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At the Jewish Leadership Conference in NY a few weeks ago, I argued that Trump's strategy in the Middle East makes sense, that Israel will be our best ally, and that making up with Turkey is wise |https://youtu.be/z--RFa2UNaA
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I answered this criticism, at length, here: https://twitter.com/doranimated/status/1203670469892878336?s=21 …https://twitter.com/charles_lister/status/1204041537795100672…
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This issue feels “strategic,” gets tons of media attention, makes Euros feel virtuous, & sticks a finger in Trump’s eye. Best of all: it entails no risk. Lux isn’t putting a Pal state on its own border. There’s nothing more fun than a night at the casino on somebody else’s dime. https://twitter.com/optrusteelg/status/1204033144338272256 …
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I answered that question long before you asked it. | https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/israel-zionism/2019/12/american-grand-strategy-why-kissinger-got-peacemaking-right-and-carter-got-it-wrong-and-israels-turkey-problem/ … https://twitter.com/mdubowitz/status/1203769391831289862 …pic.twitter.com/ku9tkZjmcb
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Obama routinely cooked intel to feed the Echo Chamber | "A person identified only as a sr. Nat Sec Council official said there was constant pressure from the Obama WH and Pentagon to produce figures to show the troop surge...was working, despite hard evidence to the contrary."https://twitter.com/doranimated/status/1204016715853713413…
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Qassem Soleimani has sent 9 love letters to the US in recent weeks | “There have been at least nine attacks against U.S. targets in Iraq in the past six weeks.”https://en.radiofarda.com/a/rockets-hit-base-near-baghdad-airport-six-wounded----military-statement/30315296.html…
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“With most speaking on the assumption that their remarks would not become public, US officials acknowledged that their...strategies were fatally flawed and that Washington wasted enormous sums of money trying to remake Afghanistan into a modern nation.”https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/afghanistan-papers/afghanistan-war-confidential-documents/…
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See if you can pick up a position on a corporate board. The pay is good and the work is light.https://twitter.com/preetbharara/status/1203836501785825282…
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Have the protests against Iranian influence in Iraq made it unpleasant for Iranians working there? An Iranian businessman writes in his Twitter account that when he last traveled to Iraq he was careful not to flash his passport around and to avoid speaking in Farsi.pic.twitter.com/XlV5QihYYU
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The First Amendment and the very idea of free speech are under attack in America today. You're not going to be able to protect people, so the best you can do is make them strong. Movie available in theatres near you, beginning this weekend, December 6th at http://nosafespaces.com/theaters pic.twitter.com/IDIOUeJ1ax
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“This talk about Turkey not being a reliable ally. I find this very upsetting because this is not true. The terrorist threat we face from Syria is a fundamental national security concern. NATO allies have really failed to understand that. Allies have to be there for other allies”pic.twitter.com/TJQvsKD7QL
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The first law of international relations: if Luxembourg is gaining influence in your organization, your organization is losing influence |https://www.timesofisrael.com/luxembourg-said-pushing-for-eu-states-to-recognize-palestine/…
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The Washington Post Opinion page: If you don't agree with us, you must be a Russian assetpic.twitter.com/AZSeyySOlM
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Footnote: the militia is the state, and the state is the militia. So you have no chance to report it to the police or security forces.
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He's right. All of the people screaming that Trump drove the YPG into the arms of the Russians, Iranians and the Assad regime would be wise to meditate on this claim.https://twitter.com/OmerOzkizilcik/status/1203676930018553856…
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It's time for the US to ask basic questions about its goals in Iraq & the Iraqi government as a partner for achieving them. Qassem Soleimani comes & goes freely. He orders Iranian-controlled militias to do his bidding. And they do as as he says. Who in Iraq can stop him?https://twitter.com/AlbertoMiguelF5/status/1203780453817298944…
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In case you hear something go bump in the night | A Syrian Air Force cargo plane just flew from Tehran to an air base in Hama.pic.twitter.com/iiY2JbjDqb
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Some people have a way of blending in.pic.twitter.com/hDVAeD7Mj9
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Atrocities in Iran are crimes against humanity: systematic jailing, torturing & killing of countless Iranians based on cultural identity & national aspirations. Through brutal repression & mass murder, regime seeks to destroy Iranian nation & history: a genocide.
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Democracy is under threat.https://twitter.com/GadiTaub1/status/1203758566244528129…
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The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1203737404848390144…
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The press has invented an intel community consensus that does not actually exist.https://twitter.com/kwelkernbc/status/1203681439587409922…
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If Katie Hill learned one thing in school, it's how to share. She shared her tattoos & tawdry marriage; now she's sharing the personal struggle her sharing created. I'm sure she had a horrific time, and I wish her the best. But she's an exhibitionist. Less sharing, please.https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status/1203678480199753728…
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"the human rights community" in the US should take to heart.
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Syrian refugees in Turkey -- suppose we asked them, "Who is advancing the most moral agenda, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan or the editors of the WaPo?" How would they answer? I'm willing to bet a lot of money they would overwhelmingly support Erdoğan. If I'm right, that's a fact that...
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Neither Trump nor Pompeo are the enemies of that project. The Washington Post is. If anyone in this situation is guilty of weaponizing the mass murder of Middle Easterners for political purposes it is them, not me. Here's a thought experiment. If we were to poll the 3.6 million
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The key to achieving that goal is finding an accommodation w/Turkey. That means not attacking Turkey for its policies in NE Syria, and extolling the perceived virtues of the YPG/PKK. It entails finding an accommodation with Ankara that it and the Washington can both live with.
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These purportedly moral positions come at the cost of responsible strategy. They are imprudent, and therefore immoral. Look at the map. Look at the forces arrayed on the map. The most moral thing the US can do in the Middle East is to stop Russia and Iran in Syria.
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of horrific death for political purposes,” you have found it there. The WaPo routinely denigrates Turkey’s security concerns. It has run a yearlong campaign against MBS over the Khashoggi murder; it regards the JCPOA as a beneficial deal—and so on and so forth.
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with Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Israel. The WaPo (together with the rest of the prestige press) is fighting that conception tooth & nail. Just yesterday or the day before, it blamed Trump for the harsh repression of protestors in Iran. If you are looking for an “exploitation
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and morality that ignores grand strategy (the alignment of states) is at best a waste of time and at worst entirely destructive of the moral goals they purport to advance. The best basis for human rights in the Middle East is a regional order based on US power in an alliance
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w/the aid of a servile & sycophantic press) aligned the US with Iran from Baghdad to Beirut; (4) Trump has reversed key elements of that realignment, but there is much more work to be done. I also believe that: (5) especially in the Middle East, any discussions of human rights
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to contain Iran (and Russia, too, but Iran above all); (2) the primary partners of the US in that effort are Israel, Turkey, and KSA; (3) Obama (with the support of some Republicans in Congress, a DoD fixated on counterterrorism and blind to regional order of states, and
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You raise important concerns about the intersection of politics, strategy, & morality. Thank you. Twitter is not the place to answer them w/the seriousness they deserve, but please allow me to make a few basic points. I believe that: (1) the strategic imperative of the US ishttps://twitter.com/Elizrael/status/1203577594156920832…
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Idlib, Syria. After the intensive Russian bombing today, people are dug out of the rubble. Where is the Washington Post’s outrage machine?pic.twitter.com/oDFDdvcQgY
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Today the US once again deployed an RX9 “Ninja” missile (with no exploding warhead so as to avoid unnecessary casualties) — this time on a target in northern Syria, in the Turkish-controlled Azaz region.pic.twitter.com/kgqUwS968x
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“In a leaked audio recording from the party’s disciplinary committee in late October, a Labour official complains that more than 130 cases remain outstanding even though the ‘vast majority’ were reported to the party 18 months ago.”https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/exposed-the-secret-labour-files-of-shame-mwhhfkknv…
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Trump's to blame for Iran's repression, says the WaPo, parroting the ICG. In this article (http://bit.ly/CrisisGrp ),
@AcrossTheBay explained how the ICG fashioned a consensus based on Alice in Wonderland logic. Here you can see the process in action. |https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/irans-bloody-repression-of-protests-was-an-answer-to-the-trump-administration/2019/12/06/d90adf4a-16bd-11ea-a659-7d69641c6ff7_story.html… -
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Iranian official indirectly explained the brutal violence and massacre of protesters in Iran: We feared that the
#IraqProtests and#LebanonProtests would trickle into Iranhttps://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/1202633568905760777…
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