Our Worst Nightmare
Former head of the CIA‘s bin Laden unit, Michael Scheuer insists that we‘ve always overestimated the damage we did to al Qaeda in Afghanistan. We won the cities, but didn‘t close the borders and the Taliban and al Qaeda escaped. They have had the past five years to rebuilding and reequipping their forces.
Scheuer claims that the Bush regime really doesn‘t take the transnational terrorist threat seriously. The notion that we‘re going to do with 40,000 troops in Afghanistan what the Soviets couldn‘t do with 150,000 troops is madness.
The next attack that will occur in America, will be planned and orchestrated out of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Scheuer insists that the Iranians are no threat to America unless we provoke them. Iran may be a threat to Israel, they‘re not a threat to the United States.
The threat to our homeland, comes from al Qaeda, who are in Afghanistan and Pakistan. They’ve been there for the past 15 years and we arn‘t treating the Islamist enemy as seriously as we should. Arresting or killing them, one man at a time isn’t going to work.
On 2/19/07, Michael Scheuer unequivocally predicted on “Countdown” with Keith Olbermann, that al Qaeda is “going to detonate a nuclear device inside the United States and we’re going to have absolutely nothing to respond against. It will be a unique situation for a great power, and we’re going to have no one to blame but ourselves".
Scheuer is a former senior member of the U. S. intelligence community and has two decades of experience in national security issues. While with the CIA, he wrote "Imperial Hubris" under the pseudonym Anonymous.
Scheuer warns: "One of the greatest dangers for Americans in deciding how to confront the threat from al Qaeda lies in continuing to believe... Muslims hate us for what we think, rather than for what we do. We repeatedly hear: ( because they hate freedom ) from senior U.S. leaders. Such a conclusion is potentially fatal nonsense".
"The reality is that many of the worlds 1.3 billion Muslims hate us for our actions not our values. Bin Laden has been precise in telling Americans the reason he is waging war on us. He could not enjoy his increasing level of success if Muslims did not believe their faith; brethren; resources and land were under attack by the U.S."
While with the CIA, he was an authority on Afghanistan. In "Imperial Hubris", he wrote: “Unless U.S. led foreign forces are massively increased and are prepared to kill liberally and remain in Afghanistan permanently, the current Afghan regime cannot survive. In Afghanistan, above all other places, familiarity with foreigners breeds not just contempt, but war to the death. The reestablishment of an Islamic regime in Kabul is as close to an inevitability as exists. One hopes that Karzai and the rest of the westernized, secular, and followerless Afghan expatriates we installed in Kabul are able to get out with their lives.”
"Imperial Hubris" explores why they hate us and why our policies and actions are bin Laden's only indispensable allies. Scheuer emphasizes: "We must recognize that our invasion of Iraq was not preemptive; it was an avarice, premeditated, unprovoked war against a foe who posed no immediate threat but whose defeat did offer economic advantages." He wrote "Imperial Hubris" with certainty that: "Al Qaeda will attack the continental U. S. again, that its next strike will be more damaging than 9/11."
Scheuer claims that the Bush regime really doesn‘t take the transnational terrorist threat seriously. The notion that we‘re going to do with 40,000 troops in Afghanistan what the Soviets couldn‘t do with 150,000 troops is madness.
The next attack that will occur in America, will be planned and orchestrated out of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Scheuer insists that the Iranians are no threat to America unless we provoke them. Iran may be a threat to Israel, they‘re not a threat to the United States.
The threat to our homeland, comes from al Qaeda, who are in Afghanistan and Pakistan. They’ve been there for the past 15 years and we arn‘t treating the Islamist enemy as seriously as we should. Arresting or killing them, one man at a time isn’t going to work.
On 2/19/07, Michael Scheuer unequivocally predicted on “Countdown” with Keith Olbermann, that al Qaeda is “going to detonate a nuclear device inside the United States and we’re going to have absolutely nothing to respond against. It will be a unique situation for a great power, and we’re going to have no one to blame but ourselves".
Scheuer is a former senior member of the U. S. intelligence community and has two decades of experience in national security issues. While with the CIA, he wrote "Imperial Hubris" under the pseudonym Anonymous.
Scheuer warns: "One of the greatest dangers for Americans in deciding how to confront the threat from al Qaeda lies in continuing to believe... Muslims hate us for what we think, rather than for what we do. We repeatedly hear: ( because they hate freedom ) from senior U.S. leaders. Such a conclusion is potentially fatal nonsense".
"The reality is that many of the worlds 1.3 billion Muslims hate us for our actions not our values. Bin Laden has been precise in telling Americans the reason he is waging war on us. He could not enjoy his increasing level of success if Muslims did not believe their faith; brethren; resources and land were under attack by the U.S."
While with the CIA, he was an authority on Afghanistan. In "Imperial Hubris", he wrote: “Unless U.S. led foreign forces are massively increased and are prepared to kill liberally and remain in Afghanistan permanently, the current Afghan regime cannot survive. In Afghanistan, above all other places, familiarity with foreigners breeds not just contempt, but war to the death. The reestablishment of an Islamic regime in Kabul is as close to an inevitability as exists. One hopes that Karzai and the rest of the westernized, secular, and followerless Afghan expatriates we installed in Kabul are able to get out with their lives.”
"Imperial Hubris" explores why they hate us and why our policies and actions are bin Laden's only indispensable allies. Scheuer emphasizes: "We must recognize that our invasion of Iraq was not preemptive; it was an avarice, premeditated, unprovoked war against a foe who posed no immediate threat but whose defeat did offer economic advantages." He wrote "Imperial Hubris" with certainty that: "Al Qaeda will attack the continental U. S. again, that its next strike will be more damaging than 9/11."
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