US Vulnerability Quotes

The United States now sleeps under a Soviet moon

I believe America's chief strategic vulnerability is our dependence on imported petroleum.

The rest of the world sees America as weak.

Al Qaeda will always focus on us, the United States. And they will take advantage of any situation.

[The US is] naked, absolutely nude, to attack [by the Soviets].

There's every reason to believe there will be further attacks attempted against the United States. For us to spend so much time patting ourselves on the back because we got bin Laden that we miss the next attack would be a terrible tragedy.

We think that something has to be done against the United States…. When you do something to the United States they are going to retaliate. But the United States is not as powerful as it's made out to be.

The Israelis have taken a lot of security measures which reduce significantly the ability of Iran to inflict truly severe pain in Israel. But America is vulnerable with 100,000 troops in Iraq and more than half of that in Afghanistan, and we depend heavily on access to Middle Eastern oil. We're sitting targets for debilitating Iranian retaliation.