Posted on 10/11/2013 11:20:33 AM PDT by Ready4Freddy
WASHINGTON - Taking on one of the United States’ most prominent Israel critics Wednesday, Rep. Peter King, a New York Republican who is mulling a presidential run, defended the special relationship with Israel as essential for U.S. security.
The sparring came when, at a Homeland Security Committee hearing on the threat posed by Somali al-Qaida affiliate Al Shabaab, former CIA al-Qaida analyst Michael Scheuer said that al-Qaida would leave the U.S. alone if they were to abandon their alliance with Israel.
“If it was up to me I’d dump the Israelis tomorrow,” Scheuer said. “All I worry about is the continuing preaching of American politicians to the American people that our relationship with the Israelis doesn’t cause us to have dead Americans and extraordinary expenses in fighting the Muslim world.”
Interrupting Scheuer, King said that he believed the opposite, that al-Qaida’s grievances with the West are hundreds of years old and they would not stop their jihad against the United States even if it abandoned Israel.
“I think there’d be more of a cost if we stopped what we’re doing,” King said.
Scheuer told King that he was not the person to debate this, since as a member of the Republican party he was “presiding over a bankruptcy,” referencing the current fiscal crisis.
“What can be worse? And what has been the goal of al-Qaida since it was formed? To bankrupt the United States. Who’s winning today, sir? We’re done like dinner,” Scheuer said, who claimed that the U.S. military was “defeated” in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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I know who King is, I don’t know the other dude.
Scheuer is the important one in the article.
Ex-CIA, Israel-hater, etc
Michael Scheuer is actually pretty good. He’s one of those who have been sounding the alarm on the muslim brotherhood infection in our government long before many others were.
He was also about the first to warn that intervention in Libya would only help terrorists.
Peter King is the same old scumbag he’s always been.
I can’t argue with anything you just said.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Scheuer’s CIA career started in the early-mid 80’s, and he was chief of the OBL Desk under Clinton.
IINM, the 9/11 Commission contained a comment about the poor quality of resources and personnel at the CIA’s office in charge of watching bin Laden in the years before the attacks took place. And Scheuer was running the office then.
Michael Scheuer said that al-Qaida would leave the U.S. alone if they were to abandon their alliance with Israel... "All I worry about is the continuing preaching of American politicians to the American people that our relationship with the Israelis doesn't cause us to have dead Americans and extraordinary expenses in fighting the Muslim world." ... claimed that the U.S. military was "defeated" in Iraq and Afghanistan.What's his FR nick?
That statement tends to irk some people ping!
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