Forum Overview :: Motherfucking News :: Re: Richard Perle: even more insane than previously thought

[quote name="laudablepuss"][quote name="Zebco Fuckface"]I can't believe this <a href="http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030204-031831-1626r">shit</a>. <i>France is no longer an ally of the United States and the NATO alliance "must develop a strategy to contain our erstwhile ally or we will not be talking about a NATO alliance" the head of the Pentagon's top advisory board said in Washington Tuesday.</i> <i>Richard Perle, a former assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan administration and now chairman of the Pentagon's Policy Advisory Board, condemned French and German policy on Iraq in the strongest terms at a public seminar organized by a New York-based PR firm and attended by Iraqi exiles and American Middle East and security officials.</i>[/quote] What's insane about this? The French have no leg to stand on whatsoever and he's calling them on it. Or is the crazy part saying bad things about one's allies in public, even when they are true? For my part, the apparent nuttiness of this: [quote][We] must develop a strategy to contain our erstwhile ally or we will not be talking about a NATO alliance[/quote] is at least offset by the sound pragmatism of this: [quote]It is now reasonable to ask whether the United States should now or on any other occasion subordinate vital national interests to a show of hands by nations who do not share our interests.[/quote] Anyway it's <a href="http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1560497">no worse</a> than what they say <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2077874">about us</a>.[/quote]