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Malcolm Nance Quotes

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I started my career in Naval Intelligence when I entered as a Russian language interpreter sent to DLI, the Defense Language Institute.

Intelligence Language Career Started

For years before my Navy enlistment, I had studied the Soviet Union and the KGB's history of political intrigue in preparation for a career in intelligence.

History Intelligence Preparation Navy

ISIL is not 'radical Islam.' Hamas, Hezbollah, Fatah, the Muslim Brotherhood - these are radical Islamic groups. They resort to armed struggle and terrorism to move toward their goals. But they are also deeply political organizations that have internal rules, standards, and codes of conduct.

Goals Struggle Brotherhood Political

Hamas and Hezbollah operate within geopolitical norms. They can be negotiated and reasoned with. ISIL is a different animal altogether - a religious cult an order of magnitude more extreme than even the most extreme Islamic groups of the past.

Past Animal More Within Order Norms

Referring to ISIL as a destructive religious cult rather than a legitimate theo-political 'radical Islamic' group is not just more accurate, it also exposes ISIL's corrupt religious narrative.

Group More Corrupt Narrative Radical

Whenever counterterrorism professionals see punditry and media make grand pronunciations on terrorism that defy all demonstrable evidence, an unrepeatable oath is usually muttered.

Media Terrorism Evidence See Oath

The Republicans want an autocracy where the rights of minorities and others are not protected.

Want Others Rights Where Minorities

Vladimir Putin understood, from the Communist era when he was a KGB officer, that the Russian propaganda system of targeting Western media - that in the digital world, you could easily pull the Western media around by a nose ring.

World Media You Ring Digital System

Vladimir Putin is creating an axis of authoritarian regimes that he will lead.

Creating Will Authoritarian Lead He

Russia's a small country. It's really poor. It has nothing other than oil and weapons sales.

Small Country Nothing Poor Oil Than

I've been involved in air strikes against Syria and operations against Syria numerous times in my career.

Career Air Operations Against Been

I was a part of the planning and attack package intelligence team for the strike against Syria in 1983 - in which we lost a pilot and had another one captured until Jesse Jackson got him out - and numerous other operations against Syria both before the Iraq war and during the insurgency.

Intelligence War Team Planning Lost

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