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• To the extent that the (ISIS's) advance is a series of urban revolts against the government of PM Nouri al-Maliki, the US…
• Mr. Bush, I don't recognize the world you paint. I find your speech a form of sheer propaganda, having almost no relationship…
• If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy…
• Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested…
• I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy…
• Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.
• I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank…
• My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news…
• An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all…
• I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law and has…
• I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to…
• I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.

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