All Juan Cole Quotes
- 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 up… Advance
- Mr. Bush, I don't recognize the world you paint. I find your speech a form of sheer propaganda, having almost no relationship to reality. ...You… Bush
- 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 won’t… Afford
- 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 that… All
- 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… Been
- Partisan politics has no place in the classroom. Classroom
- I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that they… Administration
- My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news any time soon… Any
- An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a… All
- I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law and has been ignorant and… Administration
- I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy… Administration
- I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates. Academics
- It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship. Academic
- 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. Academic
- I lived in the Muslim world for 10 years. Inspirational
- Administering another country is always a very tricky proposition. Administering
- Did you know that they introduced the 15 percent flat tax on individual and corporate income in Iraq? Something that some politicians very much wanted… Corporate
- 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 or… Al
- I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian. Persian
- But September 11 marked a big change in the sense that the public was suddenly interested, and as a professor at a public university I… All
- For instance, I was a little surprised that the Shiites didn't rise up against Saddam and the Baath party across most of the country when… Across