American Enterprise Institute

The missing piece in Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ Iran campaign

2019-06-02

Washington should use its military soft-power to help Iranians and further drive a wedge between Iranians and the IRGC as well as isolate the IRGC ideologues within the system.

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Iraq’s election may have had widespread voter fraud

2018-05-28

It is a truism that Iraqis disappointed in their results often imagine cheating rather than acknowledge their own failures to appeal to a broader electorate

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Yes, Turkey has definitely become a rogue regime

2018-03-26

Under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey has turn toward terrorism is well established

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In Afrin, Turkey seeks ethnic cleansing, not terror eradication

2018-02-13

Today the United States and YPG have become partners. What happened?

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Iran: Why has Qatar Approached Us?

2017-07-17

fear of Saudi Arabia drove recent Qatari policy and emphasizes the importance of the Qatari-Saudi border dispute

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Independent Kurdistan would be a failed state

2017-07-04

it is time to recognize that the forced inclusion of the Kurds in Iraq has not worked for us or for the Iraqis

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How does ISIS do intelligence?

2016-12-07

Even if Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s caliphate ends, he has already laid the groundwork for its successors

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Is a bankrupt Saudi Arabia a good thing?

2016-10-02

This is what the Saudis have done with Wahhabism. The oil money has enabled them to spread this fanatical, destructive form of Islam all over the Muslim world and among Muslims in the west

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ISIS win-win propaganda

2016-10-02

A showdown on ground so symbolic to Islamists might actually play in favor of those opposed to the vision espoused by radical Islamists

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Was Sykes-Picot a bad thing?

2016-05-08

Sykes-Picot was a blessing for many in the Middle East. There is no way to divide borders and create homogeneous states

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