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Juan Cole says it’s just about over.
Archive for the ‘Libya’ Category
March 28th, 2011
Category: Libya
Obama appealed to it tonight. You think that will shut the wingnuts up? Me neither.
March 28th, 2011
The abuse of a good idea, the responsibility to protect, to justify the Libyan intervention.
March 24th, 2011
Category: Libya
Juan Cole - an accredited expert, and no unthinking hawk - certainly seems to think so.
March 21st, 2011
Foreign policy analysis will get a lot better when we stop using flatulent phrases like “strategic”, “reactive,” “leadership” or “realistic.”
March 21st, 2011
Even if Libya turns into a quagmire, here are three reasons why a Qaddafist insurgency would pale in comparison to Iraq.
February 21st, 2011
Category: Libya
I don’t have any special expertise about international diplomacy, the culture and history of the Maghreb, or revolutions in general, but something has to be said about what’s happening in Libya. News is scarce but it now seems reasonably certain that the government has unleashed widespread death by air attack, and by invited foreign forces [...]
