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Juan Cole has 21 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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To the extent that the (ISIS's) advance is a series of urban revolts against the government of PM Nouri al-Maliki, the US…
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Mr. Bush, I don't recognize the world you paint. I find your speech a form of sheer propaganda, having almost no relationship…
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If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy…
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Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested…
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I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy…
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Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.
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I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank…
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My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news…
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An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all…
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I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law and has…
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I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to…
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I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.
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Why do Sunnis kill Shiites? How do they tell the difference? They all look the same to me.
— Trent Lott
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Why do they kill people of other religions because of religion? Why do they hate the Israelis and despise their right to…
— Trent Lott
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In Iraq #1 we stayed within U.N. mandates, limited our response, went home after Kuwait was freed - and were censured for…
— Victor Davis Hanson
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I think the Shiites want a theocracy.
— Adnan Pachachi
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The Houthi have local religious grievances, being Shiites in a majority Sunni land. But they are also agents of Shiite Iran, which…
— Charles Krauthammer
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If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunni Arab objections, there will be…
— Wayne White
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The UN should arrange, as US forces leave, for an international group of peacekeepers and negotiators from the Arab countries to bring…
— Howard Zinn
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What is postwar Iraq going to look like, with the Kurds and the Sunnis and the Shiites? That's a huge question, to…
— Norman Schwarzkopf
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Iraqi national identity under Saddam Hussein never truly incorporated Shiites or Kurds. Sunnis, who identified most closely with the Iraqi nation, remain…
— Noah Feldman
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In Ghazalia, Mr. Hussein showed his contempt for the majority Shiites in ways large and small. He refused to allow them even…
— Alex Berenson
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The Americans were never interested in what was best for the Shiites.
— Muqtada al Sadr
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Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.
— Dana Hussein
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