Chris Matthews: spokesman for the hate-America crowd

Last night, Matthews interviewed a former CIA agent.

• MATTHEWS: After 22 years with the CIA, Michael Scheuer left the agency this past Friday. It is fair to say few people there knew more about Osama bin Laden than did he and does. Yet Scheuer says his warnings about the threat that bin Laden posed to this country fell on deaf ears. His complaints were made public in “Imperial Hubris,” a book critical of the CIA and the Bush administration.

  Michael, you‘re a gutsy guy. When did you sense that bin Laden was going to be a danger to us?

  MICHAEL SCHEUER, FORMER CHIEF OF CIA BIN LADEN UNIT: I think we found out shortly after we began chasing him in January of 1996 that he was much more than any kind of terrorist we had ever seen before.

  MATTHEWS: What is his motive? Why does he want to kill us?

  SCHEUER: His motive—his motive is to change our policies, sir. Notwithstanding what the president or Mr. Kerry said during the campaign, he really doesn‘t give a darn about our democracy or our society. He is after a change in policies which he views as lethal to Muslims.

  MATTHEWS: Does he think, for example—let me try this—and I don‘t want to sound like an apologist. But suppose we had truly an even-handed policy in the Middle East. Suppose there was a Palestinian entity of some kind and it had reasonable borders and it was contiguous enough to be a working state, and we didn‘t back dictators like the Saudi royal family, people like that who are simply selling the oil to keep their fingers filled with rings and girlfriends in London, all right?

  Suppose we were a good country and an even-handed country, all right?

  Would that make him any less hostile to us?
  

This is current Democrat policy and mainstream thought among the American left. "It's our fault", or " what did we do to anger the muslim radicals" or "we should try to understand them more".

Sorry, but I have little patience and zero time to spend trying to understand people who strap bombs to their children and saw the heads off of innocent people to make political statements. NONE.