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sledgehammer 07/09/2010 09:29 AM Report
Juan Cole reminds me of Tariq Ramadan. He gives different spiels to different audiences, but the bottom line is that he's fiercely anti-American and does not even believe in the British Mandate's creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine! HELLLLLOOOOO!
ShalomFreedman 04/21/2009 09:32 PM Report
Cole comes on here as much more moderate figure than he actually is. No mention is made of his strong anti- Americanism which relates to his fundamental anti- colonialist view of the world. Cole has written for years extremely harsh anti- American criticisms. Charlie Rose should at least inform his viewers as to where Cole is coming from. He should have mentioned the controversy over Cole's rejection of appointment at Yale.
With all this, Cole says a number of very interesting things in this interview. First, his explanation of why the oil- regimes are generally non- democratic makes a certain sense. He too provides a controversial view of the threat presented by the radical Islamic forces to the U.S. in Pakistan- Afghanistan.
Cole is a knowledgable , and extremely biased observer of the Islamic world. He could have gone on for years speaking about its problems and difficulties but makes it seem as if its real problems are a matter of the 'outside world's ' relation to it. The backwardness of a good part of this world is a subject he simply does not address.
It is of course wise not to insult or humiliate others gratuitously , and wise to show others respect and consideration. I believe the Obama Administration is especially determined to do this in regard to the Islamic world. But this will not change the character of the regimes, the culture, the real problems.
REMant 04/13/2009 02:14 PM Report
Well, in their concern for culture and community, they are like fascists, but, if you ask me the ministers, themselves, who bandy about the term Islamofascists exhibit more of what we claim to abhor about fascism, forgetting what Paul was at pains to explain in Romans, particularly Chap 9. Reflecting their own childhood humiliations, Americans tend to think of "authoritarians" as envious, which is clearly not the case, rather the opposite. Arabs are jealous, not envious, requiring humility only before God. God for such ppl can be considered as absolute and arbitrary, or absolute and lawful, and tho I'd think Shiites may differ in the degree to which they believe the latter, I'd suspect very few Shiites believe God is manipulable, as we, and, perhaps, many Sunnis, do. As Wright remarked, they say carrots and sticks are for donkeys. Too, while it is common for us to consider fascism and communism as two sides of the same coin, that was clearly not so to the fascists, who condemned them for their corporate ideology. Facism began as a middle-class movement for the restoration of culture and community, but slid into the same sort of corporate (and oligarchical) ideology, not unlike our own progressive one. That process was described by Detlev Peukert. And many of their views denounced today, such as Social Darwinism, were and still are to a large extent widely held by progressives here and around the world. To those who think then that this is appeasement, I'd like to point out that Chamberlain's fault lay not in speaking softly, nor even in attempting to redress some of the WWI peace treaty's inequities, but in failing to carry a big stick. (Not, of course, that I think Teddy had in mind carrots and sticks when he said that.) That is why strength at home is the first imperative of sound foreign policy. Because the danger we face from radical Islam, if you want to call it that, is that they will forget their own humility in the process of teaching us ours.
sshaler 04/11/2009 11:14 PM Report
This interview is difficult to listen to. The dozens of Iraqis I know in Baghdad and formerly from Falluja, before it was leveled, never talk about oil, religion or anything in this discourse. They talk about the slaughter of their families and friends and the loss of their homes and devastated peace of mind.
sshaler 04/11/2009 11:08 PM Report
Venezuela is a democracy. Because the US-backed coup didn't work, it's become glaringly clear to the world that Venezuela is a democracy and that democracy is working well there. The US is the only place in the world I've heard of that doesn't acknowledge and celebrate that.