Richard Perle Quotes
When you play blackmail, you are asking for more blackmail.
Many critics of the neoconservatives like Perle observed that if we were negotiating with friends and allies and they made demands or exacted a high price for what we wanted, this was viewed as diplomacy and give and take was appropriate. But when states which were not friends and whose government we did not approve of, made demands or exacted a high price for what we wanted, this was viewed as “blackmail” and should never be acceded to. Negotiations with those states those became extremely difficult if neoconservatives were controlling or influencing the negotiating tactics and strategy.
Richard Perle, Assistant Secretary of State (Republican), Referring to giving in to North Korea demands for Western food, funds, and technology so that they would not develop nuclear weapons, PBS Frontline, Kim’s Nuclear Gamble, June 7, 2007
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Richard Norman Perle is an American political advisor who served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs under President Ronald Reagan. He began his political career as a senior staff member to Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson on the Senate Armed Services Committee in the 1970s. He served on the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee from 1987 to 2004 where he served as chairman from 2001 to 2003 under the Bush Administration before resigning due to conflict of interests.
