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 morality, but the first is the effectiveness of it. — 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
