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Juan Cole, Egghead professor

January 8, 2009, 9:56AM

Juan Cole is an excellent writer. Calm, organized, confident, thorough, fully knowledgeable. He blasts each and every lie and propaganda volley as it comes down the media pike. His voice is acid, yet fully contained and fact-based. He is a hero of the blogosphere.

His latest article at salon.com is a short, perfect brief of the utter failure of the Bush administration's and neoconservatives' foreign policy...there is no other word for their folly but FANTASIES.

"Wet dreams" works well for me, too.

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Definitely a must read. Juan is brilliant and needs to be more widely quoted.

Posted by Candide
January 8, 2009 10:31 AM | Reply | Permalink

I like his piece on his blog "Informed Comment" posted the 4 January, 2009, Gaza 2008 Wars: Micro-Wars and Macro-Wars. An excellent primer on the current situation. He mentions the demographic part of this equation.

Posted by 1849
January 8, 2009 1:08 PM | Reply | Permalink

Me 2

I quipped that I'd plowed through Charles Smith's college text on the subject for nothing

That was a model answer to an exam question

Posted by JohnMcCSF in reply to a comment from 1849
January 8, 2009 7:27 PM | Reply | Permalink

Great closing lines of Cole's article, for those non inclined to read it:

The ancient Greek poet Bion said that boys cast stones at frogs in sport, but the frogs die in earnest. The neoconservatives were the boys, and the people of Iraq, Israel, Palestine and Lebanon have been their frogs. The biggest danger facing the United States is that there will be no true "Clean Break" -- that the neoconservatives will somehow find a way to survive the Bush administration, and continue to influence American foreign policy.

Posted by miguelitoh2o
January 8, 2009 2:49 PM | Reply | Permalink

I want to see articles like this written every week as a reminder, lest we forget.

God, Feith, Bolton, Yoo, even Gonzo show up in newspapers and on cable making black look white,
hard seem soft. Just liars.

We have free speech (although nothing is free) in this country and so the best that can be had is a response to lies and deception.

I try to his Salon every day. Greenwald is also very good.

Posted by dickday in reply to a comment from miguelitoh2o
January 8, 2009 3:01 PM | Reply | Permalink

One of the best he has ever written, and I have read them all - true

Posted by JohnMcCSF
January 8, 2009 7:24 PM | Reply | Permalink

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