Here is just a taste of Juan Coles pompous assinity at work.

Murdoc Online: "It's called courage": " Vincent did not know anything serious about Middle Eastern culture and was aggressive about criticizing what he could see of it on the surface, and if he was behaving in the way the Telegraph article describes, he was acting in an extremely dangerous manner.'"

Here is Mrs. Steve Vincent disassembling that model of assinity Juan Cole. I suspect that were Juan Cole to meet Mrs. Steven Vincent he might get more than this terrific lashing by word.

If you cannot differentiate between Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cultures, how is it you feel qualified to pontificate so pompously?

How often have you been to the Middle East, Mr. Cole? In 2000 Steven and I spent almost a month in Iran on vacation. In 2003 we spent 10 days over Christmas in Jordan. In the last 2 years he had made not one, not two, but three trips to Iraq, and at the time of his death had about 7 months of daily living there under his belt. Can you offer comparables?

Back to you Juan baby!

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