Ex-CIA Agent: America creates its own enemies, page 1

Americans are in the crosshairs of terrorists worldwide purely due to Washington's policy in the Muslim world, not because there is an Islamic enemy whose only aim is to kill Americans for their freedoms and lifestyle, insists a former CIA officer. Historian Michael Scheuer, an author of "Through our enemies' eyes", who worked for the agency for over 20 years till 2004 and at one time was the chief of the CIA's 'Bin Laden unit', says America's greatest enemy -- radical Islam -- never existed: neither when Bin Laden was alive, nor now.

This is the guy Ron Paul references in the Foreign Policy chapter of his book.

My question is, how does this position reconcile with 9/11?

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My question is, how does this position reconcile with 9/11?

What does this mean?

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Interesting interview, though nothing new to most of us here on ATS.

The only problem I have with his stance (which I have heard from others such as Lawrence Wilkerson as well) is that he seems to blame the situation, in large part, on the incompetence of Washington.Of course, perhaps there is some truth to this... seriously, one only need to look at the pool of potential presidential candidates in the GOP race to see that a high IQ is certainly not a condition for the job!

However, it is almost inconceivable to me, that there is not a guiding hand, somewhere in the policy making machine, which is perfectly happy with these eternal enemies, and, in fact, might not exist without them. (Of course, I am also a member of ATS, so perhaps I am biased!?!)

Anyhow, it is always nice to hear a message, many of us know to be based on common sense and historical precedence to be heard... lord knows that we aren't hearing this in the mainstream media, or from capitol hill!
(Except those three, or so, lonely voices: Bernie Sanders, Denis Kucinich and Ron Paul... oh yeah and Barrack Obama BEFORE he got into the White House!)

the Billmeister

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My question is, how does this position reconcile with 9/11?

What does this mean?

Yes that is what it means. Carry on.

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How intereseting, because late last night, I was thinking about "Al CIAda" and all of the things that have resulted from 9/11 in the past couple of years. Imagine that you're an incredibly wealthy and powerful organizatiion of people that controls the media and members of the government.

If you create some shadowy organization that you have attack someplace, you can play out your agenda. This attack can be used to justify many things that otherwise would not have been allowed to occur. Wars, legislation that spies on the people and takes away their rights, new government agencies, you name it.

It's actually really simple, but evidently very effective as well.

Ah and Alex Jones basically sums up my thoughts with a simple analogy in this clip. Skip to 7:30 in this clip:

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