pot-Kettle Issues here.