Scheuer: Obama 'Doesn't Have a Clue' about Terror Threat to America

Thursday, September 10, 2009 7:11 PM

By: Jim Meyers

Eight years after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, the U.S. is still in "terrible shape" in the fight against terrorism, former CIA counterterrorism expert Michael Scheuer tells Newsmax.

Scheuer also said President Barack Obama "doesn't have a clue" about the realities of world terrorism.

Scheuer, whose latest book is "Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq," spent several years as head of the CIA's Osama bin Laden unit.

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Newsmax.TV's Kathleen Walter asked Scheuer why the U.S. still has not captured bin Laden.

"I think we are doing all we can with the number of troops and intelligence officers we have committed in Afghanistan," he said.

"Very few of them have time anymore to go after Osama bin Laden because they're trying to keep [President Hamid] Karzai in power and trying to build a democracy and trying to fight an insurgency.

"Mister Bush never sent enough people to Afghanistan, and very clearly as the situation has gotten worse Mister Obama does not intend to send enough people either.

"The reason we don't have him I think is simply we don’t have enough troops on the ground to find him and he's living in a place that has the highest mountains on earth."

Walter asked if the U.S. is safer or more vulnerable eight years after the 9/11 attacks.

"I think we would be hard put to say we're much safer than we were in 2001," Scheuer responded.

"We still don’t have an idea of where our enemy is. We're clearly on the defensive in Afghanistan. And if you step back and take a bigger look at the world, there are terrorists now being produced in places where there were no insurgencies back in 2001 — Somalia, Yemen, Mindanao in the Philippines.

"We're still faced with a situation that I think neither party has come to grips with...

"I think we're in terrible shape right now. We have to remember that al-Qaida's war goals are to help lead us to bankruptcy, to spread out our military forces and our intelligence services, and to create dissension in politics here at home. They're succeeding on all three of those.

"The key thing any administration has to do is control our borders, to close them and then regulate the entry of people, to give U.S. law enforcement at all levels a chance to figure out who is in our country and who is entering it."

Asked what the U.S. should do to slow down the spread of terrorism, Scheuer said: "At some point we need to begin to consider applying more military force when the option is presented to us. Certainly in Afghanistan we have a wide scope for killing many more of the enemy than we are.

"We also have to look at our problems with policy. Our foreign policy is really an inducement, a motivation for the enemy."

At the top of the list in that regard "is not healthcare, it's energy," he added. "We need to do something about energy to be able to disassociate ourselves from the tyrannies that govern the Middle East."

Walter asked what credit the Bush administration deserves for the fact the U.S. has not suffered another devastating terrorist attack since 9/11.

"I think we owe the Bush administration a vote of thanks for doing they thought was best to do in America's interests," Scheuer said.

"I was a severe critic of what they did because they didn’t do enough, but I never had any doubt in my mind that they were really intent on defending America. I thought they did it inadequately but I thought they intended to do it.

"The current administration has undercut virtually everything Mister Bush established and used to fight terrorism, as insufficient as that was. Mister Obama has dismantled virtually all of it without replacing it with anything.

"Both Afghanistan and Iraq are producing well-trained people who are going to fight America or attack America's interests around the world. So it's a spreading phenomenon, not a constricting one.

"Mister Obama doesn't appear to have a clue about what the world is and how it works. He's surrounded himself with surrenderists left over from the Clinton administration.

"And I think he really is a man who doesn't have much interest in America. He appears to be more concerned with what the world thinks of him.

"My dad used to say, beware of men who like to show off in front of children. And I think the president's discussion with schoolchildren [on Tuesday] is a good example of a man to beware of."

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Not a fan of Schuer for alot of reasons, but to add to his main point.

Here is Obama's article on this, shortly after 9/11:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/...ntPage=all

Quote:We must also engage, however, in the more difficult task of understanding the sources of such madness. The essence of this tragedy, it seems to me, derives from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers: an inability to imagine, or connect with, the humanity and suffering of others. Such a failure of empathy, such numbness to the pain of a child or the desperation of a parent, is not innate; nor, history tells us, is it unique to a particular culture, religion, or ethnicity. It may find expression in a particular brand of violence, and may be channeled by particular demagogues or fanatics. Most often, though, it grows out of a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair.

-Barack Obama

Nevermind how wealthy and highly Educated the 9/11 Masterminds were. Not just 9/11 but other Jihad attacks in subsequent years around the world were by educated/wealthy Jihadist, in the UK the Hospital bomber was a Doctor I beleive.

anyway, illiteracy is a bad thing in the Middle East(something Despots prey on), the Obama's(Secular Humanist) do not beleive in the biblical concept of Evil, just ignorance from a lack of education(displayed above in Obama's article). To them that is the problem, if only we could reach out to them and educate them! They think, as a foundational beleif on this that "Man is basically Good"

Nevermind 9/11 mastermind KSM got his Engineering degree from NC A&T University for example(i.e. he was educated in our Western, Secular Humanist education system).

This quote from this book on Classical Education sums it up the best, IMO:

Quote:"The answer give to this dilemma goes back at least to Socrates. If man is basically good, then he must do evil things because of ignorance. Therefore the savior for ignorant man must be education. The antidote to ignorance is teaching. But the contrast of Socratic thinking to the Christian faith is striking. In Christian teaching, man is a sinner and rebel, and he must be saved by Jesus Christ. In the humanistic faith, man does evil because he is untaught, and if he were taught more effectively, or with better-funded programs, or more progressive curricula, then the great savior -- education -- would straighten out all his internal kinks"

(The Case for Classical Christian Education, p. 45).

the problem here is Worldview, what is it? Obama's is a Secular Humanistic worldview(Man is basically Good, just ignorant sometimes), the Jihadist worldview(Global Sharia Law, celebrates Death and destruction, etc.) and the Traditional Judeo-CHristian worldview(Man is born into Sin in a fallen/broken world, and must seek redemption, etc.).

This is why I said intelligent and educated are two different things. People on the left go to college and are not taught how to think but what to think. Actually that's not intelligent or educated. But I digress. They fall right in line and falsely believe they are smarter than anyone who actually is smart and able to think for themselves and knows differently. They believe such stupidity as the above Obama quote. The left continues to believe things that have simply been proven wrong for thousands of years. The definition of stupid.

If everyone were intelligent, there would be no left. Alas, about 20% of the public are truly dumb. Most of those would have benefited by not getting an "education".

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Father Barack believes 9/11 to be an aberration much like Pearl Harbor was in 1941 and he gives it no more significance to our present threat levels as he would another attack by Japan on Hawaii.

Father Barack is a foolish and fool hearty being that is going to get some of us killed really soon.

And if Father Barack can stand up on the Father Barack Channel, where you get Father Barack All News All Day, and Promise stupid sh't like his Debacle of a $1 Trillion Dollar just to start it up Health Care plan, will not cost ONE EXTRA RED CENT, then we all can pretty much say anything we want and it be the total truth.

Bill Clinton has been shamed down into the depths by Father Barack as far as being the most Fantastic Liar since Baron Von Munchhausen.

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(09-11-2009 10:12 AM)Paul M Wrote:  This is why I said intelligent and educated are two different things. People on the left go to college and are not taught how to think but what to think. Actually that's not intelligent or educated. But I digress. They fall right in line and falsely believe they are smarter than anyone who actually is smart and able to think for themselves and knows differently. They believe such stupidity as the above Obama quote. The left continues to believe things that have simply been proven wrong for thousands of years. The definition of stupid.

If everyone were intelligent, there would be no left. Alas, about 20% of the public are truly dumb. Most of those would have benefited by not getting an "education".

Oh lord.

Obama is foolish. An IVY leagued educated fool. Intellectual capacity HIGH....Wisdom LOW......opposite of Wisdom is foolishness. he is a fool.

(09-11-2009 12:37 PM)NIU05 Wrote:  Obama is foolish. An IVY leagued educated fool. Intellectual capacity HIGH....Wisdom LOW......opposite of Wisdom is foolishness. he is a fool.

well said

(09-11-2009 12:19 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  

(09-11-2009 10:12 AM)Paul M Wrote:  This is why I said intelligent and educated are two different things. People on the left go to college and are not taught how to think but what to think. Actually that's not intelligent or educated. But I digress. They fall right in line and falsely believe they are smarter than anyone who actually is smart and able to think for themselves and knows differently. They believe such stupidity as the above Obama quote. The left continues to believe things that have simply been proven wrong for thousands of years. The definition of stupid.

If everyone were intelligent, there would be no left. Alas, about 20% of the public are truly dumb. Most of those would have benefited by not getting an "education".

Oh lord.

Only the second paragraph was in complete seriousness. Seriously.