Last month, after seeing your post about the “neo-culpa” in Vanity Fair it occurred to me that the most import paragraph written about the proximate cause of the Iraq War and therefore the last few years may have appeared in Naomi Klein’s article “Baghdad Year Zero.” Specifically, her description of a strain of thought among certain conservative ideologues that assumes that any failure can only be the result of conservative ideology not having been applied ruthlessly enough.
My point is to well, point out, that Perle and his ilk have not reconsidered the logic that lead this country into Iraq, they’ve concluded that the Bush Administration was insufficiently pure of heart, so to speak, to give the new world they envisioned life. That means they’re still dangerous (read: a half dozen or so Kissingers), and it means that people like you can’t let them off the hook. They can’t be allowed to use a simple repudiation of the Bush administration’s execution of their disastrous misreading of the nature of things as a way to creep back into to the corridors of power.
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