Richard Perle Is a Putz

Well, obviously, as a neo-con, he's got all the necessary qualifications to be a putz. But Richard Perle justifies America's foreign policy by pointing to fundamentalist Muslims' treatment of women, among other things. What a putz!

Let me elaborate. Sure, fundamentalist Muslims treat women like crap. It's not really a point which should be up for discussion. Some people think it's just terrible, others think it's just swell, but the treatment is pretty much a closed book, fact-wise.

So I guess the religious fundamentalists who aren't Muslim must treat their wives significantly better than those naughty Muslim fundamentalists. And they support neo-con policies, so... well, so what? Religions seem to have one thing in common: treating women like crap. I'm not a woman or particularly religious, so I can't really complain.

But if those naughty Muslim fundamentalists treat women like crap, I guess we should go to war with Saudi Arabia too. After all, regime change can only help the women in that country. What about all the other places in the world where women are treated like crap?

I guess what it comes down to is that our foreign policy has nothing to do with giving women rights, and you shouldn't let them sell you that line. Whether you agree or disagree, we didn't go to war to help people out. We went to war for very specific reasons at the time, reasons which I think many people would like everyone to forget. Don't forget them.

And Richard Perle, I would advise getting some new lines. In fact, a comparison to how the United States violated the trust of the South Vietnamese and pulled out might serve you well. Look for that; they'll start making comparisons to Vietnam any day now. Vietnam didn't have any weapons of mass destruction either.