[Alberta's Child]

I doubt that Perle criticized Putin for going after the real Chechen terrorists. More likely he criticized Putin for slaughtering many thousands of Chechen's who weren't terrorists.

When this kind of thing happens in places like Serbia or Iraq, Perle would call it "collateral damage."

Perle was wrong about this.

Has he ackowledged this? I really doubt it, because he was only "wrong" if you look at it in the context of the so-called "war on terror." The whole point of my posts is that Perle has never been terribly concerned about waging this war on terror. He's got his own agenda here, and I suspect -- based on the seemingly contradictory positions he has taken on Kosovo, Iraq, and Chechnya -- that fighting terrorism isn't part of it.

If you really want a good indication of this, do a search on the terms "Richard Perle," "al-Qaeda," and/or "Osama bin Laden." You'd be hard-pressed to find too many documents or statements in which Perle mentions the latter two even in passing.

[FreeReign]

I doubt that Perle criticized Putin for going after the real Chechen terrorists. More likely he criticized Putin for slaughtering many thousands of Chechen's who weren't terrorists.

When this kind of thing happens in places like Serbia or Iraq, Perle would call it "collateral damage."

There is no comparison between our collateral damage in Iraq and Putin's collateral damage in Chechnya.

[FreeReign]

The whole point of my posts is that Perle has never been terribly concerned about waging this war on terror. He's got his own agenda...

The exact same thing has been said about Putin.