Robert Baer Quotes
If you want prisoners to be tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear – never to see them again – you send them to Egypt.
I take my own experience and other assassinations through history and get a lot into the drone program, which doesn't work, as well.
There is a tendency in any conflict, especially in a democracy, to fight the enemy you can, not the enemy you should.
Egypt is the next domino to fall and, as they say, so goes Egypt so goes the Middle East.
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.
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.
Did bin Laden act alone, through his own al-Qaida network, in launching the attacks? About that I'm far more certain and emphatic: no.