I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.
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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
Americans have been given the message to respond this way by the American political elite, mass media and by select special interests.
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I don't think there are many allies in NATO who are going to be eager to send lots of troops to Iraq after seeing what happened to American troops.
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I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian.
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'The size of the sea' But others say the debate is important because it can determine whether actions are taken that help stem the violence - or make matters worse. 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.
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This vote is sort of a national vote of confidence for that leadership.
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