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Post #271: The Israel-UAE Agreement: Good for a Few, Bad for Most

26 Aug 202025 Aug 2020
The Real Deal Commentators evidently desperate for good news are touting the Israel-United Arab Emirates (UAE) agreement as a welcome path to Middle East peace. The agreement trades Israel’s promise…
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Post #236: Iran—Who and Where is the Threat?

21 Jun 201921 Jun 2019
The official US narrative on Iran is that it is an escalating threat to “peace and security” in the Middle East and must be stopped. Step by step, with Mike…
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Post #218: Getting Away with Murder

15 Oct 2018
In March I wrote about the visit to Washington of Saudi Arabia’s new leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. At the time most of the media were reporting uncritically about…
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Post #150: The Honeymoon is Over

14 Feb 201727 Feb 2017
President Trump is often depicted as “unconventional” and his actions “unprecedented.”  But his novelty exposes him and his administration to closer scrutiny than any previous presidency. Turns out the emperor…
American Politics and the World…

Post #140: The Diplomacy of Donald J. Trump

27 Dec 201627 Feb 2017
Oblivious to Tradition and Good Sense Those of us who appreciate the unconventional have to have second thoughts after watching Donald J. Trump in action.  All the more so when…
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Post #133: Left Unsaid at the Third Debate

21 Oct 201627 Feb 2017
Donald Trump waited one day before delivering the punch line to his sad joke, “I will keep you in suspense” about respecting the election results.  “Unless I win,” he said…
American Politics and the World…

Post #118: Cowgirl Diplomacy? Foreign Policy Under Hillary Clinton

24 May 201627 Feb 2017
America’s mainstream media, ever attracted to the splashy rather than the serious, has a new topic to occupy the time until Election Day: President Trump.  What will he do first? …
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Post #117: Evaluating Obama’s Foreign Policy Record

15 May 201627 Feb 2017
So you’re not excited by Donald Trump’s announcement of his first foreign-policy acts as president: building the Mexico Wall, the No-Muslims Wall, the End-of-NATO Wall, and the China Trade Wall. …
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Post #96: Truth and Consequences

21 Oct 201527 Feb 2017
A recently discovered piece of Vietnam War history has new meaning today. At the same time that Richard Nixon was telling the public that the US air war in Vietnam…
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Post #84: The Engagement Critics

15 Jul 201527 Feb 2017
One of the predictable outcomes of any US effort to reset relations with an adversary is that allies start whining about their vulnerability and demanding some sort of compensation for…
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Post #78: The Middle East Quagmire: Give Peacemaking a Chance

23 May 201527 Feb 2017
The desperate state of US policy in the Middle East became apparent once again with the ISIS rout of the Iraqi army at Ramadi. It was another setback for US-supported…
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Post #73 – The Iran Framework: A Case Study in Engagement

8 Apr 201527 Feb 2017
We have every reason to celebrate the so-called framework agreement with Iran.  It exemplifies the best of President Obama’s foreign policy, namely, engaging adversaries.  Remember when candidate Obama’s argument for…
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Post #72 – An Enemy of Peace

30 Mar 201527 Feb 2017
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has established himself as the biggest enemy of peace in the Middle East.  His thoroughly unwelcome and error-marred speech to Congress on Iran, his last-minute…
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Post #68 – Netanyahu’s Visit and the US Opportunity

26 Feb 201527 Feb 2017
Washington is on edge these days.  Democrats are bewildered, the President is seething, Republicans are salivating, K Street and J Street lobbyists are working overtime—all because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…
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Post #61 – A Bad Start to the New Year in the Middle East

6 Jan 201527 Feb 2017
Having been thwarted in the UN Security Council when a vote to end Israel’s occupation of the West Bank went against it, the Palestinian Authority (PA) decided last week to…

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