144 Quotes by Michael Scheuer

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 leading the dog – that we are giving the Israelis carte blanche ability to exercise whatever they want to do in their area.

I think one of the most destructive things in terms of American security has been for all of our leaders, without exception in both parties, to identify Osama bin Laden as a gangster or as a madman, as an apocalyptic character who’s out to destroy our civilization.

Our leaders continue to say that we’re making strong headway against this problem. And I think we are not.

Well, there are certain pockets of improvement. The one that I think is most important is that state and local law enforcement levels have started to do a lot more educative efforts within their organizations to understand the kind of threat we’re facing. They’ve given up on the federal level.

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 it’s probably a near thing.

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 a bloody, trying, wasteful, but eventually positive struggle.

I think we’ll see it mostly in the United States. We’re getting to the point where al Qaeda is ready to again attack us inside America. I think we’re basically defenseless.

We’re being attacked, Britain is being attacked, our allies are being attacked because we’ve installed and backed and implemented a set of policies in the Middle East for the last years or more.

'The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.