when Richard Perle and I published An End to Evil at the beginning of the year, we touched off about as nasty a literary brawl as the book-review pages have witnessed in some time. Michiko Kakutani, the daily book reviewer for the New York Times, was reduced to sputtering indignation: “absolutist… cocky . . . swaggering . . . smug . . . shrill . . . deliberately provocative.” “Reckless disregard for complexity, shades of grey or the possibility of unintended consequences,” huffed The Economist. And so, on and on it went.
Well, we can’t complain. We started it.
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