Reinforces what I always thought: a lot of lefties are naive, not evil.Once after the Soviet Union fell I ran into [Izzy Stone]. He said, "Richard [Perle] was a hero. I was wrong about the Soviet Union. He was right."
Naive people who commit objectively evil actions.
Unfortunately dangerously naive if entrusted with power.
Impossible to be naive after the Moscow show trials, after the invasion of Hungary, and so many other things. Impossible. To quote Bob Dylan, [he] “just wanted to be on the side that’s winning” when he praised Perl.
For all practical purposes, it's an irrelevent distinction. In either case, they're rooting against liberty and deserve nothing less than malediction.
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He’s a two time loser then. First Stalin and then Perle. This fool really knows how to pick them.