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Cole In Salon On Bushs Speech My Essay

Juan Cole 10/12/2006

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Cole in Salon on Bush’s Speech

My essay,

“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?”

is in Salon.com today.

Excerpt:

‘ On Wednesday, George W. Bush again laid out his rationale for declining to consider a drawdown of U.S. forces. . . Bush added, “We can’t tolerate a new terrorist state in the heart of the Middle East with large oil reserves that could be used to fund its radical ambitions or used to inflict economic damage on the West.” Although he said he was willing to try new approaches in Iraq, the tenor of his remarks was “stay the course.” ‘

Read the whole thing.

For those interested in the Middle East more generally see also Abu Aardvark’s new omnibus “Qahwah Sada” (Black Coffee) page on the Middle East, which starts with Toby Jones on Bahrain.

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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 He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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