Michael Scheuer Quotes
Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself.
Scheuer, Michael. Interview. "Al Qaeda's New Front." Frontline, PBS, 25 Jan. 2005.
1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor. England had occupied Iraq, expecting to be welcomed by the natives, but like the George W. Bush ill-fated invasion almost a century afterward calls for withdrawal were met by the same rationale for maintaining the occupation. The English policy makers like the Bush administration were expecting a more welcoming reaction. See {585250}.
1st Viscount Millner. A gold strike was causing many British subjects to immigrate to the Transvaal, but the Boers did not want the newcomers to be able to vote and dilute their power. Meanwhile the two cultures--British and Boer--had very different values and differed especially on how they should deal with the indigenous Blacks. The Boers would not reform in the Transvaal as the British wanted, and the Boer War ensued.
His view was that the regime change of ousting Saddam in the Iraq War just exposed the intrinsic ethnic, religious and political problems of Iraq.
This was a private speech he made to his corruption inspectors. At this point in time, there was extensive corruption of the millions of local officials of the ruling Communist Party then a generation of two from the idealism of the original communists who fought in the Chinese Revolution. The common people were beginning to complain and demonstrate against local officials who were making things worse by what even the heavy handed Chinese party leaders considered heavy handed. The inspectors were coming under great pressure as the anti-corruption campaign was producing a blowback from local officials and the corrupt officials were so numerous that they could represent a destabilization threat in a political culture where stability was the highest priority. The anti-corruption campaign was an attempt to regain “party discipline”. See Quotation 643893.
Michael F. Scheuer (born 1952) is an American former intelligence officer for the Central Intelligence Agency, blogger, author, commentator and former adjunct professor at Georgetown University's Center for Peace and Security Studies. One assignment during his 22-year career was serving as Chief of the Bin Laden Issue Station (the Osama bin Laden tracking unit at the Counterterrorism Center, known as "Alec Station") from 1996 to 1999. He also served as Special Advisor to the Chief of Alec Station from September 2001 to November 2004.
