Ben Wattenberg: Who were some of his protégés? Richard Perle: Well, Paul Wolfowitz was one. Ben Wattenberg: Who’s now Deputy Defense Secretary. Richard Perle: Yes. Paul was his student in his ...

With the business model for war now firmly established, Jarecki points out, it was easy for nonelected neocon ideologues like Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, and the draftees of the ...