Frum's New Neocon Manifesto

is this it? the definitive blue print? just when all those questions were beginning to look unanswered:

An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror - by Richard Perle and David Frum

a quick pr?cis of the manifesto:

- Support the overthrow of the terrorist mullahs of Iran.
- End the terrorist regime of Syria.
- Regard Saudi Arabia and France not as friends but as rivals ? maybe enemies...
- Withdraw support from the United Nations if it does not reform.
- Tighten immigration and security at home.
- Radically reorganize the CIA and the FBI.
- Squeeze China, and blockade North Korea to press them to abandon its nuclear program.
- Abandon the illusion that a Palestinian state will contribute in any important way to U.S. security

all this and more, including a general corrosion of the constitution and bill of rights on the american domestic front...

Richard Perle needs no introduction, i'm sure, but here is an interesting article from the guardian on him + friends, that reveals how he once wrote a political thriller called 'Hard Line' - you can find it here. 'Its hero is a male senior official at the Pentagon, working late into the night and battling almost single-handedly to rescue the US from liberal wimps at the state department who want to sign away America's nuclear deterrent in a disarmament deal with the Russians'...

Frum made his name as a presidential speechwriter but fell from grace after it was leaked (by his wife) that he was the inspiration behind the 'axis of evil' speech. crushed by now missing out on the greatest period of winks, nods and secret handshakes in recent political history, this collaboration with Perle looks set to see him climbing the greasy pole once again. (The book jacket says Frum was the "most influential thinker in the foreign-policy apparatus of the Administration of George W. Bush" and Perle is "the intellectual guru of the hard-line neoconservative movement in foreign policy.") so listen up....

'tell me when lord, tell me when. let me be your servant lord'....

not scared? anyone even near to influencing the use of atomic missiles and thermoneculear weopons who speaks about 'ending evil' (...!) is a very dangerous person...General Ripper's concerns over a declining "purity of essence" as he launched his strategic-bomber wing on a pre-emptive nuclear attack (Strangelove).... we live in these times.