Middle East expert Prof. Juan Cole will be on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross today. Check it out.
( Tip: apostropher.)
Update: Here's the archived audio (RealPlayer). Cole's very mild-mannered, but he's scathingly critical of the neoconservatives who he describes as "extremely ignorant" of Iraq and dupes of Chalabi. About al-Sadr, he says that he's a bad actor, but has a lot of sympathy among other Shia. We should just leave him alone, and his militia will stop making trouble. This makes sense given that they didn't begin their revolt until the U.S. closed down a Sadr newspaper (which Cole describes as containing pretty outrageous lies, but ones that had not actually created any problems for the Americans.)
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