Star Chamber Insider Richard Perle
Excellent Hersh piece here about Richard Perle, one of the scariest pro-war unelected weasels driving the US to war in the Middle East. It’s also a good eye opener about shadowy groups that make policy, such as the Defense Policy Group, a “Defense Department advisory group composed primarily of highly respected former government officials, retired military officers, and academics”. It’s like Risk, for real. What are their meetings like?
Hillman, a former McKinsey consultant, stunned at least one board member at the February meeting when he raised questions about the validity of Iraq’s existing oil contracts. “Hillman said the old contracts are bad news; he said we should kick out the Russians and the French,” the board member told me. “This was a serious conversation. We’d become the brokers. Then we’d be selling futures in the Iraqi oil company. I said to myself, ‘Oh, man. Don’t go down that road.'” Hillman denies making such statements at the meeting.
Update: Perle is suing in the UK, even while he lays out his vision for a Thousand Year American-Israeli Empire.
And Hitler thought seizing the Czech gold reserves would finance Nazi expansionism for another couple of years. When you go down the route of paying for your wars through plunder then you are on a slippery slide into barbarism.