I strive to be as hardworking, humble and polite as Mr. Scheuer.

+1..... Thank you Mr. Michael Scheuer for your service to our country and expertise..!!

As an Afghan living in the US for 20 years, I have to say it's an honor to know that an American such as Michael Scheuer exists. It would be an honor to meet him someday and thank him.

Hard to believe this was 9 years ago and government stupidity and ignorance is still exactly the same in 2017

First, I totally agree with Michael Scheuer on his opinions in this interview. Second, I really appreciate the candid and inquisitive nature of the interviewer.

Absolutely amazing!!! This guys knows his stuff. 20 years in the CIA Bin Laden Unit. Can't get any more knowledge about our enemies than this guy has

Wow, two very intelligent people having a very interesting and serious discussion, without interrupting each other mid-sentence.

Not only the US, but the whole West needs more brave and wise people like Mr. Scheuer.

from 38:00 to 41:00 I confirm what Michael is saying. I am from Pakistan & I dont hate America or Americans but actually Admire the people. we are against the American policies that have only brought grief to the other nations & didnt help America in anyway either

I don't understand some of the comments ignorant people make!!!! He was a CIA agent for 20years and he since then became a professor and you bastards still criticize this man. You fools don't even know 5 per cent of this mans knowledge nor have the experience!!! How can you criticize someone about subjects that has much more information and knowledge than you?

I think Professor Scheuer brings an objective comprehensive point of view to the table. He's credentials are impeccable, and he has the courage to face adversity.

History lesson. Almost 11 years ago. Americans still have learned nothing.

Very informative and clever person. He is 110%Wright.

I love this interview. Great interviewer and great interviewee. This is how it should be done. Surprised this was at Berkeley.

Brave guy !!!!

Loads of very interesting information. Worth the time to watch it fully.

i wish americans to listen to that man !!!

2019, still completely relevant. He is a very intelligent and thoughtful individual

prietty much anybody who ever understood war has said similar things... history is defined by conflict, and this guy has studied history, he knows what a people have to do to win a war

That intro was awe-inspiring!

We need people like this running our country to repair the good name of America

Wars ends and somehow the defense budget never goes down.

Well spoken. You've convinced me with your outstanding examples that this man far exceeds your own worth.

DR Michael you are one the most honest and geniun person on this planet and You Love your country.

23:00 - 24:05 BRILLIANT observation

Mr. Scheuer is really a super nice guy who is absolutely brilliant and who speaks the 100% absolute truth.

This guy is brilliant

Very understanding line of work

I like this dude. He's common sense

2008? The production looks like it was in the 80s

As an aside, the intro music is really good.

This individual is brilliant, more research is needed(for me)....

Lets pray that there are others this true in the CIA! Seems impossible. This man is a hero.

One thing Mike didn’t bring up which is essential in feeding “terrorism” is the lobbyist that put their shareholders interest first. One example is the Military industrial complex that seeks to perpetuate these anti terrorism wars. In other words, get rid of lobbyists from government and you will see a lot less false flag terrorism operations.

The term "as far as I could throw them" comes to mind.

fascinating.........

Great interview! It would help for the interviewer to learn how to pronounce mujahideen.

you can sense honesty in this mans face.

So under the watchful and wise supervision of Prof.Michael Scheuer international terrorism flourished. Well done sir.

Is he the same guy who headed Alec Station which sat on intelligence on Al Qaida which resulted in 9/11 attack for more than a year before the attack even took place?

"Is Ares right? Will Warriors forever define the future" Gabrielle

Very good points: 37:27 39:15 49:00

Evidently an intelligent and forthright individual, and yes, I heard what he said about leaving the agency. What I would like to see though is more of change-agents whilst within, and not as soon as they’ve earned sufficient pension fund.

Does this guy do public speaking or a visiting professor tenure? I would like to attend his lecture after I read his book....

You got to love his answer on 9/11( we never found who did 911) but attacked seven countries🤔

Why is the theme music from 1981?

Yes

Jonas Savimbi was from Angola and not Namibia...Don't you love to correct the experts?

Hey akamal113... I am an American, and I love ALL people of ALL the HUMAN RACE !!! Your right about our government & policies...if only they would do what they're supposed to do , things might be alot better for everyone! They really don't care about regular citizens in America, much less anywhere else in the world...EVERYONE should open their eyes and see whats happening to our home...Its because of how we are ruled!!

The following is a list of countries invaded by the US forces (naval, military and ultimately air forces) since its inception in order of major incidents. This catalogue derives heavily form the work of US academic Dr Zoltan Grossman's article “From Wounded Knee to Libya : a century of U.S. military interventions” [1], Gideon Polya's book ‘Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950” (that includes a brief history of all countries since Neolithic times) [2] and William Blum's book “ Rogue State ” [3]. This list includes instances of violent deployment of US forces within America (e.g. against demonstrators, miners etc), and includes small-scale bombing and military intervention operations, military evacuations of Americans and specific instances of explicit threats of use of nuclear weapons. The list does not include the 1801-1805 US Marine Barbary War operations against Barbary pirates based in Morocco , Algeria , Tunisia and Libya , and also ignores massive US subversion of virtually all countries in the world. @t (1) American Indian nations (1776 onwards, American Indian Genocide; 1803, Louisiana Purchase; 1844, Indians banned from east of the Mississippi; 1861 onwards, California genocide; 1890, Lakota Indians massacre), (2) Mexico (1836-1846; 1913; 1914-1918; 1923), (3) Nicaragua (1856-1857; 1894; 1896; 1898; 1899; 1907; 1910; 1912-1933; 1981-1990), (4) American forces deployed against Americans (1861-1865, Civil War; 1892; 1894; 1898; 1899-1901; 1901; 1914; 1915; 1920-1921; 1932; 1943; 1967; 1968; 1970; 1973; 1992; 2001), (5), Argentina (1890), (6), Chile (1891; 1973), (7) Haiti (1891; 1914-1934; 1994; 2004-2005), (8) Hawaii (1893-), (9) China (1895-1895; 1898-1900; 1911-1941; 1922-1927; 1927-1934; 1948-1949; 1951-1953; 1958), (10) Korea (1894-1896; 1904-1905; 1951-1953), (11) Panama (1895; 1901-1914; 1908; 1912; 1918-1920; 1925; 1958; 1964; 1989-), (12) Philippines (1898-1910; 1948-1954; 1989; 2002-), (13) Cuba (1898-1902; 1906-1909; 1912; 1917-1933; 1961; 1962), (14) Puerto Rico (1898-; 1950; ); (15) Guam (1898-), (16) Samoa (1899-), (17) Honduras (1903; 1907; 1911; 1912; 1919; 1924-1925; 1983-1989), (18) Dominican Republic (1903-1904; 1914; 1916-1924; 1965-1966), (19) Germany (1917-1918; 1941-1945; 1948; 1961), (20) Russia (1918-1922), (21) Yugoslavia (1919; 1946; 1992-1994; 1999), (22) Guatemala (1920; 1954; 1966-1967), (23) Turkey (1922), (24) El Salvador (1932; 1981-1992), (25) Italy (1941-1945); (26) Morocco (1941-1945), (27) France (1941-1945), (28) Algeria (1941-1945), (29) Tunisia (1941-1945), (30) Libya (1941-1945; 1981; 1986; 1989; 2011), (31) Egypt (1941-1945; 1956; 1967; 1973; 2013), (32) India (1941-1945), (33) Burma (1941-1945), (34) Micronesia (1941-1945), (35) Papua New Guinea (1941-1945), (36) Vanuatu (1941-1945), (37) Austria (1941-1945), (38) Hungary (1941-1945), (39) Japan (1941-1945), (40) Iran (1946; 1953; 1980; 1984; 1987-1988; ), (41) Uruguay (1947), (42) Greece (1947-1949), (43) Vietnam (1954; 1960-1975), (44) Lebanon (1958; 1982-1984), (45) Iraq (1958; 1963; 1990-1991; 1990-2003; 1998; 2003-2011), (46) Laos (1962-), (47) Indonesia (1965), (48) Cambodia (1969-1975; 1975), (49) Oman (1970), (50) Laos (1971-1973), (51) Angola (1976-1992), (52) Grenada (1983-1984), (53) Bolivia (1986; ), (54) Virgin Islands (1989), (55) Liberia (1990; 1997; 2003), (56) Saudi Arabia (1990-1991), (57) Kuwait (1991), (58) Somalia (1992-1994; 2006), (59) Bosnia (1993-), (60) Zaire (Congo) (1996-1997), (61) Albania (1997), (62) Sudan (1998), (63) Afghanistan (1998; 2001-), (64) Yemen (2000; 2002-), (65) Macedonia (2001), (66) Colombia (2002-), (67) Pakistan (2005-), (68) Syria (2008; 2011-), (69) Uganda (2011), (70) Mali (2013), (71) Niger (2013). Clearly ... WE are a nation of murderous thieving self righteous hypocrites!

Must respect for the truth 👏

At least Dr.Sheuer told us the truth!

Epic intro music

great interview. interesting point made at minute 24 which runs counter to the "soft power" concept of joseph nye. the evidence seems to support scheuer over nye.

Why do the UC videos' soundtracks sound like really bad MIDI files?

20:52 Jonas Savimbi was in Angola, not Namibia.

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill ~ Sun Tzu

Pretty good talk. It irked me somewhat when he said the Cold War was relatively peaceful since I have a lot of South East Asian and Latin American friends. But I can understand why he'd think so. Can't wait to read his book on Bin Laden.

what about the stingers?

Scheuer really lays it out @ 39:00 min mark

Wow. His insights r awesome. State and church are not separate but they are interchangeable, they r the same side of the coin. Our basic laws are born from religious doctrine and then reformed by social reform.

@browneyes4 President Paul, Secretary of State Scheuer, Napolitano for Supreme court seat, Bruce Fein for DA.

It will be interesting to see what types of changes Leon Panetta brings to the CIA. When I was in college the father of a girl I was dating was friends with Panetta and I was fortunate to meet and get to know him. Leon Panetta is a fine man and when he was a Congressman out of Monterey California he served his district quite well. A very personable and reasonable guy. He showed his ethics when he left the Clinton cabinet right before the whole Monica Lewinski affair broke.

what's up with that opening song?!!!!!!

This guy went so crazy. It’s hard to believe he was ever in charge of anything

The Empire State building was hit by a much smaller plane travelling at a much lower speed, so it's not really a fair comparison, but it is the only one. Building No.7, like many buildings around the twin towers, was engulfed in flames and collapsed because the internal gas heating exploded, thus causing the building to implode.

America's got talent !!!!

I like Mr Scheuer point of view on Israel.

2020 ...

watch the look on his face when he says at 14:39 "allah delivered a victory"

He hardly touched on the Isreali issue when it comes to perpetuating terrorism in the world. Mentioned it maybe twice. This guy knows it is because of Isreal that there is so much Islamic extremism in the world

You can hear what he was saying about these subjects in 2005, regarding Afghanistan, Iraq, Muslim World, Neocons ilusions with Western Democracies and Nation Building. Almost everything he said 20 years ago is valid today. And he is dismissed by the Washington Establishment because he says what he thinks about America support for Israel.

@gupsphoo and what will that achieve?

10 times.

he certainly is

@bewaver I'd rather don't open that box .... might upset people! It would still be just my opinion and for the respect I have for him, I will not speak. It is reassuring to me that there are people acknowledging his courageous work.

Was a fan of Dr Scheuer until I heard him say the official report on 9-11 was correct.

Respectfully, what's your point? Wars have a winner and a loser (at least in an economic and political sense) - are you suggesting a win by the Axis would have been preferable?

I wouldnt trust him fully & I dont ....they NEVER leave the agency...once your in a part of the intel community, whether it be the NSA, CIA, FBI, you never TRULY leave...

I wonder how he feels about the vote on H.R. 5606?

It is very sad to read the comments from David Ben-Abraham who sounded like hateful of all others who did not agree with his opinion about Israel's wrong doings expressed by the speaker. His choice of words used - traitor, to be silenced- tells the readers that he has extremist ideas to eliminate fact finders and presenters on this platform. I am sorry to see that it is coming from a Jew who always seeks a path of truth.

STOP THE MUSIC..........

Here I am distancing from Mr Scheuer that, apparently Libya's sending young people to the other Arab country is Gaddafy;s fault, but I wonder if US President also liable when the young Jews go to Israel to fight against the Palestinians?

Yes, of course, I'm still a Patriot. I do not support any alignment with either Israel or Saudi Arabia. From what I gather, Michael Scheuer is also critical of our support of Saudi Arabia too.

Is Michael Scheuer still alive ?

yes, American should start thinking differently like this prof. But long way to go though.

@Empurity Guess he didn't so well for 20 years tho...

Scheuer doesn't support Buchanan and Paul, he merely refers to their point of view.

This interview was taped in 2008 - Morsi didn't even take power until last summer, and Khomeini died in 1989. C'mon, man.

Are we safer now in 2019?😞

After reading Scheuer’s book about Bin Laden, I knew immediately realized how ineffective in how the CIA had become in dealing with radical Islam with analysts as foolish as he.

oops...correction Norman Dodds.

Waging wars on nouns, like terror or drugs, is clearly a path away from enlightenment and humanism.

N. Vietnamese admired us like muslims did.

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I agree, too bad you mentioned 'Bush' in your comment as it was buried under more than a few thumbs down. Keep it up, and stay smart.

wow, the seat of Evil welcomes the resident fascist! The two cruds are worth each other.

He's basically saying the USA is too blame for a lot of the bad stuff that goes on in the middle east NOT Islam or Muslim.

The arrogance displayed in U.S. foreign policy is astonishing.Cherry Picking!hmm.😳😎

All the idols except the ones they walk around 7 times and throw stones at . And then the one everyone kisses to take their sins away, like a stone can do that. Mecca...does that ring a bell?