Destroying Iraq was the greatest strategic blunder this country has made in its history. Unless we change course, there's every reason to believe the Iraq War will end up changing the United States more than it will ever change Iraq.

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

I truly believe that if torture had worked and there was a case to be made for it, we would see that on the front pages of the American press.

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.

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

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.