Three quotes from former CIA officer, now an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's Center for Peace and Security Studies.
Jim Carroll

"One of the greatest dangers for Americans in deciding how to confront the Islamist threat lies in continuing to believe - at the urging of senior U.S. leaders - that Muslims hate and attack us for what we are and think, rather than for what we do. The Islamic world is not so offended by our democratic system of politics, guarantees of personal rights and civil liberties, and separation of church and state that it is willing to wage war against overwhelming odds in order to stop Americans from voting, speaking freely, and praying, or not, as they wish."
Michael Scheuer, Imperial Hubris

"We assume, moreover, that bin Laden and the Islamists hate us for our liberty, freedoms, and democracy - not because they and many millions of Muslims believe U.S. foreign policy is an attack on Islam or because the U.S. miitary now has a ten-year record of smashing people and things in the Islamic world."
Michael Scheuer, Imperial Hubris

"The U.S. invasion of Iraq is Osama bin Laden's gift from America, one he has long and ardently| desired, but never realistically expected."
Michael Scheuer, Imperial Hubris,