Politics Quotes by Michael Scheuer

9 Politics quotes by Michael Scheuer

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Michael Scheuer’s eight statements draw from his background in intelligence, offering a compact view of his stance on security and foreign policy.

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There is no way to avoid the reality that the American government in the past years has been the most spectacularly hypocrisy-driven…

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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…

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We [Americans] continue to be harangued by politicians about how Americans must fight this war because we're being attacked because we have…

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Our relationship with Israel is another reason we're being attacked. But an American politician - whether Muslim or not - who criticizes…

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They [politicians] have defined the war simply in terms of the detonation of explosives. When you look at the broader picture, America…

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In terms of Iraq, al Qaeda valued Iraq because we destroyed a government it wanted destroyed and because we put soldiers on…

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But more important, I think, is the criticism bin Laden has made publicly over the past 10 years that Muslim governments cannot…

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Although my own view is that bin Laden does not want to stage an attack that looks like 9/11 in Europe simply…

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The U.S. intelligence community is palsied by lawyers. When we were going to capture Osama bin Laden, for example, the lawyers were…

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Iraq, for the first time, gives al Qaeda and its allies contiguous safe-haven territory to train and launch attacks into the Levant. First into…

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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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