Richard Perle
Richard Perle
Richard Norman Perleis an American political advisor, consultant, and lobbyist who began his career in government as a senior staff member to Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson on the Senate Armed Services Committee in the 1970s. Later he was heavily involved with the Reagan administration and served as an assistant Secretary of Defense and also worked on the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee from 1987 to 2004. He was Chairman of the Board in 2001 under the Bush Administration but eventually...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth16 September 1941
CountryUnited States of America
The FBI must return to the job it does best: catching criminals. It should be fired from the counterterrorism job it has bungled, and its counterterrorism units and employees should be reassigned to a new domestic intelligence agency.
The attack would be over before anybody knew what had happened.
What's the big fuss about preemption? You'd shoot first if someone was planning to shoot you right?
a formal warning that the agency's enforcement staff has determined that evidence of wrongdoing is sufficient to bring a civil lawsuit.
After 9/11, there was an awakening. The administration has to believe that it's possible to wait too long to deal with a problem, the contours of which could have been seen easily before. Is it safe to do that again?
President Chirac has said Saddam Hussein was his friend -- a friend, one of the most brutal dictators in this world?
The situation in Bosnia is such that a safe withdrawal of American forces can be made effective. The scale of the problem is now such that it is entirely manageable by the Europeans.
But even a nation of laws must understand the limits of legalism. Between 1861 and 1865, the government of the United States took tens of thousands of American citizens prisoner and detained them for years without letting any one of them see a lawyer.
It's Saddam Hussein's style of justice, and it's appalling.
In the Middle East, democratization does not mean calling immediate elections and then living with whatever happens next.
We can train Iraqi soldiers to combat insurgencies while respecting human rights, as we have trained armies in the Philippines and Latin America.
The problem is the message, ... The message is confused and inconsistent. It posits a problem, but does not provide a convincing solution. Only if the problem and the solution are in balance can they hope to convince a skeptical public.
I think in this case international law stood in the way of doing the right thing.
France has aligned itself with Saddam -- there's no other way to look at this.