Michael Ledeen Quotes
Once upon a time, it might have been possible to deal with Iraq alone, without having to face the murderous forces of the other terror masters in Tehran, Damascus, and Riyadh, but that time has passed. Iraq is a battle, not a war. We have to win the war, and the only way to do that is to bring down the terror masters, and spread freedom throughout the region.
The neoconservatives at the time, not only urged the invasion of Iraq, but no sooner did it take place than Ledeen and other neoconservatives were calling for the invasion of other countries in the Middle East that were controlled by dictators.
Michael Ledeen, Historian, Philosopher, Foreign Policy Analyst, Consultant to the U. S. National Security Council, Department of State, and the Department of Defense., Author and Intelligence official, Op Ed, New York Sun, March 19, 2003
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Michael Arthur Ledeen is an American historian, neoconservative foreign policy analyst, and author with a PhD in philosophy. He is a former consultant to the United States National Security Council, the United States Department of State, and the United States Department of Defense. He held the Freedom Scholar chair at the American Enterprise Institute where he was a scholar for twenty years and now holds the similarly named chair at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
