I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law and has been ignorant and
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
I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn’t understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that they
For instance, I was a little surprised that the Shiites didn’t rise up against Saddam and the Baath party across most of the country when
I think it’s really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.
It’s not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That’s not academic scholarship.
I don’t accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.
Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or
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
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
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