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International security prof, fellow , author of book on terrorist leaders: . Lucky husband to .

Boston, MA
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    19 Sep 2018

    Rules for Rebels: The Science of Victory in Militant History comes out this week. Here’s an early book review.

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  2. 2 hours ago

    The terms “terrorist” & “conspiracy theorist” have a lot in common. Both are applied selectively & strategically to serve establishment interests. The terms can be defined analytically but are abused by governments & media for instrumental reasons to delegitimize the unpopular.

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  3. 3 hours ago

    Imagine thinking America opposes Iran because it’s undemocratic. Facts: America toppled the popularly elected government of Iran and arms authoritarian countries (Saudi Arabia & UAE) to counter Iran. He teaches at Stanford.

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  4. When journalists and think tankers began saying that removing Assad was essential to making progress against ISIS, I thought wow they’re total idiots who don’t know a thing about counterterrorism or Syria. Now we know exactly how that ubiquitous bs talking point was cooked up.

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  5. Syria envoy brags about getting Syria wrong: “Pompeo and I convinced people in the administration of this: If you don’t deal with the underlying problem of Iran in Syria, you’re not going to deal in an enduring way with IS. We saw this all as one thing.”

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  6. We literally arm Saudi Arabia and the UAE to counter Iran. This is not about democracy.

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  7. Yeah because America’s problem with Iran is it’s not a democracy 😂

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  8. The lesson of NeverTrumpers is you can get every major foreign policy issue in life wrong but welcomed into the establishment as an expert if you go after Trump.

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  10. Alternate Headline: Please, Please Topple Assad! Regime Change Has Worked Great in Iraq and Libya! This Branch of Al Qaeda Is Nice, I Swear! Stoking Civil Wars Is Fun! Who Cares About Creating Countless Refugees! Let's Team Up with Erdogan, Yay!

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  11. There just aren't enough top posts for Biden to make all of his endorsers happy. Patronage has limits.

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  12. Dec 11

    In the end, who understood Israel better?

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  13. Dec 11

    You’d think based on Biden’s comments & cabinet picks that Obama was outstanding at foreign policy. I liked Obama but he was clueless about the Arab Spring, Yemen, Syria, Al Qaeda, Israel, Afghanistan, Libya, Turkey. If Biden sees that presidency as his model we’re in trouble.

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  14. Dec 10

    The goal of our Syria policy is to make sure the country suffers. That’s the metric of sanctions success — suffering.

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  15. Dec 10

    Josh Rogin would have blocked me a long time ago but then whom would he call an Assadist for not arming Al Qaeda?

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  16. Retweeted
    Dec 10
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  17. Dec 10

    This isn't surprising when you consider that in Syria the think tank community criticized the hell out of anyone who didn't want us to arm Al Qaeda-linked rebel groups that explicitly regarded the Taliban as their model to emulate.

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  18. Dec 10

    This will help quell any Libya discussion.

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  19. Dec 10

    The conventional wisdom used to be that Arab countries would never normalize relations with Israel until it made peace with the Palestinians. This was the conventional wisdom because those who said this wanted it to be true. Trump helped show it's not. So did Egypt & Jordan.

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  20. Dec 10

    You have to admit that Trump helped to blow up a lot of the conventional wisdom about Israel that was just mindlessly repeated for decades.

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  21. Dec 10

    Re-start the flurry of comments about how Trump deserves no credit for Israel normalizing relations with four Arab countries.

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