A biography for Richard Perlehasn’t been written yet.
“Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.”
“There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they've been liberated.”
“No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.”
“Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.”