Abuse Allegations Are Big Deal Wp

Juan Cole 05/03/2004

Abuse Allegations are ‘a Big Deal’: WP.

Sewell Chan of the WP has an article today, “U.S. Official: Abuse Allegations Are ‘a Big Deal’ .” Now this is more like it. I’m quoted: ‘ “The public relations damage is profound and permanent,” said Juan Cole, a professor of modern Middle Eastern history at the University of Michigan. “The release of these pictures may be the point at which the United States lost Iraq.” . (More on this theme, as mentioned earlier, in my essay at TomDispatch.com.)

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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