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Juan Cole is the Richard P. Mitchell collegiate professor of history at the University of Michigan. He is the author of "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam: A New Translation From the Persian" and "Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires." His latest book (as editor) is "Peace Movements in Islam." His award-winning blog is Informed Comment.

A Pakistani police officer looks at remains of a vehicle destroyed by a bomb explosion in Lower Dir, Pakistan on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010. Three U.S. soldiers traveling with Pakistan security force members were killed Wednesday in a roadside bombing near a girl's school in northwest Pakistan, Pakistani security officials said. Other casualties included school children. (AP Photo/ Naveed Ali) (AP)

Pakistan bombing reveals U.S. troops in-country

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The twilight struggle for the leadership of Iraq

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Speech was short on foreign policy thinking

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Ignoring Gaza’s humanitarian crisis

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Did Obama win the Iraq War?

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A new Middle East cold war

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Men shout slogans during a protest rally on the streets of Karachi January 11, 2010. Several thousands protested against paramilitary and police search operation after a spate of violence in the city. They accused forces of targeting innocent people during the raid in which a paramilitary spokesman said about a dozen suspects were detained. REUTERS/Athar Hussain (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) (Reuters)

Mass assassinations threaten Pakistan

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Ominous signs in Afghanistan

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Iran protests heat up to a boil

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Protests spread across Iran

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China wins struggle for Pipelinestan

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Top 5 ways Obama can redeem his Nobel

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Student protests swarm Iran

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Pakistan, Taliban say bin Laden may be in Afghanistan

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President Barack Obama speaks about the war in Afghanistan at the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (Associated Press)

Obama’s surge: Has the president been misled by the Iraq analogy?

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Afghanistan President, Hamid Karzai, addresses the media on the occasion of Eid al-Adha, at the Presidential Palace mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Nov. 27, 2009. In his message to mark the major Muslim holiday of Eid, Karzai said that "all our ... brothers who stand armed against their country," including the militant Islamic faction Hezb-e-Islami led by warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, should help ensure stability and development in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi) (Mustafa Quraishi)

No one at the wheel in Afghanistan

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A man passes by a poster of the right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP/UDC) which shows a woman wearing a burqa against a background of a Swiss flag upon which several minarets resemble missiles at the central station in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009. Swiss citizens will vote on November 29 on a referendum launched by right-wing groups on whether the construction of minarets should be banned in Switzerland. (AP Photo/Keystone, Salvatore Di Nolfi) (Associated Press)

Bigotry wins in Switzerland

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Police officials survey the site of a suicide bomb explosion in Charsadda, located about 20 km (12 miles) northeast of Peshawar November 10, 2009. Pakistani Taliban militants vowed to fight a tough, protracted guerrilla war against the army on Tuesday as a suicide car-bomber killed up to 20 people in a northwestern town, police said. A suicide bomber in a car set off explosives in a square in the centre of Charsadda killing up to 20 people and wounding at least 30, town police chief Riaz Khan said. REUTERS/K Parvez (PAKISTAN CONFLICT) (Reuters)

Bombing in Charsadda kills 34, exposes local rifts

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The West Bank Jewish settlement of Beitar Ilit is seen through a barbed wire fence, Friday, Sept. 4, 2009. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to approve some hundreds of new housing units in West Bank settlements before slowing settlement construction, two of his aides said Friday, in an apparent snub of Washington's public demand for a total settlement freeze. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner) (Associated Press)

Israeli settlements could cause one-state solution

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Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah speaks with his supporters in Kabul Nov. 1.

Abdullah withdraws from Afghan presidential race

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U.S. troops are hostages of Iraq’s broken democracy

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President Barack Obama

Obama’s foreign policy report card

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The blowback from the Baghdad bombings

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Pakistan’s security is hanging in the balance

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