Top 10 Juan Cole Quotes (2024 Update)

Juan Cole Quote: “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.”

1. “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 Quote: “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.”

2. “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 Quote: “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.”

3. “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 Quote: “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.”

4. “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 Quote: “I lived in the Muslim world for 10 years.”

5. “I lived in the Muslim world for 10 years.”

Juan Cole Quote: “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.”

6. “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 Quote: “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.”

7. “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 Quote: “I think it’s really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.”

8. “I think it’s really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.”

Juan Cole Quote: “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.”

9. “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 Quote: “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.”

10. “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 Quote: “Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.”

11. “Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.”

Juan Cole Quote: “Administering another country is always a very tricky proposition.”

12. “Administering another country is always a very tricky proposition.”

Juan Cole Quote: “It’s not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That’s not academic scholarship.”

13. “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 Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

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