"The problems in Iraq are ahead of us, but we're doing better than people think. And a year from now, I'll be very surprised if there is not some grand square in Baghdad that is named after President Bush. There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they've been liberated. And it is getting easier every day for Iraqis to express that sense of liberation."
Richard Perle - 9/22/03
Now
"Israel must now deal a blow of such magnitude to those who would destroy it as to leave no doubt that its earlier policy of acquiescence is over. This means precise military action against Hezbollah and its infrastructure in Lebanon and Syria [emphasis added], for as long as it takes and without regard to mindless diplomatic blather about proportionality."
- Richard Perle, New York Times op-ed piece published on July 23, 2006
Snarky comments
[*] Perhaps Iraqis are irrationally discontent or too modest to express that sense of liberation.
[*] Israel should indeed ignore mindless blather whether or not it comes from a diplomat.
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