"To the extent that the (ISIS's) advance is……" — Juan Cole
"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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Juan Cole
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21 Quotes by Juan Cole
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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 also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not…
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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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