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Exit Quote by Juan Cole

“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 and an obvious exit strategy is not apparent to me.” quote by Juan Cole — Download Open 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 soon and an obvious exit strategy is not apparent to me.”

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Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.

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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 how widespread it is.

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I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian.

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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.

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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 be as…

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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 them--and it…

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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 would end up bombing ordinary city folk. For the US to be bombing Sunni towns all these years later on behalf of Mr. al-Maliki would be to invite terrorism against the US.

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I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.

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But September 11 marked a big change in the sense that the public was suddenly interested, and as a professor at a public university…

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“Every second and every minute of the clock, we are getting closer and closer to our various destinations.”

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I would never kill myself intentionally. I couldn't do that to my family, my friends ... But to have fate step in and give me a shove, that's a different matter. Then I have the exit, without the guilt. I am ashamed of myself for thinking like this. But more than anything, I am frightened that it makes me feel…

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