Even if you are a liberal in the Muslim world, when you see Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, and you see all the other reports of abuses by American forces…

- Yaroslav Trofimov

Long before 9/11 and the war in Iraq, a lot of people hated the United States and the West. But what the Iraqi war seems to have done, at least in...…

- Yaroslav Trofimov

Even if you look at Iran, those campaigners for human rights there, they don't want to have anything to do with America, because they are afraid that…

- Yaroslav Trofimov

And if you look at the experience of Turkey, for example, where the modern Islamists are in power and are doing fine - this is very good. Because dem…

- Yaroslav Trofimov

The American official was trying to talk about aid and development projects and finally a local tribal chief got up and said, "Even if you turn our c…

- Yaroslav Trofimov

In the occupation in Afghanistan, there are tragedies as well. It's not as bad as in Iraq because there are fewer American troops. But, as I describe…

- Yaroslav Trofimov

I think the behavior of the troops has been a huge factor in the rise of the insurgency and in the rise of the anti-American feelings there[in Iraq].

- Yaroslav Trofimov

But in Afghanistan, the general rule was that since you were fighting the Taliban, which was not a lawful government force, the Geneva Conventions di…

- Yaroslav Trofimov

Now as to the behavior of the soldiers: occupations always corrupt the occupiers.

- Yaroslav Trofimov