Michael Scheuer Quotes

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• I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable...Yes, I think it's probably a near thing.
• 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 an…
• Sister Virginia used to say, 'You'll be known by the company you keep.'
• Our leaders continue to say that we're making strong headway against this problem. And I think we are not.
• You couldn't have done this without killing an Arab prince.
• No one should be surprised when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda detonate a weapon of mass destruction in the United States. I don't believe…
• A nuclear weapon of some dimension, whether it's actually a nuclear weapon, or a dirty bomb, or some kind of radiological device. Yes, I think…
• I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let…
• Until we respect bin Laden, we are going to die in numbers that are probably unnecessary.
• The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.
• The U.S. intelligence community is palsied by lawyers. When we were going to capture Osama bin Laden, for example, the lawyers were more concerned with…
• No one wants to abandon the Israelis. But I think the perception is, and I think it's probably an accurate perception, that the tail is…
• It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to…
• Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself.
• One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's…
• The uniqueness of the unit was more or less that it was focused on a single individual. It was really the first time the agency…
• The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000…
• We are tangled in a very significant Islamic insurgency in Iraq.
• Saudi Arabia was, until just a few years ago, probably one of the most safe countries on earth. And now the paper is daily full…
• The treatise found that he was perfectly within his rights to use them.

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