"Michael Rubin" (born 1971) is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), and a senior lecturer at the Naval Postgraduate School. He previously worked as an official at the Pentagon, where he dealt with issues in the Middle East.

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If we look at the bigger picture, what Iraq has now ... (is) very peaceful debates over the constitution - very, very passionate debates, very emotional debates, but nonetheless largely peaceful.

There's this tendency in the West to believe that the insurgency is linked to Iraqi politics. As much as the White House would like to set a milestone, we're not going to realize what the turning point was until a year or two after the fact. We have to stop looking for a watershed moment.

Our decision to divest our non-Internet assets was not easy, as these businesses have achieved tremendous success and continue to have significant growth potential.

I have so many other things I have to do as a senior.

The Iraqis have consistently surprised us at every milestone.

It was not Fletcher Anderson Morrell who committed that crime.

I'm not surprised this goes on.

He angered people by telling it like it is.

All too often, ... the goal in the bureaucracy is to cover their own backside rather than to actually make sure the money does good.