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<p>The swift military defeat of the Iraqi regime by U.S.-led forces represents a dramatic foreign policy victory for the evolving worldview called "neoconservatism."</p> <p>"Neoconservative ideas have penetrated very deeply and have tremendous influence," said Michael Joyce, who from the late 1970s until his retirement last year was the most powerful financial backer of the movement.</p>

PARIS (Reuters) - Pentagon adviser Richard Perle, a key architect of the U.S.-led drive to topple Saddam Hussein, was quoted on Friday as saying Washington would pursue other states in its crackdown on global terrorism. "The military interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq are part of efforts to fight against terrorism," Perle told the French newspaper Les Echos. "We are not going to stop there. We shall continue to fight against countries who harbor terrorists and develop weapons of mass destruction." The neo-conservative said the U.N. Security Council was ill-suited to dealing with such threats and should be reformed. He also...

Perle, Frum Combining by John F. Baker -- 4/21/2003 Two Washington insiders who have been strong supporters of the president and his war policy, Richard Perle and David Frum, are writing a book together that may answer some questions many people have now that we've taken Iraq: What's next in the "war on terror"? That's what they will discuss in the untitled book just signed by Random's Jonathan Karp, who hopes to publish at the beginning of next year. Karp bought North American rights in the combo from Jennifer Rudolph Walsh at William Morris. Perle is, of course, the hawkish...

Saddam's regime falls in Baghdad; UN falls in New York. Good!By Richard PerleMonday, Apr 14, 2003,Page 9 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's reign of terror is about to end. His Baathist government, however, will not go alone. In a fitting irony, the UN is going down with him. Perhaps the entire UN will not disappear. Those parts devoted to "good works" (ie, the low-risk peacekeeping bureaucracies or those that fight AIDs and malaria or protect children) will remain. The looming chatterbox on New York's East River will also continue to bleat. What died with the UN Security Council's unwillingness to sanction...

On the threats of the 21st Century: They have to do largely with acts of terror and potential acts of terror utilizing weapons of mass destruction. No-one is now concerned as we were during the Cold War about acts of aggression across national borders. The concern today is the combination of terrorist organizations and rogue states. This has given rise to an essential idea about how to respond, which has been derided. That essential idea is preemption. The mechanisms of collective security at the United Nations are inadequate and only the possibility of preemption can give us a reasonable prospect...

U.S. adviser Perle warns Syria over Iraqi weapons LONDON, April 12 (Reuters) - Pentagon adviser Richard Perle, a key architect of the U.S.-led drive to topple Saddam Hussein, said in remarks published on Saturday Syria would be a possible military target if it was found harbouring Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. In an interview with the International Herald Tribune newspaper, Perle said that if such weapons were found on Syrian soil "I'm quite sure we would have to respond to that." "It would be an act of such foolishness on Syria's part," Perle said. "Our first approach would be to...

US Senate Panel Plans Look at Global Crossing Sale Mon Apr 7, 2:00 PM ET LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee plans to look into Global Crossing Ltd.'s planned sale of a majority stake to two Asian firms, the chairman of the panel's communications subcommittee said on Monday. The bankrupt fiber-optic network operator wants to sell a 61.5 percent stake to Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. of Hong Kong and Singapore Technologies Telemedia Pte., but national security officials have raised concerns about Hutchison's close ties to China. "We know the issue is out there and ... we're going to...

Sunday, April 6, 2003 P-I Focus: The road the U.S. traveled to Baghdad was paved by 'Scoop' Jackson The hawks' hawk ROGER MORRIS America's attack on Iraq started 65 years ago in the wooded curving inlets and gentle fog of Snohomish County. At least that's one genealogy of the war, curling back through closed-door politics where so much of U.S. history happens. Nineteen thirty-eight was the year Henry Martin Jackson, an ambitious 26-year-old Democrat from Everett fresh out of the University of Washington Law School, was elected prosecuting attorney for Snohomish County. As usual, few outside Washington state noticed the...

How Little We Know By John Corry Published 4/4/2003 12:38:00 AM Say this about Richard Perle: He is not hobbled by inconsistencies, and he keeps his eye on the big picture. Perle, who stepped down recently as chairman of the Defense Policy Board after allegations he had a conflict of interest, although he will still remain on the board, is a longtime advocate of regime change in the Middle East: Iraq today, and Syria and Saudi Arabia tomorrow. The precise ways of doing this, however, have been unclear, and to Perle and his like-minded colleagues they seem to be irrelevant....

<p>Last week I resigned my position as chairman of the advisory Defense Policy Board after news stories, rich in innuendo, suggested that I had acted improperly in advising Global Crossing (the New York Times) and, in a separate matter, in meeting over lunch with two Saudi businessmen (The New Yorker). They provoked an avalanche of stories, mostly repeating points in those first two, with each iteration making more extreme allegations than the last. There was no way I could quickly quell the press criticism of me, even though it was based on factual errors and tendentious reporting. So I wrote to Donald Rumsfeld, "I have seen controversies like this before and I know that this one will inevitably distract from the urgent challenge in which you are now engaged. I would not wish to cause even a moment's distraction from that challenge."</p>

<p>Last week I resigned my position as chairman of the advisory Defense Policy Board after news stories, rich in innuendo, suggested that I had acted improperly in advising Global Crossing (the New York Times) and, in a separate matter, in meeting over lunch with two Saudi businessmen (The New Yorker). They provoked an avalanche of stories, mostly repeating points in those first two, with each iteration making more extreme allegations than the last. There was no way I could quickly quell the press criticism of me, even though it was based on factual errors and tendentious reporting. So I wrote to Donald Rumsfeld, "I have seen controversies like this before and I know that this one will inevitably distract from the urgent challenge in which you are now engaged. I would not wish to cause even a moment's distraction from that challenge."</p>

WASHINGTON, March 28 — While he led an influential Pentagon advisory board, Richard N. Perle advised a major American satellite maker, Loral Space and Communications, as it faced government accusations that it improperly transferred rocket technology to China, administration officials said today. Officials at the State Department said that the senior official considering how to resolve the rocket matter, Assistant Secretary Lincoln P. Bloomfield Jr., was contacted by Mr. Perle once or twice in the second half of 2001 on behalf of the company. At the time, Mr. Bloomfield, who heads the State Department's bureau of political-military affairs, and other...

WASHINGTON, March 27 (UPI) -- A top adviser to U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and one of the intellectual architects of the war with Iraq resigned his post Thursday amid an ethics controversy. Richard Perle resigned his chairmanship of the Defense Policy Board but is remaining a member of the board, according to the Pentagon. "With our nation at war and American troops risking their lives to protect our freedom and liberate Iraq, I am dismayed that your valuable time, and that of others in the Department of Defense and the administration might be burdened by the controversy surrounding my...

Richard Perle's booking agency, Benador Associates (friendly, with bio) Richard Perle PBS interview, Gunning for Saddam (friendly; prewar interview says in paraphrase war would be easy - "tiny fraction" of Gulf War I forces) Seymour Hersh New Yorker article on Richard Perle (raises questions of conflict of interest with Saudis and Iraq war) Richard Perle National Review article (friendly - March 7 prewar optimistic interview says a war would be won "in a month") Richard Perle and Global Crossing (raises conflict of interest questions) Global Crossing and Communist China's Foray Into US Telecommunications Infrastructure (raises conflict of interest questions) More...

<p>Richard N. Perle is chairman of the Defense Policy Board. Although an unpaid position, it is highly influential and prestigious and fully subject to government ethics conflict-of-interest regulations. Mr. Perle also has been hired by the telecommunications company Global Crossing for a six-figure fee to lobby the Department of Defense on behalf of the bankrupt company for an important concession.</p>

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Even before President Bush had placed Iraq on his "axis of evil," dire warnings were being sounded about the danger of acting against Saddam Hussein's regime. Two knowledgeable Brookings Institution analysts, Philip H. Gordon and Michael E. O'Hanlon, concluded that the United States would "almost surely" need "at least 100,000 to 200,000" ground forces [op-ed, Dec. 26, 2001]. Worse: "Historical precedents from Panama to Somalia to the Arab-Israeli wars suggest that . . . the United States could lose thousands of troops in the process." I agree that taking down Hussein would differ from taking down the Taliban. And no ...

Critics of the Bush Administration's decision to liberate the Iraqi people from Saddam Hussein are getting an earful from supporters of the president's decision.News reports say along their journey toward Baghdad, allied forces have been welcomed by Iraqi civilians throughout the southern areas of that country. In the north, even more outpourings of "welcome" have erupted. Richard Perle of the American Enterprise Institute says critics of the U.S.-led war effort need to take notice of how many of the allied forces are being greeted."The naysayers were simply wrong," Perle states. "This is a war not of occupation or conquest, but...

Question: There's a debate or conversation that goes on during the years that the Republicans are out of office, leading up to some extent, I suppose, to the much talked about '98 letter that you signed and Rumsfeld signed, and Wolfowitz signed, and Kristol signed, which went to Clinton saying, "Iraq is still a problem. It needs to be dealt with in some way or another." Give us a glimpse of the debate, the conversation among your circle, people that you were working with, about this specific issue. Perle: Well, there was a broad consensus about what should be done...

<p>NEW YORK--The timing couldn't have been better. The U.S. is soon likely to go to war in Iraq in no small part because of the arguments of thinkers who have graced the pages of Commentary magazine over the years, opposing appeasement and urging a strong U.S. military presence in the world--to face down tyrants and spread democracy. And here was the City University of New York hosting a conference this week to discuss the 57-year-old magazine and its legacy.</p>