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March 1, 2004 issue Copyright © 2004 The American ConservativeNo End to WarThe Frum-Perle prescription would ensnare America in endless conflict. By Patrick J. BuchananOn the **** jacket of his book, Richard Perle appends a Washington Post depiction of himself as the “intellectual guru of the hard-line neoconservative movement in foreign policy.”The guru’s reputation, however, does not survive a reading. Indeed, on putting down Perle’s new book the thought recurs: the neoconservative moment may be over. For they are not only losing their hold on power, they are losing their grip on reality.An End to Evil: How to Win the...

Violence breeds violence -- but so can nonviolence. This is often forgotten in the debate over terrorism, as illustrated in some reviews of the new book by David Frum and Richard Perle, An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror. Perle and Frum lay out a bold plan to defend America. But more important than their specific proposals, they provide insight into how our leaders are confronting -- or not confronting -- the war on terrorism. As a forensic psychologist, what I found most worthwhile about the book was this unapologetic attitude toward terrorists and terrorism. I...

Charity Event May Have Terrorist Link Pentagon Adviser Who Spoke at Function Thought Money Was for Quake Victims By Glenn Kessler Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, January 29, 2004; Page A08 Pentagon adviser Richard N. Perle, a strong advocate of war against Iraq, spoke last weekend at a charity event that U.S. officials say may have had ties to an alleged terrorist group seeking to topple the Iranian government and backed by Saddam Hussein. The event, attended by more than 3,000 people Saturday at the Washington Convention Center, generated enough concerns within the administration that officials debated whether they had...

Front Page The following are excerpts from the recently released book An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror by hardcore US neo-conservatives Richard Perle and David Frum. Perle is the well-connected former chairman of the US Defense Policy Board, while Frum is a former White House speechwriter. These excerpts deal specifically with Asia. Given Perle's very close relationships with senior hawks in the administration of President George W Bush, these positions probably quite accurately reflect what Vice President Dick Cheney and Pentagon civilians are arguing at the highest levels in the administration. North Korea The South...

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Boeing's Pentagon link in limelight By Joshua Chaffin in Washington Published: December 7 2003 21:58 | Last Updated: December 7 2003 21:58 Boeing has formed ties with half a dozen members of the Defence Policy Board, an influential civilian group that advises the Pentagon. The relationships range from Boeing's hiring board members as paid consultants to pouring tens of millions of dollars into their investment funds. Such moves highlight the aerospace company's efforts to become entrenched in Washington's defence establishment as its emphasis has shifted in recent years from commercial aviation to military contracting. They have come to light amid...

Perle lobbied for Boeing's tanker bid By Joshua Chaffin in Washington and Stephanie Kirchgaessner in New York Published: December 5 2003 0:50 | Last Updated: December 5 2003 0:50 Richard Perle, a prominent Pentagon adviser, lobbied on behalf of Boeing's bid for a controversial $18bn government contract a year after the aerospace company made a $20m investment in the venture capital fund he runs. Mr Perle, a former Reagan-era assistant defence secretary, is considered one of the most influential civilian members of Washington's defence establishment. He was appointed in 2001 by Donald Rumsfeld, defence secretary, to chair the Defence Policy...

Pentagon bankers may bail out Black 'Ex-Presidents Club' ready to throw lifeline to embattled Telegraph owner Jamie Doward and Jessica Hodgson Sunday November 23, 2003 The Observer A powerful banking group with close links to the Pentagon, which has also invested money on behalf of the Bin Laden family, is in talks to bail out beleaguered Daily Telegraph owner Conrad Black. The revelation suggests that Britain's bestselling broadsheet - coveted by rival newspaper barons because of its political influence - may not go under the hammer after all, as Lord Black tries to quell a shareholder rebellion in the face...

War critics astonished as US hawk admits invasion was illegal Oliver Burkeman and Julian Borger in Washington Thursday November 20, 2003 The Guardian International lawyers and anti-war campaigners reacted with astonishment yesterday after the influential Pentagon hawk Richard Perle conceded that the invasion of Iraq had been illegal. In a startling break with the official White House and Downing Street lines, Mr Perle told an audience in London: "I think in this case international law stood in the way of doing the right thing." President George Bush has consistently argued that the war was legal either because of existing UN...

<p>Harvard historian Richard Pipes shaped the Reagan administration's aggressive approach to the Soviet Union. His support for confrontation over containment prefigured the Bush foreign policy of today.</p> <p>OVER THE PAST TWO YEARS, the Bush administration has inspired one of the more stimulating scavenger hunts in recent memory -- the search for the Ur-theorist of its bold foreign policy initiatives. With each new turn another name has emerged. "Regime change" gave us the political philosopher Leo Strauss. The "shock and awe" campaign brought forth the Cold War calculations of military strategist Albert Wohlstetter. Hints of follow-up aggression against Syria and North Korea had some consulting Trotsky's writings on "permanent revolution."</p>

Nov. 7 — By Joseph Logan BEIRUT (Reuters) - Iraqi intelligence officials seeking a last-minute deal with Washington to avert war appeared to have the backing of Saddam Hussein, a Lebanese businessman who relayed the offer to U.S. officials said on Friday. Imad Hage, who told U.S. officials of proposals to let Washington scour Iraq for weapons of mass destruction and hand over an al Qaeda figure, said the Iraqis were rattled by the threat of war and apparently chose him for his Pentagon contacts. "I had had no prior dealings with him," Hage told Reuters of a meeting in...

Influential Pentagon adviser Richard Perle said on Thursday that Iran was "up to its eyeballs in terrorism" and the United States should quietly be encouraging a democratic revolution from within.

By JAMES RISEN WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 — As American soldiers massed on the Iraqi border in March and diplomats argued about war, an influential adviser to the Pentagon received a secret message from a Lebanese-American businessman: Saddam Hussein wanted to make a deal. Iraqi officials, including the chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, had told the businessman that they wanted Washington to know that Iraq no longer had weapons of mass destruction, and they offered to allow American troops and experts to conduct an independent search. They also offered to hand over a man accused of being involved in the...

BERLIN, Nov 4 (AFP) - Senior US defence adviser Richard Perle urged Germany Tuesday to stop following France on the international political stage and said that the Franco-German relationship is harming ties with the United States. "The idea that Germany must submit to French ideas has to be looked at," Perle told about 200 defence experts gathered in Berlin for a two-day security conference. Perle said the depth of the Franco-German partnership was, at times, further damaging the European Union's already strained relations with Washington. "There is such a strong tendency for France and Germany on every occasion to express...

By Guy Dinmore in Washington Published: October 31 2003 20:22 | Last Updated: October 31 2003 20:22 Confident of his ability to determine the character of a man, President George W. Bush struck up a close relationship with Russia's Vladimir Putin the first time they met more than two years ago, declaring afterwards: "I was able to get a sense of his soul." That bond was strengthened after the al-Qaeda attacks on the US mainland, when the Russian president gave strong backing to the "war on terror". But now there is deep concern among US business and political circles that...

By Simon Saradzhyan Staff Writer Richard Perle, a hawkish policy adviser whose voice is heard in the Pentagon, has called for Russia to be expelled from the Group of Eight industrialized countries over the arrest of Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky. "Russia should be excluded from the G-8. No [other] G-8 country is allowed to treat its leading businessmen the way Russia treated Khodorkovsky," Perle was quoted as saying in Russian translation in the Thursday issue of Kommersant. "I believe Russia is moving fast in the wrong direction." Perle, who believes that the White House should contain the Kremlin rather than...

Richard Perle:"If I were an Israeli I would resent people calling on ther Israelis to risk their lives so that they can live in place rather than other place." "The Saudis have the money to buy a bomb and I think it’s only a matter of time.""The State Department doesn’t see the big picture and it never will.""I’m very dubious about punishing hapless civilians in socities where somebedy else is making the decisions." Photo: Isaac Harari MICHAEL OREN and BRET STEPHENS:-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Perle's horizonsMeet Richard PerleConsider an astonishing fact: Richard Perle has never met Ariel Sharon.It is the second day of the Jerusalem Summit, and Perle is to be awarded a prize in memory of Henry "Scoop‘ Jackson, the late Democratic US Senator...

All political negotiations with the Palestinians are doomed to end in failure until the Palestinian Authority becomes a democratic entity, American strategist and Pentagon adviser Richard Perle said Tuesday. "We will not find peace here until on the Palestinian side a democratic entity is established with which one can negotiate. All negotiations before that time will fail," he told the culmination of the three-day Jerusalem Summit, a gathering of leading conservative thinkers from the US and Israel. An assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan administration, Perle was the recipient the first annual Sen. Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson Award, in...

PARIS (Reuters) - Richard Perle, a leading Pentagon (news - web sites) adviser and architect of the U.S. war to topple Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), said the United States had made mistakes in Iraq (news - web sites) and that power should be handed over to the Iraqis as fast as possible. In an interview with the Le Figaro daily newspaper to be published Thursday, Perle defended the U.S.-led war in Iraq and restated his belief that France had been wrong to lead international opposition to the conflict. "Of course, we haven't done everything right," said Perle, according...

Defense Dept. Program Taking Terror Bets Program Models 'Futures' Markets POSTED: 3:20 p.m. EDT July 28, 2003 A new Department of Defense program allows traders to bet on the likelihood of future terrorist attacks. The department's "Defense Advanced Research Project Agency" designed what it calls the "The Policy Analysis Market." The program works much like the financial markets where traders buy and sell "futures" based on the possibility of a specific event in the Middle East, 11 News reported. Some of the examples listed on the agency's Web site include the assassination of Palestinian leader Yassar Arafat and a missile...