Has Richard Perle led us irrevocably into his Darkness? Here is Perle speaking in the documentary “Why We Fight” …
The world has changed and we‘re not going back to where we were. I find one of the sillier ideas is the notion and you hear it all the time that American policy has been hijacked by a handful of people and as soon as they‘re out of there we‘re going to go back to the way it was. They‘re wrong about that.Because we are not the same people we were before.
Once we have drank the blood? That was my first thought upon hearing that last line. And for the first time I was struck with a chill that Perle has sought war not just to transform the world in a quest for empire but further to conquer US. We are now the people who wage pre-emptive and arguably aggressive war. We are now the people who torture. These are thresholds once passed that I believe will alter our psyche and vanquish our soul. We will not be the same collective being and if Perle is not the true Prince of Darkness he must certainly be its understudy.
And our response? Well I hear lyrical possibilities:
We can fight for our souls…
By grace
(my place is of the sun)
My sight
(and this place is of the dark)
Is growing stronger
(I do not feel the romance)
I will not be a pawn
(I will not be)
For the prince of darkness any longer
Or be overcome…
Oh how I wish I were a trinity
So if I lost a part
of me
I’d still have two of the same to live
(lyrics from indigo girls: prince of darkness & love‘s recovery)