Occasionally, Donald Trump says something that is politically incorrect but which also happens to be true. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
There is no hint that Trump wishes to engage in or to foment violence against the enemies, such as immigrants, he has… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Candidate Trump had previously opined that 'Islam hates us' and had called for 'the total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Since Trump is not quick to forgive the merest of slights, it's hard to imagine him calling on any of the officials… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Trump's pronounced anti-immigrant stance is reminiscent of both Le Pen in France and Orban in Hungary, although he is far from alone… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
America has not traditionally been the cramped, frightened country of Trump's executive order that bans Syrian refugees. — 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
Donald Trump's own mother Mary escaped the bone-crushing poverty of Scotland's remote Outer Hebrides for the promise of New York in 1929. — 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
A little exposure to a city like Sulaimani will help Trump understand that the Middle East is a much more complex place… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
President-elect Donald Trump has a host of national security challenges to deal with as he assumes office, from the resurgence of the… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Trump himself has not laid out a clear agenda on the national security issues that are the most pressing for the United… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
During the campaign, Trump in many ways repudiated President Obama's national security and foreign policy approach on issues like the Iran nuclear… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
If the party of Lincoln wishes to become the party of intolerance, selecting Trump to be its presidential candidate is a good… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
One of the themes of 'The Longest War,' my book, which came out before the Arab spring happened, was how al-Qaida and bin Laden… — Peter Bergen Copy Share
Because 9/11 was carried out by 19 foreign-born Arab hijackers, many assume that all terrorists who attack the West are foreigners. — Peter Bergen Copy Share
I was the only outsider to visit the Abbottabad compound where bin Laden lived before the Pakistani military demolished it. — Peter Bergen Copy Share
