Max Fisher

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

If your standard for bold decisive leadership is doing something that will have the opposite of its intended consequence, this is great. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

A lot of folks very excited that America “punished” Assad. Okay, but we did it in a way that tells him benefits of using sarin exceed costs. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Everything we know about the dynamics of war suggests Trump’s strikes will only deepen Assad’s calculus on using CW https://t.co/x1tvw4BLIK — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Trump is testing a theory on changing Syria's behavior: "limited, symbolic and punitive." Why I doubt it can work: https://t.co/5TOwDePyPc — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @soniasodha: This is excellent https://t.co/2IbfC8Eeky — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

I found this 1996 study — on "diversionary foreign policy" and US wars — pretty, um, interesting… https://t.co/dcxUxWM7Id — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Here is the core problem that virtually ensures no US strikes — strong or "symbolic" — can change Assad's behavior… https://t.co/MjPFKRbaWl — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

On what these strikes mean + what they'll do: Syria’s Conundrum: Limited Strikes Risk Entrenching Assad’s Strategy https://t.co/5TOwDePyPc — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

I wrote this in August but the dynamics all still apply: virtually any escalation will only deepen the conflict’s self-perpetuation dynamics — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Syria’s Paradox: Why the War Only Ever Seems to Get Worse https://t.co/OcpGsDcDM4 — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @stcolumbia: Amazing watching how willingly pundit Blob eats up symbolic, ineffectual strikes w/ more coordination w/ Russia than Congre… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @PDWilliamsGWU: MUST READ article on conflict resolution; intervention; peacekeeping & the war in #Syria. Brilliant work @Max_Fisher htt… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Here is the quote of the day from our newsletter today. Perhaps you’ll find it relevant to the news on Syria.… https://t.co/jollHWVQAF — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@chrislhayes i think @JyShapiro has done research on the uniquely american practice of lofty justifications for war… https://t.co/066ne5ym11 — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@chrislhayes this developed in the early 1900s. US an island nation, so leaders needed morality/identity-based argu… https://t.co/1LEquZiJZL — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

oh good, i was worried i might sleep ever again. thanks josh. https://t.co/entd1EPx1P — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @mattdpearce: Cable TV is gonna play more videos of missile launches than any explanation of our long-term policy in Syria. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@drfarls @_Aalln_ how short? is my memory playing tricks on me or did we do this in yugoslavia? — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @drfarls: Again, suggests Syria received advance notice. #securitytheater https://t.co/hTEZj9x6jU — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Partisan tribalism is so powerful that it just started a war https://t.co/jeG88bTFoB — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @WordsofMcCarthy: War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@RNicholasBurns But is *any* response sufficient to alter his strategic calculus? Was this response? — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

He will then have to decide whether to step back and incur domestic costs or escalate enough to hurt Assad, guaranteeing counter-escalation. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

When it bcomes clear strikes have not changed Assad’s behavior, Trump will come under enormous domestic & intl pressure to go further. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Overheated debate over 2013 redline has established a narrative that punitive strikes could've saved Syria. Surely Trump exposed to this. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

DC folks & cable news types have been saying for years that punitive Syria strikes would do amazing things. Maybe Trump believed them. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

We’ve had four years of furious debate over whether symbolic punitive strikes on Syria would alter regime behavior. Now we’ll find out. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @drfarls: @_Aalln_ @Max_Fisher And of course it's basically impossible to destroy an airfield; can be back in operation in fairly short… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

If this is it, then the message it sends is that US will extract only a symbolic — and easily bearable — cost for Syrian chem weapons usage. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Syrian regime has repeatedly proven it will incur costs far greater than temporarily losing a single airfield. No reason to change strategy. — PolitiTweet.org