Bruce Hoffman Quotes (24 Quotes)

That's the attraction of these targets. Everybody has to use them to get to work on a daily basis, even in Israel,

It could be coincidence. It's an extraordinarily short turnaround it's impossible to say at this point.

Because we still lack a clear picture of the insurgency, we can't assess the full import of this development.

We may be setting up new TV and radio stations, and that's fine, but ... they're getting their information from the Internet.

It's enormously tempting to speculate ... without knowing where he is, it's impossible to say.

We still have difficulty imagining women as killers rather than as mothers,

All these defense firms have already, since the cold war, been diversifying. The public expectations for security are so high now that even avenues that may not have been pursued before have to be investigated.

There's absolutely no doubt that executing him would turn him into a martyr.

So, in other words, all the lessons that they're learning on how to attack the United States are being communicated and shared not only throughout Iraq but with insurgents and terrorists throughout the world.

Their assistance has been genuine, if motivated in large measure by self-preservation. You have to give Kadafi credit for recognizing the existential threat posed to his rule and revolution by Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda.

The terrorists appear, and we've let them fill this vacuum that's the Internet without any push back. This has not been like a political campaign where immediately there's some response and an effort to take their message and spin it in a different direction.

Could anyone imagine it would be more perilous than it is today The prospect of civil war is looming much larger than at any time in the past.

terrorists can still accomplish their basic aims of fear and intimidation just as well by using entirely conventional weapons -- the gun and the bomb.

It could be that because we were vigilant, because we were on guard, because of the warnings we issued, it deterred the terrorists,

It doesn't really give us any more indication of whether this was a plot that was derailed or preempted, or a plot that was more in the realm of an idle daydream.

I think this is one of the major challenges that we face in the U.S.. The major incidents in the U.S. have not conformed to our stereotype of an established terror organization attacking a major iconic landmark.

We're seeing the automated battlefield, but we're not the ones who are in technological control. The enemy is. They're killing us with remote-detonated IEDs. It's like they're fighting a war by technological proxy. But that's what we're supposed to be doing.

With the exception of weapons of mass destruction, there is no other type of attack that is more effective than suicide terrorism. The perception is that it's impossible to guard against.

It is exactly the strategy of the terrorists to create a vacuum of disorder and lawlessness, and the way to do that is to attempt to eliminate precisely the dedicated civil servants like the prime minister, the president and the senior members of the interim government.

Almost like our minutemen during the American Revolution, they're people with a weapon who were available at a moment's notice to be summoned to battle.

It's like Sun Tzu, the Chinese strategist, said years ago. Only if you know your enemy can you win the battle.

He knows the terrain, he knows the problems and he understands the solutions. He's bringing the right vision, but this is the vision that should've been brought three years ago.

These kidnappings represent a significant gap in the country's security and undermine public confidence in the ability of both Iraqi government and coalition forces to maintain order and protect Iraqi citizens from violence - whether insurgent or criminal.

And that becomes the justification or the rationale for violence. Often attached to that or married to that is the catharsis of violence, in other words, the satisfaction they feel of the David against a Goliath, the weak striking out against the powerful.