Destroying Iraq was the greatest strategic blunder this country has made in its history. Unless we change course, there's every reason to believe the Iraq War will end up changing the United States more than it will ever change Iraq. — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
The US have dealt with Iran. I'm not saying attack it; I'm saying we should have taken it seriously. The Iranian connection to 9/11… — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
I don't trust American intelligence. You look at the torture report from the Senate: People inside the CIA are saying that it doesn't work,… — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
“On one level, Americans are too distant from the Middle East, too naive to understand its complexities and history. On another, it's the people… — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
If you want prisoners to be tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear – never to see them again… — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
The first suicide bombing that entered my consciousness was the Beirut embassy bombing. It was very personal. I'd been in the embassy and I… — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
There is a tendency in any conflict, especially in a democracy, to fight the enemy you can, not the enemy you should. — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
Did bin Laden act alone, through his own al-Qaida network, in launching the attacks? About that I'm far more certain and emphatic: no. — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
Egypt is the next domino to fall and, as they say, so goes Egypt so goes the Middle East. — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
Bethlehem was God with us, Calvary was God for us, and Pentecost is God in us. — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
I truly believe that if torture had worked and there was a case to be made for it, we would see that on the… — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
Destroying Iraq was the greatest strategic blunder this country has made in its history. Unless we change course, there's every reason to believe the… — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
I take my own experience and other assassinations through history and get a lot into the drone program, which doesn't work, as well. — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
My take on the torture thing and even drones is: If we're going to get into assassination and torture, the second question is the… — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
It seems to me it's always the evil we refuse to see that does us the greatest harm. — Robert Baer Copy Share Image
