There's nothing "brilliant" about a policy of preemptive strike, unless you mean that such a policy effectively gives a nation the unfettered ability to do whatever the hell it wants without providing a rational justification for it. I happen to personally like that kind of strategy, but then I learned that I couldn't use it to justify burning down my neighbor's house.
Naturally it shouldn't be necessary to have to explain that your attempt to make it appear that Perle was some sort of nut is ridiculous since the policy of the fedgov was explicitly regime change for the last three years of the Abomination's last term.
Nobody here is making it appear that Perle is some kind of "nut" -- in fact, he's far from it. I just have no delusions about his motivations -- which were pretty much confirmed when it was learned that he was working on behalf of Global Crossing to lobby the U.S. Defense Department to approve the sale of GC's telecommunications infrastructure to Hutchison Whampoa. This company, for what it's worth, is generally recognized as a front for the Red Chinese military.
You certainly posted NOTHING "damning" about Perle. Working for Israel is hardly something one would be "damned" about except to pinheaded Bushbashers desperate to undermine the President.
See my last comment above about Global Crossing -- substitute a name like "Bernard Schwartz" for "Richard Perle," replace the name "Global Crossing" with "Loral Space & Communications Ltd.," and imagine it's 1996 instead of 2004. Are you going to tell me that you still don't get it?