My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news any time soon and an obvious exit strategy ….

An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a st….

Partisan politics has no place in the classroom..

Mr. Bush, I don't recognize the world you paint. I find your speech a form of sheer propaganda, having almost no relationship to reality. ...You can'….

I lived in the Muslim world for 10 years..

I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates..

I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies an….

Did you know that they introduced the 15 percent flat tax on individual and corporate income in Iraq? Something that some politicians very much wante….

If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it won’t be….

I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate,….

I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law and has been ignoran….

To the extent that the (ISIS's) advance is a series of urban revolts against the government of PM Nouri al-Maliki, the US would end up bombing ordina….

I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy ….

It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship..

Administering another country is always a very tricky proposition..

Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not….

I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic ….