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tabatha

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3. Excellent. Juan Cole really understands and can put it into words.

Reply to pampango (Original post)

Sat Jan 28, 2012, 06:06 PM

Jan 2012

It is astonishing that anyone would expect to think things would be perfect afterwards.

After more than 200 years, the US is not perfect.

What is important, is for people to have the ability and voice to be able to fix things that are wrong.

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Cole: In the Arab world today the remarkable thing is that there are any political stories at all. [View all] pampango Jan 2012 OP

Thanks for this wonderful article by Juan Cole, pampango. Your bolding and italicizing is also... joshcryer Jan 2012 #1

I do like your sig. It's more generic than this "bigots" quote, but I think I'll go with pampango Jan 2012 #2

Nice sig. joshcryer Jan 2012 #4

Excellent. Juan Cole really understands and can put it into words. tabatha Jan 2012 #3