Holocaust or Bonanza–Perle Said to Explore Oil Deal in Iraq

Neoconservatives Richard Perle and David Frum once wrote a book called An End to Evil, where they said it was “victory or holocaust” in going after Saddam Hussein. Now the Wall Street Journal reports that Perle is exploring an oil deal in northern Iraq. It identifies him as a neocon at Juilliar Chairman Bruce Kovner’s American Enterprise Institute, and says he has hawkish views on Israel. That’s progress. Though maybe it should have said he has a house in France. This opportunity would seem to call on the sybarite in Perle, not the ideologue.