Interview. Robert Baer.

Robert Baer is the author of See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism, the memoir Syriana is based on (George Clooney plays Baer, more or less), Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude and most recently, a novel, Blow the House Down.

His latest project is the film, The Cult of the Suicide Bomber, which Hannah Eaves describes, introducing her interview with Baer, as "an eye-opening portrait of the overwhelming adoration suicide bombers inspire in their communities and families."

Baer also pinpoints what he feels is the crux of the problem in the Middle East, the problem "everybody's afraid to talk about," and explains why the war in Iraq is "total folly" and how the ongoing presence of the US in the country will only further exacerbate the situation - and why another terrorist attack on the US is only "a matter of time."

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