"...the conflict with Islamic extremism will continue to spiral without a fundamental rethink of US priorities in Iraq and a relationship with Israel that "drains resources, earns Muslim hatred and serves no vital US national interest".
It seems that Mike Scheuer, senior intelligence office at the CIA just doesn't get the fact that Islam wants to wipe all infadels off the face of the planet. How can someone who is in charge of the "Bin Laden Issue Station" still be buying into the PC crapola about Islam being a "religion of peace".
The fact that we exist as a free society, with religious freedom is the reason that the islamists want to kill us now, and will always want to terrorize and kill us. It does not matter one iota that we have an alliance with Israel, it just makes the islamists job much more difficult. If we were to cut all ties with Israel and the Islamics were to take over the land and people in Israel.....guess what the U.S. would be next!!! So our ties with Israel make no difference, it is just another excuse that the Islamics use to bolster their hatred against us.
The scary part is that Mr. Scheuer and those like him who are in charge of helping gather intelligence and protecting the U.S., are still playing the blame game...with the U.S. as the main source of their blame...once again the enemy within.
Agreed. Scheuer and his ilk stubbornly cling to the same old and long disproven premises. The fundamentalist Islamics (terrorists) don't care a fig what we do or do not do: they hate us and want us dead.