Michael Scheuer

You cannot possibly expect even the most illiterate person on Earth to believe that you really want a democracy in Iraq while…

— Michael Scheuer

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.

— Michael Scheuer

If you look at groups in the Palestine region, Hamas and the Palestine Islamic jihad, more often than not in their first…

— Michael Scheuer

What we face is a scared populace, and because it's scared, it's willing to put up with what I think are inevitably…

— Michael Scheuer

Islam is a civilization that is fractured linguistically, ethnically, sectarian-wise, as ours is. What bin Laden has done, though, is to identify…

— Michael Scheuer

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

— Michael Scheuer

There is a direct correlation between what al Qaeda says and what it does. And the one thing that has been the…

— Michael Scheuer

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

— Michael Scheuer

One of the problems of not allowing the American people to read what bin Laden has said is that in October 2001…

— Michael Scheuer

The second part of that war was that Muslims came from all over the country to Pakistan, and they met each other.…

— Michael Scheuer

One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't…

— Michael Scheuer

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

— Michael Scheuer

And when you say the policies are what caused this war - American policies - that's not to say that they're wrong.…

— Michael Scheuer

I've said before: If Osama bin Laden was a Christian, Iraq was the Christmas present he always wanted but never expected his…

— Michael Scheuer

So in a sense, that little war in the Levant had a horrendous effect in terms of the stability of countries like…

— Michael Scheuer

The FBI continues to be a broken, anachronistic organization, but state and local law enforcement officials are much more attuned to the…

— Michael Scheuer

If the Americans attack Iran for the first time in 1,400 years, we may unite Sunnis and Shias against us. So I…

— Michael Scheuer

We have not destroyed al Qaeda, so we still have that to worry about. We have its traditional allies, the Kashmiri groups,…

— Michael Scheuer

But the Iranians are surrounded by a sea of Sunnis who hate them. And if you look on the map, you can…

— Michael Scheuer

No one should be surprised when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda detonate a weapon of mass destruction in the United States.…

— Michael Scheuer

I think what history will show is that one of the most tragic results of the war in Iraq will be that…

— Michael Scheuer

The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down…

— Michael Scheuer

Initial incompetence is not a reason to be dismissive of capabilities. Al Qaeda itself was incompetent when it started as a terrorist…

— Michael Scheuer

He [Osama bin Laden] is clearly an odd combination of a 12th-century theologian and a 21st-century CEO. He runs an absolutely unique…

— Michael Scheuer

When you cut down to the micro-level in the West, I think we have a great deal to be worried about. And…

— Michael Scheuer