Marc Lynch also writes a blog for Foreign Policy.

The newspaper quoted Marc Lynch, a professor of Middle East Studies at George Washington University: "They did not cause these events, but it's almost impossible to imagine all this happening without Al Jazeera".

"I think this is a gambit on the part of those regimes to conclusively put an end to democracy promotion in the Middle East," said Marc Lynch, a scholar of Arab politics at Williams College.

Marc Lynch writes in Foreign Affairs that Arab public opinion is a more complex phenomenon than conventional notions of a cynical elite and a passionate, nationalist "Arab Street" suggest.

Marc Lynch, who is in favour of a referral, noted a couple of other routes to the ICC were possible, and that overcoming Chinese and Russian opposition was not impossible.

Shortly after, Marc Lynch posted his perspective of the "smear campaign" against Hussain and cited Gartenstein-Ross' article:

Marc Lynch of Foreign Policy called Al Quds Al Arabi "the most populist/ 'rejection camp' of the major Arab papers."

CNAS scholars include John Nagl, David Kilcullen, Andrew Exum, Thomas E. Ricks, Robert D. Kaplan, and Marc Lynch.

"They are purely political animals," said Marc Lynch, a Middle East expert at George Washington University.

Marc Lynch, a fellow contributor to Foreign Policy magazine, provides this riposte to Cook.