There is a tendency in any conflict, especially in a democracy, to fight the enemy you can, not the enemy you should.

The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally.

I take my own experience and other assassinations through history and get a lot into the drone program, which doesn't work, as well.

My take on the torture thing and even drones is: If we're going to get into assassination and torture, the second question is the morality, but the first is the effectiveness of it.

The first suicide bombing that entered my consciousness was the Beirut embassy bombing. It was very personal. I'd been in the embassy and I knew most of the people in the station who were killed in the bombing. So you take the personal aspect of it and the mystery of who the bomber was and the fact that a small group of people could drive us out of a country that was absolutely key to the United States, and what was behind this... The fact that they've been able to hide the embassy bombers' identities for all these years tells me we're up against a very capable movement.

Bethlehem was God with us, Calvary was God for us, and Pentecost is God in us.

It seems to me it's always the evil we refuse to see that does us the greatest harm.