Richard Perle

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. ↗

— Richard Perle

#assign #commander #computer #could #done

Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another. ↗

— Richard Perle

#american #another #claim #community #members

Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far Left and far Right. ↗

— Richard Perle

#cause #common #common cause #exclude #extremists

Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies. ↗

— Richard Perle

#admission #american #bars #law #now

Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others. ↗

— Richard Perle

#objectionable #others #sometimes #things

The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation's greatest vulnerabilities in the war on terror. ↗

— Richard Perle

#citizens #fellow #fellow citizens #greatest #lax

The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us. ↗

— Richard Perle

#european #european governments #governments #hesitated #more

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. ↗

— Richard Perle

#close #doubt #exception #iraq #liberated

We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion. ↗

— Richard Perle

#difference #dissent #eager #lose #may

We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe. ↗

— Richard Perle

#british #europe #independence #must #our