Q & A

The "Mighty" Chrenkoff bags an interview with Michael Ledeen. Chrenkoff describes Michael Ledeen as " Currently the holder the Freedom Chair at the American Enterprise Institute, Michael is one of the leading experts on intelligence, terrorism and international politics. Formerly the Italian correspondent for the "New Republic", advisor and consultant in the Reagan Administration, lecturer and historian, he is also a prolific author, most recently of the bestselling 'The War Against the Terror Masters; How it Happened. Where We Are Now. How We Will Win'."

Ledeen is asked 11 questions. Here are some excerpts of Ledeen's answers:

• We should be funding more (mostly private) radio and television broadcasting to Syria, Saudi Arabia and Iran. The people in those countries know that they are being lied to by their governments, but they don't know the truth, especially about their own country.
• We have to tell the royal family that if they do not do that ("shut down the transmission belt of hate") --yesterday--we will make a lot of trouble for them.
• It's quite obvious that the Iraqi Shi'ites don't want an Iranian style Islamic Republic, and if anything, the Shi'ite victory in the Iraqi elections threatens the Iranian regime, not the other way around.
• The regime in Iran is very frightened right now.
• Well, maybe, the mullahs (In Iran) don't trust their own armed forces (and they are right not to trust them).
• On 9/11 the streets of the major Iranian cities were full of people carrying lighted candles, and that lovely ritual has been repeated on each anniversary. Almost every visitor to Iran finds great affection for the United States; even Tom Friedman wrote about it recently, calling Iran a "red state."
• Tyrannies are unstable, and they collapse quite quickly once the people realize how weak the tyrants are.
• ............. as Churchill said, never, never, ever give in to tyranny.

To see the complete interview go here.