Juan Cole

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  • Is the Bush surge already failing?

    The president just gave a rosy assessment of his plan, but insurgents have adapted and Iraqis continue to be slaughtered.
    By Juan Cole March 8, 2007

  • The British retreat from Iraq brings peril for U.S. troops

    Vice President Cheney says the British are leaving southern Iraq because things are going so well. In the real world, Basra is a mess.
    By Juan Cole February 23, 2007

  • Jonah Goldberg's very bad bet

    He doesn't have to pay up, but we're all losers anyway.
    By Tim Grieve February 8, 2007

  • The danger of Bush's anti-Iran fatwa

    The president's decision to use force against Iranian "agents" inside Iraq could snare innocent pilgrims, and raises the risk of open warfare.
    By Juan Cole January 30, 2007

  • Did the U.S. just provoke Iran?

    Thursday's raid on the Iranian consulate is more evidence that President Bush is ready to escalate the conflict.
    By Juan Cole January 12, 2007

  • Saddam: The death of a dictator

    Through the bumbling of the U.S.-backed regime, justice becomes revenge, and a despot becomes a martyr.
    By Juan Cole December 30, 2006

  • Will Bush choose his new friends over his old?

    The president's Shiite allies in Iraq really don't like some of James Baker's Sunni-friendly suggestions.
    By Juan Cole December 8, 2006

  • Iraq's white-collar crime

    The recent kidnapping of Iraqi professionals, and ongoing murder of doctors and teachers, are devastating the country's recovery.
    By Juan Cole November 20, 2006

  • Partitioning Iraq

    Would dividing the country decrease ethnic infighting or lead to more fighting and inflame the Middle East?
    By Juan Cole October 30, 2006

  • Four more years?

    As civilian casualties climb, the U.S. makes plans to keep 140,000 troops in Iraq until 2010. Will the public in either country permit it?
    By Juan Cole October 12, 2006

  • Shiite vs. Shiite

    As the two main factions of Iraq's dominant religious group descend into armed conflict, the U.S. military has already been forced to pick sides.
    By Juan Cole September 8, 2006

  • Iraqi speaker derails Bush's dreams

    The sunny scenario of Sunni Arab political integration gets dimmer as speaker al-Mashhadani takes a hard line against Shiites -- and the U.S.
    By Juan Cole August 17, 2006

  • Israel's maximal option

    Part of Israel's war strategy may be to push the Shiites out of Lebanon's south. That would be a humanitarian disaster -- and it won't work.
    By Juan Cole July 19, 2006

  • Israel's failed-state strategy

    Olmert's smashing of Gaza reveals his greatest fear: A viable Palestinian government he'd have to negotiate with.
    By Juan Cole July 7, 2006

  • The Zarqawi effect

    Bush's Mideast policies have turned a brutal terrorist into an icon of resistance -- and made violent fundamentalism more popular.
    By Juan Cole June 27, 2006

  • The Egyptian sphinx lashes out at Washington

    Mubarak's criticism reflects his anger at Bush's policies -- and uneasiness about his growing domestic opposition.
    By Juan Cole May 25, 2006

  • Saving Iraq: Mission impossible

    Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite hard-liner distrusted by his foes, will almost certainly be unable to stop Iraq's slide to chaos.
    By Juan Cole May 11, 2006

  • Breaking the silence

    The overwrought response to John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt's brave paper only confirms its thesis.
    By Juan Cole April 18, 2006

  • Civil war? What civil war?

    Desperate to convince voters we're winning, Bush is denying that Iraq is having a civil war. But the facts contradict him.
    By Juan Cole March 23, 2006

  • Iraq's worst week -- and Bush's

    As Americans finally begin to grasp the magnitude of the Iraq catastrophe, Bush's popularity hits a new low.
    By Juan Cole March 1, 2006

  • All cartoon politics are local

    Muslim outrage reflects specific national conflicts -- most of them exacerbated by Bush's policies.
    By Juan Cole February 9, 2006

  • How do you like your democracy now, Mr. Bush?

    Hamas' stunning victory underlines the contradictions and hypocrisies in Bush's Mideast policies.
    By Juan Cole January 27, 2006

  • The jailer

    Ariel Sharon is lauded for breaking with his hard-line past. But the truth is that he simply embraced a smarter way of locking up the Palestinians.
    By Juan Cole January 12, 2006

  • Mission to be decided

    Now that so many Americans -- even Democrats! -- seem to agree that we should withdraw from Iraq soon, it's time to figure out how.
    By Joe Conason December 9, 2005

  • Did Bush plan to bomb Al-Jazeera?

    The American press is predictably ignoring the story. Yet it is only too plausible that Bush wanted to wipe out what he saw as a nest of terrorists.
    By Juan Cole November 30, 2005
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