I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and policy recommendations, which are nevertheless taken very seriously. — Juan Cole Copy Share Image
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… — Juan Cole Copy Share Image
Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and… — Juan Cole Copy Share Image
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. — Juan Cole Copy Share Image
Did you know that they introduced the 15 percent flat tax on individual and corporate income in Iraq? Something that some politicians very much… — Juan Cole Copy Share Image
I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as… — Juan Cole Copy Share Image
If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it… — Juan Cole Copy Share Image
To the extent that the (ISIS's) advance is a series of urban revolts against the government of PM Nouri al-Maliki, the US would end… — Juan Cole Copy Share Image
I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and… — Juan Cole Copy Share Image
I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates. — Juan Cole Copy Share Image
But September 11 marked a big change in the sense that the public was suddenly interested, and as a professor at a public university… — Juan Cole Copy Share Image
My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news any time… — Juan Cole Copy Share Image
It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship. — Juan Cole Copy Share Image
