If the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies were private companies and were chronically unable to accomplish one of their key missions,… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Trump displays many of the traits of a proto-fascist, and he is also part of a wave of right-wing nationalist movements that… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Trump has long been a fan of Vladimir Putin but seems to be unaware that Russia's goal in Syria is simply the… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Trump has long said he favors a 'safe zone' in Syria to prevent Basher al Assad's regime from carrying out indiscriminate airstrikes… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Bin Laden's death is just a punctuation point on a set of problems they've had for a long time. I think the… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Sheikh Rahman had a doctorate in Islamic jurisprudence from al-Azhar University in Cairo, the Harvard of Islamic thought. He also had a… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
So Pakistan is a country that I'm very fond of and have spent a lot of time, but it is a country where conspiracy… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The Trump administration launched the cruise missile strikes in Syria, an act of war, without a U.N. resolution or Congressional authorization. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The deep problems that afflict the Middle East are not easy to fix, but they must be dealt with if we are not to… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The dirty little secret of the intelligence world is that much of what you really need to know isn't exactly a secret anyway. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Abedi appears to be one of the many thousands of Western Muslims who have embraced militant Islam, often as a way of trying to… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Trump has claimed he knows more about ISIS than America's leading generals. Clearly, this is also total nonsense; he doesn't seem to have done… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
If you don't understand what al Qaeda was trying to do on 9/11, if you don't have a sense of who Osama bin Laden… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
As early as 1993, members of bin Laden's group had been planning an attack on the American Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The reality is that Trump's focus on immigrants is to misconceive of the terrorist problem that exists in the United States. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
ISIS despises the Russian government for its support of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, and so it's no surprise that ISIS began targeting Russia… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
The Sunni militants that make up ISIS are not the underlying problem in Syria and Iraq, but rather they are a symptom of other… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Keeping a relatively small, predominantly U.S. Special Forces presence in Afghanistan to continue to train the Afghan army past December 2016 is a wise… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
