Michael Scheuer

“Bin Laden has been precise in telling America the reasons he is waging war on us.”

“Al-Qaeda is not a terrorist group. It is an insurgency.”

“Our leaders are not listening to what the adversary is saying.”

“There is no greater threat to the long-term viability of the United States than our...bipartisan interventionist foreign policy.”

“The U.S. is not involved in a war on terrorism. It is involved in a war on militant Islam.”

“The protection of American interests at home and abroad is the only national-security job of the U.S. government.”

“They hate us for what we do, not who we are.”

“We're being attacked because we're over there, we're not being attacked because we're over here.”

“The idea of spreading democracy is a fool's errand.”

“What we need is a much more selfish and nationalistic foreign policy.”

“The single biggest lie is that they attack us for our freedoms.”

“The idea that we can kill our way to victory is a fantasy.”

“We are defending a status quo in the Muslim world that is indefensible.”

“We have intervened in their world for fifty years, and we have caused them enormous pain.”