Mike Hayden knows a thing or two about terrorists. From 2006 to 2009, he ran the Central Intelligence Agency.

Last year, the Marine Corps University asked Gen. Hayden to keynote a conference on the state of al Qaeda. “Al Qaeda main is like IBM Solutions,” he said. “They’re now a consulting service. What they give to the franchises are the name, legitimacy, some financing, some expert advice.” Their slogan, he suggested, should now be: “We don’t do the terror, we make terror better.”