As head of the CIA’s Bin Laden Unit, Michael Scheuer, anonymously wrote ‘Through our Enemies Eyes,’ a damning indightment of the Bush administration’s ‘War on Terror’ and a plea for sanity in confronting the global menace of jihadi insurgency. There was widespread controversy at the time as to who ‘Anonymous’, obviously someone senior in the US intelligence establishment, really was. In November 2004 he resigned from the CIA in disgust, after two decades of experience in national security issues relating to Afghanistan and South Asia. Now writing under his own name, in his recent book “Imperial Hubris,” Scheuer locates the reason for the ongoing conflict in US oil dependency.

Scheuer writes:

“Persian Gulf Oil and the lack of serious US alternative energy development are at the core of the bin Laden issue. For cheap, easily accessible oil, Washington and the West have supported the Muslim tyrannies bin Laden and other Islamists seek to destroy. There can be no other reason for backing Saudi Arabia, a regime that, since its founding, his deliberately fostered an Islamic ideology, whose goals –unlike din Laden’s– can be met only be annihilating all non-Muslims.

U.S. leaders refuse to accept the obvious: We are fighting a worldwide Islamic insurgency – not criminality or terrorism – and our policy and procedures have failed to make more than a modest dent in enemy forces.

Bin Laden has been precise in telling America the reasons he is waging war on us. None of the reasons have everything to do with our freedom, liberty, and democracy, but everything to do with U.S. policies and actions in the Muslim world”