Eliot A Cohen

@EliotACohen

Professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS; former Counselor of the Department of State. Contributing editor . Latest book is (2017).

Joined May 2015
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    29 Jan 2017

    WaPo, WSJ, and NYT reviews of here: ... ...

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  2. Retweeted
    Oct 19

    I understand why the use of “warrior” is effective as a recruiting tool. But I also worry it’s a bad precedent that undermines the norm that soldiers in the U.S. are first and always citizens.

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    There are those who are compelled to act when others don't. Are you one of them?
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  3. Oct 17

    Honored to be a signatory.

    The Trump administration proposes to silence democracy in DC by requiring all demonstrations to get permits, making demonstrators pay for these permits, and closing the White House sidewalk to protesters. Undemocratic, unconstitutional, and unbelievable.
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  4. Oct 17

    In an AP interview (1) complains that people fail to treat the Saudis as innocent til proven guilty in a grisly murder they undoubtedly committed; (2) defends not visiting our troops in a combat zone. All we need to know about his fitness for office right there.

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  5. Oct 14

    And I will add this: to say that the conservative thinkers to look to are those who "accept the populist turn" and hope to "supply coherence and intellectual ballast" to it is, in essence, a form of power worship -- a different way of bending the knee to those in charge.

    I often agree or at least am stimulated by . Not this time. An inquisitor searching for heretics and apostates (a word he uses) to expel is expressing a preference for dogma over reflection, and a preference for a creed over civil discourse.
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  6. Oct 14

    I often agree or at least am stimulated by . Not this time. An inquisitor searching for heretics and apostates (a word he uses) to expel is expressing a preference for dogma over reflection, and a preference for a creed over civil discourse.

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  7. Oct 8

    Sanity. That’s remarkable these days.

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  8. Retweeted
    Oct 7

    The GOP brain drain continues. And a fine resignation letter this is. .

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    Oct 7

    The Saudis appear to have murdered a US resident (& a contributor). The Chinese have arrested the head of INTERPOL. The Russians have used chem weapons on UK soil, etc. The worst impulses of brutal regimes are coming fwd bc/ no one is standing up against them.

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  10. Oct 8

    Precisely.

    In the past few days, China has disappeared two prominent citizens, Russia has killed a prosecutor, and Saudi Arabia has apparently murdered a journalist in one of its consulates. In the old days a US administration would’ve cared about these things & that would have mattered.
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  11. Oct 8

    Precisely.

    In the past few days, China has disappeared two prominent citizens, Russia has killed a prosecutor, and Saudi Arabia has apparently murdered a journalist in one of its consulates. In the old days a US administration would’ve cared about these things & that would have mattered.
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  12. Oct 5

    Maybe. But at least we can agree that young people should stop mumbling. Not the way we were brought up.

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    Tbqh: I am woke. You are cranky. 😉
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  13. Retweeted
    Oct 5

    Women who have confronted lawmakers over Kavanaugh to tell their own stories of sexual assault are actually "paid professionals only looking to make senators look bad," Trump says.

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  14. Oct 5

    My daughter tells me that my tweets show that I am woke. What the hell does that mean? Is it a plural of wok (I'm not a Chinese skillet)? An ungrammatical equivalent of awake (gets harder the older you are)? Or is it just another word for cranky, which is what I really am?

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  15. Oct 5

    And to be clear, I have no problems with cantankerous old white guys, being one myself. Its just that this really doesn't quite look like America, if you know what I mean.

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  16. Oct 5

    I think this picture illuminates the problem for the country just now - and more so, for the GOP in the long run.

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  17. Oct 4

    More Independents in the Senate -- Please

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  18. Oct 4

    Just read it and is right - its a powerful and disturbing piece. I don't think we'll go as far as the European states did in the 1930's, but some of the phenomena are definitely similar. Very much worth looking at.

    A terrifying assessment from a great historian of wartime Europe. Among other insights linking the ‘30s to our time, he sees McConnell as the “gravedigger of American democracy,” likening him to the far right enablers of a certain Austrian corporal...
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    Oct 4

    Press is so shocked HHeitkamp voted in a way with no obvious, immediate political reward. Ya know, some people think the Senate is a unique place to leave your mark, let the consequences be damned. Some people aren't sniveling cowards afraid they'll never get as cushy a job

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  20. Oct 4

    Bravo, !

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  21. Oct 3

    Opinion | I stepped down as U.S. ambassador to Estonia. Here’s why.

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