Michael Scheuer

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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