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

Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.

- 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

I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies an…

- Juan Cole

I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.

- Juan Cole

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

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 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

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