INSKEEP: Just to summarize this, I mean, you say that al-Qaeda is unhappy with the United States and gets support in the Islamic world not because of what the United States stands for but because of what the United States does.
INSKEEP: Well one of the things the United States did was invade Iraq on the chance that it might have weapons of mass destruction and that they might end up in the hands of terrorists and that’s ended up having tremendous cost to the United States in a lot of peoples’ viewpoints.
INSKEEP: We've been talking to the author of "Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror." He is a CIA analyst, and he's asked us to refer to him only as Mike.