Antiwar.com,
If hard-core neo-conservatives Richard Perle and David Frum had their way, the Bush administration would be issuing ultimatums on virtually a daily basis. In their new book, An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror, Perle, the well-connected former chairman of the Defense Policy Board (DPB), and Frum, a former White House speechwriter, call for the administration to, among many other things:
- Actively promote, presumably through direct action, the secession of the oil-rich eastern province of Saudi Arabia, unless the Saudi government provides its “utmost cooperation in the war on terror”;
- Cut off the flow of oil (from Iraq) and arms supplies to Syria, and pursue suspected “terrorists” into its territory, unless Damascus implements a thoroughgoing “western reorientation” of its policies, economy and political system;
- Prepare to launch preemptive strikes against North Korea's nuclear facilities (although “we do not know where all these facilities are”), unless Pyongyang immediately surrenders all of its nuclear material, closes its missile bases and agrees to the permanent presence of international inspectors”;
- Explicitly reject the jurisdiction of the United Nations Charter, unless it is amended to accommodate Washington's new strategic doctrine of “preemption”;
- Help “dissidents” overthrow the government of Iran
