Do you think that the terror outlook is as dangerous as Chertoff and the NIE suggest?
Scheuer: I think it is but not because we’re a weak country and because the enemy is particularly overpowering. It is because we’re still behaving as if these guys are on lunatic fringe of the Muslim world; that there is a high enough number of them that we can bring to justice in a matter of time; and, more especially, I think the issue of motivation is crucial. Until we have a discussion about that, we are not in a position to attack the enemy and kill them. I really think that what we fail to understand is that America is not the main enemy of these people. Their main enemy is what they call the “apostate government” Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kuwait, Jordan and the Israelis and their goal is not to defeat American or as Steve Emerson says to obliterate our society. Their goal is to get us out of the way so they can go after their main enemy. In defense of America, I think you not only have to figure out how to kill them when you can but also to look at policies that have been in place fo
