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Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
@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
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
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
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
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
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
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
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
RT @thepacketrat: @Max_Fisher Doctrines should just be called "excuses" so we're transparent about them. — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
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
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
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
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
In retrospect, even that narrowest-possible definition of a "Bush doctrine" does not withstand scrutiny. Here's why: — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
"Bush doctrine" just refers to his embrace of unilateral preemptive war and hardly accounts for other major decisions. — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
More "doctrines" are often just a grabby way of describing one particular FP policy change, rather than any grand ideology. — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
"Truman Doctrine" increasingly looks like just a fancy way of saying Cold War power balancing, rather than some expression of Truman's soul. — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
Even the "doctrines" that we learn about in school make less and less sense when viewed with the lens we apply to present-day presidents. — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
As time passes, historians, tellingly, take the opposite view: FP largely shaped by a tangle of bureaucratic & structural factors. — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
Second, that all presidents have a super-secret, ideology-driven rulebook or decoder ring by which US foreign policy decisions are made. — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
...as well as degree to which USFP is shaped by impersonal domestic & intl structural factors. Conflicts with US mythology of our own power. — PolitiTweet.org
Max Fisher @Max_Fisher
This is a standard we'd never apply to other countries but apply to our own bc it lets us ignore emotionally unappealing messiness of FP — PolitiTweet.org
