Mearsheimer: ‘No Misgivings’

This weekend I had my first houseguest, a critic of U.S. policy in the Middle East, and he passed on a rumor that he had picked up from an academic, that John Mearsheimer had said privately, or in so many words, that if he had to do it over again, knowing now about all the flak he would get, and the smearing
and the marginalization, he wouldn’t have attacked the Israel lobby. I
found this unlikely, an  I asked Mearsheimer about it. He said:
"Neither Steve nor I have ever expressed misgivings about doing the
work on the lobby, either publicly or privately to each other. Indeed,
we almost always say when asked, that we have no regrets and that we
would do it all over again knowing what we now know. We believe, like
you, that the truth will win out over the long term."