"This is total war. We are fighting a variety of enemies. There are lots of them out there. All this talk about first we are going to do Afghanistan, then we will do Iraq, then we take a look around and see how things stand. This is entirely the wrong way to go about it. ..If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy, but just wage a total war...our children will sing great songs about us years from now."
What kind of vision & what kind of children are we talking about here, Richard?
Strangely in the following quotes, Perle offers a kind of Dictatorship for Dummies blueprint:
"Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces."
And
"Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people."
Which echoes the wise words of Hermann Goering during the Nuremberg trials:
"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
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did you make that quotation up? it's hard to tell, these people sound like parodies of themselves anyway...'our children will sing great songs about us' - Jesus, like "ding dong, the witch is dead"?
I'm afraid it's a genuine quote, El. They really are that crazy. And they really are in power.
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