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Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. Adjunct Professor at George Washington University. Motorcyclist. All views my own.

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Joined October 2012
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    Sep 11

    Latest by me and on seven years of US policy in .

    NEW Issue Brief→ US Policy in Syria: A Seven-Year Reckoning by and …
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  2. 2 hours ago

    And here I was wondering why my I’m not living large despite record stock market highs courtesy of Team Trump. Conventional macroeconomic indicators are useful of course... just not as a measure of human security or dignity.

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  3. 3 hours ago

    True, no huge revelations. But something about reading it over several hundred pages melts part of one’s brain.

    Woodward's "Fear" is filled with compelling accounts of life inside the White House. But by now, it seems like a broken record.
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  4. 3 hours ago

    It’s not that everything he says is wrong (including on Oslo). It’s just wrong to cast it as a negotiation. Nuking japan helped the chances of a deal too, by crushing the other side’s will to resist. I accept power politics, as long as its unadulterated.

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    13 hours ago

    John Kerry had illegal meetings with the very hostile Iranian Regime, which can only serve to undercut our great work to the detriment of the American people. He told them to wait out the Trump Administration! Was he registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act? BAD!

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  6. Sep 12

    bizarre

    Anjem Choudary is responsible for sending dozens of young men to fight with Islamic State, He radicalised hundreds more and is linked to several terrorist plots. The UK legal system continues to show tolerance towards the most intolerant extremists. …
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  7. Sep 12

    LOL "Hurricane Florence to have little effect on D.C. area through the weekend. Chance of rain next week."

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    Sep 12

    As often, a must read; revamping authoritarianism through reconstruction in .

    Reconstructing Authoritarianism - great piece by ⁦⁩ on Syria reconstruction risks
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    Sep 12

    At this point of the Syrian conflict, and however closely you've been watching, it's important to reflect on how things unfolded & on the US policy since 2011. Luckily you can do just that by reading this 17-page issue brief by

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    Sep 12

    Fascinating - ’s MIT intelligence service went deep undercover in ’s to capture "Yusuf Nazik” - accused of coordinating the May 2013 car bombings in , which killed 52 people. Nazik has admitted he was working on Mukhabarat orders.

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  11. Sep 12

    Excellent, and provocative. I guess he’s right.

    My new essay for on why the liberal international order no longer works as the organizing principle of US strategy and what should take its place …
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    Sep 12

    Twitter apparently suspends account of 's deputy commander of Popular Mobilization Units.

    Twitter has closed the account of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of Iraq's Hashd al-Shaabi. "We're astounded by this act," said Hashd today. " administration has…
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  13. Sep 12

    Wow

    JUST IN from SecDef Mattis: "I endorse and fully support Secretary Pompeo’s certification to the Congress that the governments of Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates are making every effort to reduce the risk of civilian casualties”
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  14. Retweeted
    Sep 12

    Well worth the read on and the U.S. policy toward the conflict over the course of two American administrations. At times, this report reads like tragedy. by and

    Latest by me and on seven years of US policy in .
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  15. Retweeted
    Sep 11

    A good synthetic review of 7 years of (non or bad) policies re-. By & , two serious guys who know their stuff.

    NEW Issue Brief→ US Policy in Syria: A Seven-Year Reckoning by and …
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  16. Sep 11

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    As Trump/Pompeo threaten with a "response" to renewed violence in , and I decided now was a good time to publish our paper challenging US decision-making in Syria over the past seven years. 1/6 …
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  17. Sep 11

    Couldn’t agree more. As a regionalist rather than scholar of jihadism, it took me a while to wrap my head around all the silliness in that field today. ⁦⁩ is correct: today’s extremist groups are local insurgencies, to be fought as such.

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  18. Sep 10

    *establish

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  19. Sep 10

    I’m always curious as to how presidents establishment causality between their being presidents and GDP growth.

    “President Trump would need a magic wand to get to 4% GDP,” stated President Obama. I guess I have a magic wand, 4.2%, and we will do MUCH better than this! We have just begun.
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  20. Sep 10

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    Wow, NFL first game ratings are way down over an already really bad last year comparison. Viewership declined 13%, the lowest in over a decade. If the players stood proudly for our Flag and Anthem, and it is all shown on broadcast, maybe ratings could…
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