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  1. 17h

    Syria RT : Also, easier to have a death wish when you're making someone else run off cliff.

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  2. 20h

    RT : The only exercise I get these days is when I run and jump to plug my Mac products in the outlet before it hits 0%

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  3. 21h

    Thanks for the tweet!

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  4. 7 Jan

    The U.S. Is Giving Up on Middle East Democracy—and That's a Mistake - Shadi Hamid and Peter Mandaville - The Atlantic

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  5. 21h

    Last grafs of Ned Parker's piece are perhaps the most troubling: Obama admin sees the rise of AQ in through a narrow security lens.

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  6. 21h

    More from 's excellent piece: "Iraqi officials regularly complained that the Americans were absent."

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  7. 21h

    Yes RT : Indefensible for WH to say effects on could not have been foreseen

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  8. 21h

    Ex-US official: "Ppl [in DC] didn’t have a real feel for what was happening on the ground. No one took it seriously”

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  9. 21h

    Former US official on negotiations w- over troops: “There was never any clear guidance from Washington of what they wanted."

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  10. 21h

    Actually, if there was anything obvious from late 2011 on, it was that was going to have a pretty bad spillover effect.

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  11. 21h

    White House says no one could've predicted 's effect on Iraq. Actually many ppl did, incl. & .

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  12. 23h

    "Who Lost Iraq?" Great, depressing read by in mag. Pretty damning indictment of US policy:

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  13. 24h

    Reading 's latest on US- policy felt surreal. Same set of debates we've been having for 2 yrs:

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  14. 10 Jan

    Worth keeping in mind: "But while Pinochet was rarely admired for his intellect, he grew to be feared for his Machiavellian instincts."

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  15. 10 Jan

    "Still, new disclosures about the dictator, whose iron-fisted rule is still openly admired by some Chileans..."

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  16. 10 Jan

    .: "The official al Qaeda affiliate in Syria -- JAN -- arguably stands to gain the most from this current state of affairs."

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  17. 10 Jan

    Cautionary note on ISIS-rebel fight: "Syria's opposition [is] creating an enemy that will...cause considerabe instability for yrs."

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  18. 10 Jan

    . on after-effects of Iraqi sahwa: "Awakening Council militiamen are still a major target of near-daily ISIS killings."

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  19. 10 Jan

    ISIS as spoiler: "It has manpower & military capability to existentially damage the capacity of opposition forces to confront [regime]."

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  20. 10 Jan

    Must-read from on the fight btw ISIS & other Islamist rebels and what it could mean in longer-term:

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