Peter Bergen Quotes
Using vehicles as weapons is a tactic that has often used by Palestinian terrorists to target Israelis, but in 2014, an ISIS spokesman had encouraged such vehicular attacks in the West, saying of ISIS' enemies, 'Run him over with your car.'
Bergen, Peter. "The new terror tactic: Vehicles as weapons." CNN, Cable News Network, 23 Mar. 2017.
This was an incredible admission for the man who was supposed to resolve the Middle East Conflict where Terrorism was the major issue. He of course could define terrorism but as a diplomat felt that it would not be diplomatic to call terrorists “terrorists” if one wanted to discourage them from their terrorism. He also believed that since Hamas and other terrorist organizations had popular backing, they should not be labeled as “terrorists”. His position is typical of those that many in the United States, Israel and other modern democracies criticize about the United Nations. They argue that diplomatic niceties and attempted face-saving produces an organization that stands for little and condones evil.
Objecting to the United States supporting the Kurdish Peshmerga forces attacking ISIS in Syria when they were affiliated with the PKK an organization that used terror tactics to gain independence for Kurds in Turkey.
The health infrastructure of Nigeria was up to the job of containing the Ebola epidemic of 2014, but the police and military, notoriously corrupt, had not joined their services to fight and risk their lives, and would not do so, thus allowing Boko Haram, a radical Islamic terrorist group to thrive in the North of the country where there was a large Muslim population. Finally, in 2015 the government moved against Boko Haram but only with partial success.
Peter Bergen is an American journalist, author, and producer who serves as CNN's national security analyst, New America's vice president, and as a professor of practice at Arizona State University. He produced the first television interview with Osama bin Laden in 1997. The interview, which aired on CNN, was the first time that bin Laden was interviewed by Western media.
