But the previous job in U.S. diplomacy might be a bit uncomfortable for me too.

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I don’t think #Hamas friendlies are playing as useful a role as they could. We hold the guns of Israel. Those H-friends hold the cash flow of Hamas. That team needs to be doing the same day-to-day work.

I think a lot of foreign policy ideas about how things work - they’re a bit too grand. Peace processes are daily grinds.

In a group of scholars whose research theme is basically “fascinating and sad” — seems like this event is totally for us!

What does a DEI award mean, depending on which agency gives it. And what demographic changes can be expected or faked as a result of such standards bodies?

It’s a whole industrial field that even has a field of rating agencies or standards-setting bodies who nobody is really watchdogging. That’s what I’d plan out as a second program of scholarship.

This POTUS is very Catholic, but even he can’t be out in these streets making ORIGINAL SIN (of occupation) to the Israelis. Folks, the whole point of diplomacy is to influence the behavior of another country’s leaders. You try serving that message to Bibi (who nobody trusts, but he’s in charge).

AND NONE OF THE HUGGING MIGHT WORK. It is worth a try anyway. I’m wrong if USA naval assets are used for BROAD bombing (rather than used to NARROW to targets to reduce civilian casualties). #Falsifiable

So why all the naval activity? I wish I had a gif of that scene in the film #ThirteenDays. Cuban missile crisis stuff. You move ships to speak a geo-political language to anyone who MIGHT do weird shit right now. That region has some folks who get tempted to do weird shit.

Beyond hugging, keep in mind that Biden is horny for DRONES - not occupations. Didn’t we just finish a bunch of press criticism about him being insufficiently pro-occupation in Afghanistan?