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The May issue of Men's Journal has a quick Q&A with Robert Baer, "CIA vet, author and inspiration for Syriana." Baer also narrated the documentary, The Cult of the Suicide Bomber.

MJ: How can we win the war on terror?

RB: We've got to get our minds around terrorism as political problem. We kill Bin Laden today - so what? He'll just become a martyr. We're going on seven years in Afghanistan, and the Taliban are still shutting down schools in Kandahar. It's a joke. And Iraq is a corpse that Patraeus keeps putting lipstick on to make it look like it's still alive. All the Iraqis are doing is cooperating to get American arms. Patraeus says it's thanks to Iran that they're keeping the peace. That's an extraordinary statement: Our main Middle Eastern enemy is keeping the peace for us? We're fucked. What to do? Come home. Just come home. Impose visas, make sure you know who's coming into your country, lock the cockpit doors, and be nice to Muslims here. The worst thing to do is continually shed Muslim blood.