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By Juan Cole — Politics has become a game of the super rich, but the money they donate is significant only because of the way it is spent: on TV and radio advertising.
Posted on Feb 22, 2012
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By Juan Cole — As someone who has been running for president for many years, Romney should by now know something about foreign policy and he should know where he stands.
Posted on Oct 31, 2011
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AP / Seth Wenig
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By Juan Cole — It is often the little things that trip up empires and send them spiraling into geopolitical feebleness.
Posted on Sep 27, 2011
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AP / Charlie Neibergall
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By Juan Cole — A review of Michele Bachmann’s messianic and irrational foreign policy statements reveals a potential president looking for other conflicts, especially with Iran.
Posted on Aug 15, 2011
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AP / Ng Han Guan
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By Juan Cole — In 1957, a United States shocked by the Soviet launch of the Sputnik 1 satellite bounced into action to compete on the world stage. More than 50 years later, in May of 2011, the U.S. is facing a new challenge.
Posted on May 10, 2011
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apn / Namco Bandai
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By Juan Cole — President Barack Obama is actually siding with police who want to use GPS devices to track you without a warrant. It always disturbed me when on “Star Trek” the captain asked the ship’s computer where a crew member was and was told the person’s exact location.
Posted on Apr 19, 2011
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By Juan Cole — Washington’s tendency to handle the Bahraini monarchy with kid gloves and to defer to the Saudis is ill serving the stability of the Persian Gulf. Risking the radicalization of Bahrain’s Shiite community may be a very bad idea.
Posted on Mar 29, 2011
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AP / Ben Curtis
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By Juan Cole — The claim that George W. Bush’s war of aggression against Iraq somehow opened up the Middle East to reform is an affront to the brave crowds that have risked their lives to change the American-backed order in that part of the world.
Posted on Mar 15, 2011
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AP / Amr Nabil
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By Juan Cole — The hysteria in American media about Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is not only ignorant and demagogic, it is hypocritical.
Posted on Feb 15, 2011
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AP / Amr Nabil
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By Juan Cole — A largely unheralded hero of the Egyptian revolution is a mild-mannered academic who endured imprisonment and then exile for daring to criticize the Mubarak family’s increasingly dynastic ambitions.
Posted on Feb 1, 2011
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AP / Thibault Camus
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By Juan Cole — Every state and movement in the Middle East is reading into the events in Tunisia its own anxieties and aspirations.
Posted on Jan 18, 2011
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AP / Gerald Herbert
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By Juan Cole — Sen. Lindsey Graham has been wrong about almost everything in the Middle East for a decade and a half, so his harebrained proposal to build permanent bases in Afghanistan is hardly surprising.
Posted on Jan 4, 2011
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AP / Sebastian Scheiner
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By Juan Cole — As the decade draws to a close, it is clear that the bright hopes inspired by Obama’s 2009 Cairo speech have markedly faded, and the disappointments have outweighed achievements in the most important arena for contemporary American foreign policy.
Posted on Dec 21, 2010
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AP / Vahid Salemi
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By Juan Cole — Iran is winning and Israel is losing. That is the startling conclusion we reach if we consider how things have changed in the Middle East in the two years since most of the WikiLeaks State Department cables about Iran’s regional difficulties were written.
Posted on Dec 7, 2010
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AP / Rodrigo Abd
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By Juan Cole — The military’s major campaign in Kandahar has been largely ignored. The American public cannot have a debate on the war if it is not even mentioned in public.
Posted on Nov 16, 2010
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