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 ordina…

- Juan Cole

Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.

- Juan Cole

I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law and has been ignoran…

- Juan Cole

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 st…

- Juan Cole

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'…

- Juan Cole

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…

- 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 …

- Juan Cole

I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate,…

- Juan Cole

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…

- Juan Cole