Michael McFaul

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Mann, James. “Afghanistan: Flip of the COIN,” “‘It’s Not Like This Ghost in His Head’” and “The Speeches: ‘Evil Does Exist.’” In The Obamians: The Struggle Inside the White House to Redefine American Power, 117-155. Penguin Books, 2012. 11/ END THREAD — PolitiTweet.org

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Saunders, Elizabeth N. “Leaders, Advisers, and the Political Origins of Elite Support for War.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 62, no. 10 (October 2018): 2118-2149. https://t.co/BSTjLgOAbl. 10/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Recommended Readings: Marsh, Kevin. “Obama’s Surge: A Bureaucratic Politics Analysis of the Decision to Order a Troop Surge in the Afghanistan War.” Foreign Policy Analysis 10, no. 3 (July 2014): 265-288. https://t.co/YZdNJLeMOD. 9/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Obama, Barack H. “Nobel Lecture: A Just and Lasting Peace.” The Nobel Prize, December 2009. https://t.co/Dc89qMXUOp. 8/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Gates, Robert. “Afghanistan: A House Divided.” In Duty: Memories of a Secretary at War, 335-386. Knopf, 2015. 7/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Landler, Mark. “Holbrooke Agonistes.” In Alter Egos: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and the Twilight Struggle Over American Power, 75-98. Random House, 2016. 6/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Eikenberry, Karl. “The Limits of Counterinsurgency Doctrine in Afghanistan: The Other Side of the COIN.” Foreign Affairs, September/October 2013. https://t.co/vm62Cl7VED. 5/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Chollet, Derek. “Rebalance, Reset, Resurge.” In The Long Game: How Obama Defied Washington and Redefined America’s Role in the World, 51-88. New York: Public Affairs, 2016. eikenberry/the-limits-of-counterinsurgency-doctrine-in-afghanistan. 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Required Readings: Obama, Barack H. “Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation on the Way Forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan.” The White House, December 2009. 3/ https://t.co/Gj9vIL0ZWX — PolitiTweet.org

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April 22: The U.S. Decision to escalate the war in Afghanistan (2009-2010) Guest Speaker: Ambassador Karl Eikenberry 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Seeing lots of revisionist history (on left and right) on Obama's surge in Afghanistan. Im not an expert, but I did work at the WH at the time and do teach that "case" in my comparative foreign policy decision-making course. Posting that section of the syllabus here. THREAD 1/ — PolitiTweet.org

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And it is the "11th lessons learned report," not the first. — PolitiTweet.org

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Smart thread from @kharisborloff on the false analogies between Afghanistan today and Taiwan tomorrow: — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @kharisborloff: This is a bad analogy. Since this (and similar tweets from China's Global Times) are getting a lot of oxygen, let's go… — PolitiTweet.org

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@danbbaer +1. And one therefore should have a little more humility when making bold predictions, both regarding the nightmare scenarios and the more friendly scenarios, about the future. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ryanl_hass @BrookingsFP @RichardBushIII @BrookingsInst Congrats! — PolitiTweet.org

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To succeed in implementing our Plan B evacuation plan: (1) all US citizens must leave safely, (2) all Afghans now in harm's way for working with USG & US NGOs must be allowed to leave too & therefore (3) artificial deadlines for our military to leave (8/31) must be ignored. — PolitiTweet.org

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This first U.S. evacuation plan for Afghanistan failed. The only way to get beyond that tragedy is for the second plan to succeed. That is an achievable goal. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mitchellreports: .@McFaul: "...The only way to correct for that is for the second plan to succeed." (2/2) #AMRstaff — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mitchellreports: On Afghanistan, @McFaul: "No matter what your position on whether we should withdraw or not and when that decision was… — PolitiTweet.org

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Immediate Actions for the Biden Administration and World Leaders in the Afghanistan Crisis https://t.co/Zd7J7lzgKx via @wrcommission — PolitiTweet.org

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Afghanistan’s military collapse: Illicit deals and mass desertions https://t.co/QBVxfJEUPe — PolitiTweet.org

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@JRubinBlogger very useful. Thanks — PolitiTweet.org

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@mlq3 @cyberdean07 thanks — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @aahmady: 1/The collapse of the Government in Afghanistan this past week was so swift and complete - it was disorienting and difficult t… — PolitiTweet.org

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@ragehomaar Yes, that seems logical to me — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @kylegriffin1: President Biden just allocated an additional $500 million to help facilitate the relocation of Afghan refugees. — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden said yesterday, "We're also expanding refugee access to cover other vulnerable Afghans who work for our embassy. U.S. nongovernmental organizations and Afghans who otherwise are a great risk in U.S. news agencies." Very welcome news! (From transcript in NYT today) — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden said inspiringly yesterday, "human rights must be at the center of our foregin policy." He can now translate words into deeds by evacuating every Afghan who joined with the US partners to fight for human rights in Afghanistan, but now fear for their safety under the Taliban — PolitiTweet.org

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The scaremongering about Afghan refugees is not new in our history. But it is wrong. Vietnamese refugees/immigrants have made massive contributions to our society. Learn more about one great American, Jon Tien, here: https://t.co/OIg5qj4j8b — PolitiTweet.org