Juan Cole Quotes

"This vote is sort of a national vote of confidence for that leadership."
-Juan Cole

"A U.S. withdrawal would not cause the Sunnis suddenly to want to give up their major demands; indeed, they might well be emboldened to hit the Shiites harder."
-Juan Cole

"This thing is an enormous fiasco, ... really undermines its legitimacy, and this result guarantees the guerrilla war will go on."
-Juan Cole

"... will play the role of rejection in the new Iraq. They are going to demand that all the controversial points in the constitution be addressed right away."
-Juan Cole

"They began to see some advantages to federalism - one of them being that the parties would control the resources."
-Juan Cole

"The question is how you reduce the number of bases [the terrorists have] and the size of the sea in which they swim. What something like the Iraq war does is increase the number of bases you have to deal with and the sea they have to swim in."
-Juan Cole

"They are like lobbyists. They're spreading the money around, so whoever wins owes them."
-Juan Cole

"My gut tells me the letter is a forgery."
-Juan Cole