If you’d read this article in the current issue of the battle-ravaged American Prospect, you’d know that Richard Perle is Chairman of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board, a standing committee charged with evaluating Defense Department readiness, acquisitions, planning, and all manner of defense-wonk big-think. That fact has some bearing on Perle’s opinion about the cancellation of a major Navy weapons program.
But apparently, no one told the Washington Post, which quoted Perle thusly in Saturday’s paper:
Richard Perle, a missile defense advocate who served in the Pentagon during the Reagan administration, said he wasn’t upset by the cancellation. “I’m for missile defenses, but I’m not for bad programs,” he said. “I’d rather move cautiously.”
P.S. Special thanks to TPM reader CM for the catch.
