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I lived in the Muslim world for 10 years.
Juan Cole / Academic
Muslim World
World
Years
Muslim
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Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.
Juan Cole / Academic
Classroom
Partisan Politics
Partisans
Partisan
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I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian.
Juan Cole / Academic
Persian
Urdu
Quite A Lot
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Administering another country is always a very tricky proposition.
Juan Cole / Academic
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Propositions
Tricky
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I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.
Juan Cole / Academic
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Thinking
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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 scholarship.
Juan Cole / Academic
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Party
Scholarship
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Promote
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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.
Juan Cole / Academic
Government
Academic
Balance
People
Political
Predetermined
Research
Government Political People
David
Impose
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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 in and that was not my specialty.
Juan Cole / Academic
Aunt
Conflict
East
Middle
Middle East
People
Public Interest
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Slight
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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 any time soon and an obvious exit strategy is not apparent to me.
Juan Cole / Academic
Exit
Good News
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Obvious
Past
Strategy
Time Future Good
Apparent
Future Time Good
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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.
Juan Cole / Academic
Decision
March
Apparently
Arrest
Widespread
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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 won’t be you; you can’t afford them.
Juan Cole / Academic
Democracy
Doe
Politician
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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 easy to rule Iraq as they thought.
Juan Cole / Academic
War
Administration
Easy
Iraq
Nationalism
Arab
Before
Rule
Underestimating
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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 around, without a strong security reason and so forth.
Juan Cole / Academic
Character
Law
Significant
Strong
Change Power Society
Alteration
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For instance, I was a little surprised that the Shiites didn't rise up against Saddam and the Baath party across most of the country when the Americans moved in March and April of 2003.
Juan Cole / Academic
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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 slate, that they could use Iraqis as guinea pigs.
Juan Cole / Academic
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Blank
Guinea
Guinea Pigs
Officials
Pigs
Slate
Use
Argued
Blank Slate
Bush
Bush Administration
Coalition
Iraqi
Iraqis
Recently
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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 to reality. ...You can't 'stay the course' because you don't have a course.
Juan Cole / Academic
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Reality
World
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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 been ignorant and incompetent. I said this very forthrightly to the senators.
Juan Cole / Academic
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Arrogant
Believe
Ignorant
Incompetent
International
International Law
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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 I felt a responsibility to respond to all of the inquiries about the Islamic world.
Juan Cole / Academic
Islamic
September
University
Big Change
Respond
Islamic World
Marked
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Suddenly
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Did you know that they introduced the 15 percent flat tax on individual and corporate income in Iraq? Something that some politicians very much wanted to push in the United States without success but in Iraq they do it.
Juan Cole / Academic
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Flat Tax
Income
Iraq
United States
Tax
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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 studies and policy recommendations, which are nevertheless taken very seriously.
Juan Cole / Academic
Nevertheless
Policy
Produce
Recommendations
Taken
Tanks
Thinking
Unfortunate
Wings
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Dominate
Seriously
Shoddy
Studies
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Wing
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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.
Juan Cole / Academic
Government
Iraq
Military
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