I think war should be illegal.
If democracy brings an undemocratic group to power, is that a victory for democracy?
An Egyptian newspaper once publicly identified me as the C.I.A. station chief in Cairo. It seemed so stupid at the time. I was only 24, a little young to be a station chief, and, of course, I was never with the C.I.A.
When you look at – when you talk to people in Africa and across the Middle East, they’re not satisfied with the way things are going. Sure, this idea of democracy was injected into the region, but it has brought mostly chaos.
Unfortunately, the American policy towards Pakistan is just to worry and express concern, and that is not a clear policy at all.
Hamas has long been Israel’s enemy, but in the wake of the Arab Spring, the group is empowered like never before.
We know that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has some very dangerous, very important leaders who are tied directly to the top leadership of al Qaeda central, including a man who was formerly Osama bin Laden’s secretary.
I don’t think you’re going to be seeing the U.S. employing large army divisions to deal with small terrorist groups again. I don’t think they’re going to be occupying foreign nations in order to dry up terrorist groups within them. I think that lesson has been learned.
The Syrians are better suited to sort out their internal divisions than anyone else.
Every war has its demons.
I had some training on how to cope with hostage-taking.
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