Max Fisher

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@mattyglesias congratulations on your new washington post column — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @mattyglesias: They demonstrated resolve and sent a strong message not only to the one passenger, but also North Korea. https://t.co/3qe… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @rickgladstone: Limited symbolic punitive strike by Trump unlikely to alter Assad's thinking, war scholars say. @Max_Fisher https://t.co… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Here is a great way to undermine the deterrence value of your own action https://t.co/iUB5pRFVWf — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

😱 https://t.co/dzycZa6lEa — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Joshua_Pollack: @Max_Fisher Here. I figured out how to referee it. You're welcome. https://t.co/dXjQZllNGj — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@Joshua_Pollack The quadruple-feint in the opening of the piece is great — PolitiTweet.org

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@CharlesPPierce Sure, but little evidence that this determined the administration's decision on this or any other u… https://t.co/mWFqA3R7R9 — PolitiTweet.org

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@loosebricks This is another odd thing about the "it was Congress's fault" arguments: they imply that strikes would… https://t.co/H84cEFiW24 — PolitiTweet.org

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@DLind Yeah, it wasn't exactly a secret that putting it to Congress was meant to formalize the decision that had already been made. — PolitiTweet.org

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Basically no one has ever changed their initial view on the 2013 Syria decision and we are doomed to continue rehearsing this debate forever — PolitiTweet.org

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At the same time, lingering intra-admin debate over Syria strikes is now being spun as "even Obama's own team now says he was wrong." — PolitiTweet.org

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Revisionism watch: libs arguing Obama was blocked from striking Syria by Congressional GOPs. He threw to Congress precisely bc they'd say no — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@AbuJamajem If you liked Obama-era drifting then you're going to love Trump-era flailing. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@AbuJamajem Yes. I think that's how, tho few in admin would actively push both ideas (except Kerry), policy converg… https://t.co/LjokxHkpDg — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@AbuJamajem Think it was this plus the fallacy that a mutually acceptable negotiated solution existed. Some in admi… https://t.co/ahg9XZpbTM — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Light some $10M firecrackers over a Syrian airfield might make us feel better but is not going to make those core problems less unsolvable — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

There are a lot of core, unsolvable problems with Syria but this is a big one. https://t.co/Aw5ZUta627 — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@AricToler we are doomed — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

If he's referring to e.g. deconfliction, then this is not actually surprising or much, if any, of a policy shift. https://t.co/9UH8DYIivR — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @thepacketrat: @Max_Fisher Doctrines should just be called "excuses" so we're transparent about them. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @dhnexon: @Max_Fisher By 2005 it was staring to become clear that "Bush Doctrine" was built to justify Iraq; it was never "used" again.… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@DenisonBe @smsaideman Yes but point is that this is best explained thru structural dynamics — e.g. counter-balanci… https://t.co/HlMZUtnxvr — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @GlennKesslerWP: @Max_Fisher Read any detailed history book about any detailed foreign policy conundrum, and you see they were making it… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Calling that a doctrine implies it stems from some deliberate plan or that it can be relied upon to anticipate future behavior. Not sure. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

To the degree Trump is diverging from median USFP, he is driven by impulsiveness, lack of engagement with policy, and focus on domestic pol. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

There's a reason you almost never see historians argue "President X came into office with doctrine Y, which explains his entire FP agenda." — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

If Bush was really driven by an all-encompassing "doctrine," why the reversal on the freedom agenda? Why more constrained FP in term two? — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

This is how every president conducts FP: the grand sweeping ideological justifications comes after the decision, not before. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Bush decided to go to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, for reasons particular to those cases, then later sought ideological justification. — PolitiTweet.org