"I also argued before the war that the……" — Juan Cole
"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 to rule Iraq as they thought."
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21 Quotes by Juan Cole
Juan Cole has 21 quotes on this site.
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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,…
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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…
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If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no…
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An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the…
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I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law…
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I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.
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It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic…
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