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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.

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’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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The FBI continues to be a broken, anachronistic organization, but state and local law enforcement officials are much more attuned to the kind of threat we’re facing. I think that’s very hopeful, but it’s a long-term process.