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Why is Richard Perle still gainfully employed?

Via Josh Marshall:

"A year from now, I'll be very surprised if there is not some grand square in Baghdad that is named after President Bush."

Richard Perle
AEI Keynote speech
September 22, 2003

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1. In the Reagan days,

Perle thought the USA could attack the USSR with nuclear weapon's and "win".

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2. He also thought that installing loudspeakers in the mountains

of Afghanistan and shouting propaganda from them would inspire massive defections. He actually thought the Soviets would surrender to the Afghans- people who were well known to torture captured Soviet soldiers to death.

Loudspeakers. In the hills.

The man is an absolute loon.