Wiping Off Face Of Map

Juan Cole 08/07/2006

Wiping off the Face of the Map (Reprint)

This bothered enough of the right people that I thought I’d reprint from Saturday. Note for the humorless: it is an editorial photo-cartoon, not news analysis.

A Beirut neighborhood before and after Israeli indiscriminate bombing

The difference between Ahmadinejad and Olmert is that the Iranian president is a blowhard. The one who had practical plans to wipe a country off the map was Olmert.

About the Author

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan and an adjunct professor, Gulf Studies Center, Qatar University. He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page