Juan Cole
Juan Cole
John Ricardo I. "Juan" Coleis an American academic and commentator on the modern Middle East and South Asia. He is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Since 2002, he has written a weblog, Informed Commentwhich is also syndicated on Truthdig.com...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
CountryUnited States of America
party class academic
It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.
military government isis
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.
democracy doe politician
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.
allies american-educator eager happened iraq lots nato seeing send troops
I don't think there are many allies in NATO who are going to be eager to send lots of troops to Iraq after seeing what happened to American troops.