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9 Country quotes by Michael Scheuer

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If you’re looking for a quick glimpse into how a veteran foreign‑policy observer frames the idea of nationhood, this handful of Michael Scheuer’s remarks offers a concise, no‑frills perspective. Each line cuts straight to the core of his thinking, making the set a solid starter for anyone curious about his take on country.

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I don't know what our capabilities are. If I were there, I think it would be nutty to do that. The only…

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What we face is a scared populace, and because it's scared, it's willing to put up with what I think are inevitably…

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I think the world is more perilous and America is basically undefended. For me the two touchstones after 9/11 for domestic security…

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So in a sense, that little war in the Levant had a horrendous effect in terms of the stability of countries like…

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The Western world doesn't really give enough credit to the importance in history of the Soviet invasion and the subsequent war in…

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The second part of that war was that Muslims came from all over the country to Pakistan, and they met each other.…

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We now have some years of very reliable polling by Western firms in the Islamic world, in multiple Islamic countries. And invariably,…

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I think what history will show is that one of the most tragic results of the war in Iraq will be that…

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Every mujahadeen who comes in from outside the country finds an environment where Arabic is spoken. So in that sense, it's a…

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Well, there are certain pockets of improvement. The one that I think is most important is that state and local law enforcement levels have…

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You become an anti-Semite. And as powerful as the Israeli lobby is, the Saudi lobby is just as powerful. In fact, the Saudis probably…

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Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history.

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I know these days it sounds a little odd, but American governments are very fearful of European reaction. They were afraid we would be…

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The whole importance of Iraq is that we have now created two things. One, Iraq is in the Arab heartland in terms of an…

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Bin Laden does reprehensible activities, and we should surely take care of that by killing him as soon as we can. But he's not…

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The uniqueness of the unit was more or less that it was focused on a single individual. It was really the first time the…

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I think it's very instructive to look at a man like Ramsey Ahmad Yousef, who almost brought down the World Trade Center in 1993.…

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The treatise found that he was perfectly within his rights to use them.

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Every mujahadeen who comes in from outside the country finds an environment where Arabic is spoken. So in that sense, it's a tremendous come-on…

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We've gone thorough religious wars and civil wars. America has gone through slavery, we've all gone through two world wars, segregation. Ultimately it's been…

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I don't know what our capabilities are. If I were there, I think it would be nutty to do that. The only country on…

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One of the reasons they didn't go to Bosnia, bin Laden has explained extensively, was because they couldn't establish a base anywhere. Not in…

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Where he was, where his cells were, where his logistical channels were, how he communicated. Who his allies were. Who donated to them. I…

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