“I think the world is more perilous and America is basically undefended. For me the two touchstones after 9/11 for domestic security were our borders. Not for discriminatory reasons or to stop immigration, but simply to allow law enforcement to find out who is in our country without facing an undocumented pool of aliens that increases by the hour.” ThinkingWorldTwoCountryReasonAmericaLawHoursSecurityIncreaseImmigrationOur CountryAliensBordersPoolLaw EnforcementEnforcementTouchstones Author:Michael Scheuer
“They [politicians] have defined the war simply in terms of the detonation of explosives. When you look at the broader picture, America is mired in two wars that we're losing at the moment. We have a political environment that is as poisonous as anything I've seen, at least since the end of Vietnam.” LooksTwoWarEndsMomentsAmericaPoliticalTermEnvironmentPoliticianLosingDefinedVietnamExplosivesPoisonousPolitical Environment Author:Michael Scheuer
“The whole importance of Iraq is that we have now created two things. One, Iraq is in the Arab heartland in terms of an attraction for people who want to fight the Americans and their allies. It's far greater than anything Afghanistan was aftertheSoviets invaded. It's easy to get to, there's no trouble with languages.” PeopleWantTwoWholeFightingLanguageEasyTermGreaterTroubleImportanceIraqAttractionTwo ThingsAlliesAfghanistanEasy To Get Author:Michael Scheuer
“One of the problems of not allowing the American people to read what bin Laden has said is that in October 2001 just after the war began in Afghanistan, he gave a speech that had two parts to it.” PeopleSaidTwoWarProblemSpeechAllowingAfghanistanBin LadenOctober Author:Michael Scheuer
“The major problem for America is we're losing two wars. We're losing in Afghanistan, we're losing in Iraq. And there seems very little likelihood that we're going to increase the number of troops we have in either place to the point that we can prevail.” LittlesTwoWarProblemSeemsAmericaNumbersMajorsLosingIncreaseIraqAfghanistanTroopsLikelihoodMajor Problems Author:Michael Scheuer
“In an odd way, we have really destroyed two of our strongest allies against the Islamists. Saddam Hussein, and we've probably fatally undermined Bashir al Assad in Syria.” WayTwoDestroyedOddStrongestAlsAlliesSyriaSaddamHusseinAssadIslamists Author:Michael Scheuer
“We have not destroyed al Qaeda, so we still have that to worry about. We have its traditional allies, the Kashmiri groups, the groups that are operating now in Iraq, and now we have a third tier of threat amongst the Muslims that live in the West and who are inspired to do something against the West by the example of the other two tiers.” StillsTwoWorryGroupsExampleThirdsThreatWestInspiredIraqTraditionalDestroyedAlsAlliesAl Qaeda Author:Michael Scheuer
“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.” WorldTryingTwoWarAmericaReligiousStruggleGoneSlaveryWar Of The WorldsCivil WarBloodySegregationThoroughTwo WorldsReligious Wars Author:Michael Scheuer
