The State Department budget gets cut so much that there is not enough money to provide for protection as well as other operations.

Since the embassy in Nairobi is right in the middle of downtown, you can’t very well protect against a bomb, a car bomb, that just drives up the main road downtown and blows up. There...

I’m convinced that this was well-planned,

Obviously it was a very meticulously planned operation over a long period of time. A lot of organization, sophistication, a lot of technical sophistication, complete disregard of Kenyan and Tanzanian life. Therefore it would hardly...

They will certainly fight the Indians if provoked. There’s no question about that,

They’re already diverting attention and perhaps some resources from the fight against al Qaeda and the Taliban on Pakistan’s western border. So the U.S. has a very big interest in this.

The groups that are doing this without the knowledge and against the will of the Pakistani government — but they don’t have the control.