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Juan Cole is President of the Global Americana Institute

Sunday, August 26, 2007

Cole on Air America with Sam Seder, Sunday

Catch my interview at Air America with Sam Seder on Sunday, August 26 at 6 pm, regarding my new book, Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East.

posted by Juan Cole @ 8/26/2007 12:05:00 AM

1 Comments:

At 11:01 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Professor Cole, really more like gave a glorified and dignified reasoning in this video for waging the Iraqi armed robbery by comparing it to Napoleon invasion of Egypt.

There is not a hint of honesty in the motives to invade Iraq, such as Democracy or removing an oppressive dictator. It is rather an insult to our intelligence to even hint this, since we all know that the Americans are the one that brought and supported for decades the diabolic Baathist regime of Saddam and the like other regimes in the Middle East and some other 50+ notorious evil dictators in the past 60 years, from Edi Amin to Pol Pot and the Pahlavi. It was, just like 9/11 an op for profit, comparable to a typical Crusaders war for enrichment waged by some lords and Church icons if you want to compare it than to a strategic war for an empire position.

With all the skilled professionals available at the disposal of the cash hungry plotters, they opted to an outdated mode of imperialism that has already failed in every country for the past 100 years.

Compare that to China for example or Eastern Europe. Where investments and developments were the modus opri to effect change and forge a strategic alliance that is based on mutual economic advantages. It was far more effective than pure colonialism.

 

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