Quotes Juan Cole

Administering another country is always a very tricky propos...

An occupying power has no right to make significant alterati...

But September 11 marked a big change in the sense that the p...

Did you know that they introduced the 15 percent flat tax on...

For instance, I was a little surprised that the Shiites didn...

I also argued before the war that the administration was und...

I also warned that it was entirely possible that Shiite Iraq...

I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition off...

I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been ...

I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz th...

I don't think there are many allies in NATO who are going to...

I just don't understand under what circumstances other natio...

I lived in the Muslim world for 10 years....

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

I think a lot of the mistakes that have been made have grown...

I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sid...

I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right ...

It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and pro...

My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapola...

Partisan politics has no place in the classroom....

Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at tha...

Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. ...

Throughout my career, I've been extremely interested in cont...

Unlike a lot of American specialists in the Middle East, who...

Until a new Iraqi military force can be established that can...