I'm going to do a review here of the new book by former Bush speechwriter David Frum (who's credited with the "axis of evil" phrase) and Richard Perle, a key Pentagon adviser, member and former head of the Defense Policy Board. Perle was famously nicknamed by his admirers "the Prince of Darkness." This book, modestly titled An End to Evil (2003), gives people a good chance to see why that might to thought an appropriate nickname for him.
The conservative, prowar Daily Telegraph (UK) reported on some of the just-published book's key policy recommendations: Hawks tell Bush how to win war on terror (12/31/03). It accruately describes the book as "a public manifesto." A blurb for the book can be found at the American Enterprise Institute's (AEI) Web site.
Some bloggers have been commenting on the ideas in the Telegraph article. Steve Gilliard declares, "These People Crazy" - which could also serve as a good three-word review of the entire book. The Left Coaster calls it "a chilling vision": Perle Lays Out the Second Term Bush Foreign Policy.
I'll also mention Karen Kwiatkowski's comment on the book: Advance Praise for 'An End to Evil'. Her review is written as a sarcastic favorable plug for the book. Also, be aware that the LewRockwell.com site where it's archived is a neo-Confederate site, which includes conservative/libertarian criticisms of current US foreign policy. Although it's not in this particular review, Kwiatkowski at times seems to share some of the conspiracy-theory outlook of the far right on the Iraq War.
A good background for the book would be the articles I mentioned in my previous post on Neoconservatives.
(Continued in Part 2.)
Tags: an end to evil, david frum, richard perle
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