{"id":17526,"date":"2014-06-19T10:52:15","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T14:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=17526"},"modified":"2014-06-19T10:52:15","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T14:52:15","slug":"juan-cole-mass-sunni-uprising-forces-iraq-to-confront-sectarian-blowback-of-2003-u-s-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/06\/19\/juan-cole-mass-sunni-uprising-forces-iraq-to-confront-sectarian-blowback-of-2003-u-s-invasion\/","title":{"rendered":"Juan Cole: Mass Sunni Uprising Forces Iraq to Confront Sectarian Blowback of 2003 U.S. Invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Democracy Now<\/em> has the interview <a title=\"Democracy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2014\/6\/17\/juan_cole_abundance_of_caution_invasions\" target=\"_blank\">Juan Cole: Mass Sunni Uprising Forces Iraq to Confront Sectarian Blowback of 2003 U.S. Invasion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ARON MAT\u00c9: And, Juan Cole, how would you characterize this conflict right now? When we talk about ISIS, it\u2019s generally referred to as this monolithic force, but of course there are many militant groups that comprise this pushback against the Iraqi government. So, your assessment of the overall picture right now?<\/p>\n<p>JUAN COLE: I don\u2019t believe that we can think about the\u2014what has happened in Iraq as a series of military conquests. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is a small group, a few thousand fighters. It doesn\u2019t have formations or brigades. And I think what really happened was that they have cells on the ground in the Sunni Arab cities, and they coordinated with other groups, including secular and socialist groups, like ex-Baathists, to stage urban uprisings against the al-Maliki regime and its security forces. So, I think that this is a very complex phenomenon and an expression of popular discontent, and not just a series of military advances.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nJUAN COLE: Well, the Bush administration very explicitly sided with the Shiites and wanted to create a Shiite-dominated government and enthusiastically cooperated in the de-Baathification or the firing of thousands and thousands of Sunni bureaucrats and teachers from their jobs. So this\u2014this was a policy of the Bush administration, and it is, in some large part, responsible for the current crisis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/embed\/story\/2014\/6\/17\/juan_cole_abundance_of_caution_invasions\" style=Border: thick ridge #009900\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Here is the link&nbsp; to Juan Cole&#8217;s blog <a title=\"Juan Cole's blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.juancole.com\" target=\"_blank\">Informed Comment<\/a> that is mentioned several times in the video.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Marden Seavey&#8217;s posting this on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Mard101\/posts\/10203774733430576\" title=\"Mardy's posting\" target=\"_blank\">his Facebook wall<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democracy Now has the interview Juan Cole: Mass Sunni Uprising Forces Iraq to Confront Sectarian Blowback of 2003 U.S. Invasion. ARON MAT\u00c9: And, Juan Cole, how would you characterize this conflict right now? When we talk about ISIS, it\u2019s generally referred to as this monolithic force, but of course there are many militant groups that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17526","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17527,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17526\/revisions\/17527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}