Joe Stieb
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Asst Prof of Nat Sec Affairs at US Naval War College, UNC History PhD. Hoops, running, cats. Views are mine. Celtics doomer account.
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AOC is a great case of an idealistic and charismatic young politician growing up and realizing that political performances and moral purity matter less than results and that working within the system can actually get those results.
But sorry that she’s ‘boring.’
AOC is a great case study of how DC can transform a young person with an exciting and aspirational worldview into an extremely predictable and boring politician
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I think one of the things that 10/7 showed abt academia is that we aren’t really better than ‘normal’ people. It has revealed a deep cruel streak in which ideology and identity determine who gets empathy and who doesn’t.
It’s just so easy to not say things like this.
Now revelations of torture by Hamas. She had to wash dishes. That is torture, if you ask me.
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"In a country tangling itself in knots over questions of age and mental competence in the White House, Trump somehow keeps getting a pass for saying things that are orders of magnitude more worrisome than forgetting a name or a date."
@RadioFreeTom
💯💯
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@whstancil
Whenever I read statements like this I feel like the poster is blaming Biden for not being a king.
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I don't know where to start with how bad this tweet is:
1. Trump is on record as being vehemently pro-Bibi and hostile to the Palestinians.
2. How the heck did he run "to the left" of Hillary on Iraq? He supported the Iraq War. Also, not all war opposition is "on the left" as/
I have this wild notion that Trump might conceivably run to Biden's left on Israel-Palestine in the general election, like he did with Hillary and Iraq. He's been noticeably quiet on the issue since Oct. 7.
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Fun thing: My book is now out in paperback from the Cambridge U Press website or online booksellers.
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@SenatorRomney
Thank you Mitt for calling him out specifically. That seems terribly hard for many.
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@shadihamid
Well it's not an accurate statement about liberalism in historical terms, and it's from a hyper-reactionary source, a guy who opposed both decolonization and the Civil Rights movement. He has a point, I suppose, I just wonder how you are using it or what you like about it.
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@radleybalko
Former HS teacher here: sometimes when a kid is having a bad day, it is best to leave them alone as long as they don’t disrupt others. The worst thing u can do is engage in a power struggle over *checks notes* kickball.
Kickball.
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Nah it is freakin awesome was loaded w talent and was optimistic about public service and it’s ok to not be miserable all the time.
Parks and Recreation is the single most "Obama-era" show I can think of and it'd be torn to shreds by audiences if it aired today
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This is a solid review of Coll's book by Gideon Rose, but Rose, and to a lesser extent Coll, still lean a little too hard on the "misperception" thesis of the Iraq War, with the resulting narrative of the war as a "tragedy."
Rose, for example, argues/
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The thing abt DJT is that he’s so capricious and incoherent that he will eventually take a position that sounds a little bit like the thing you want, so you can talk yourself into thinking he might be good for that thing when he won’t be.
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@ChallengeYCL
What was the best thing abt him? Idk was it the Cheka murder squads? The creation of a tyranny much deeper than the czar’s? The dictatorship? The crushing of other socialists?
Just tell us what u like abt this stuff.
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Now seems like as good a time as any to let everyone know that I've accepted a position as Assistant Professor of National Security Affairs at the
@NavalWarCollege
in Newport, RI. Super excited to be heading back to my native New England to work with outstanding colleagues/
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Unpleasant campus politics doesn't negate the threat Trump poses. That is straightforward.
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@Nate_moseby
@OfficialNBARefs
@warriorsvox
Lol I don't know about you guys but I always leap forward 8 feet on my jumper. That's why it is so pure.
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@tooforwon241
@statmuse
Like there are 16 guys averaging over 25 a game. There were 7 in 04-05.
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@rizzlerofcook
What does he do? Guys, answer or I’m gonna point at Pete again.
‘He gets into Mordor.’
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I stopped here, just could not endure:
‘A hostile military alliance, now including Sweden and Finland, is at the very borders of Russia. How are Russian leaders—whose country was almost destroyed by Western invasion twice in the 20th century—supposed to react to this?’
Urgent, necessary reading/Is NATO’s Endgame Nuclear War /?
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This idea that it’s boring to get results within the system and nudge it in the right direction shows the enduring romantic streak on the left that holds them back in so many ways from realistic political engagement.
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What dense 700-page Pulitzer Prize-winning history book should Chris Nolan adapt for film next?
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Just finished Carter Malkasian's outstanding "The American War in Afghanistan." There's a lot of great work on this conflict by people like Rashid and Coll, but I think this is the new gold standard. Attached a link to my informal review below:
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What people think the Naval War "School" is:
What 10/7 actually showed is that many of you, like this guy who teaches at the Naval War School, only support justice and liberation in the abstract, to appear “good” and “compassionate” to others
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What the heck is wrong w Snyder’s tweet?
One Yale historian retweets another Yale historian's historical nonsense. That department used to be *the* place to study history. Now it's where you go to lose your mind.
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A devastating review by
@KathaPollitt
of Judith Butler's new book.
Pollitt shows that when they (Butler uses they/them pronouns) strip the jargon and theoretical sleight-of-hand out of their writing, they don't have anything interesting to say at all.
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Idk, maybe the ones who were super pumped about paragliding Hamas murderers are radical.
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@NiranjanShan13
@ajamubaraka
One would think the Global South would be able to recognize blatant imperialist aggression.
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Because the sitting President didn’t praise them.
Why don’t these anti-Semitic mobs get the same coverage as Charlottesville? 🤔
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One of the most hilarious Twitter things is people who act like the Naval War College is this hive of imperialist warmongering.
Narrator: it isn't.
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Overjoyed to announce that my first book, "The Regime Change Consensus: Iraq in American Politics, 1990-2003," has got a cover and is coming out in June! Check the link!
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@tatefrazier
This moment really struck me, esp in comparison to Lonzo, whom Fox torched in the previous round. Zo clearly didn't care, he was like "whatever, that was my college career." Bam and Fox bleed for the game.
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A much better critique of what Israel is doing/poised to do than people hyper-ventilating about genocide and settler colonialism.
Starts w a clear denunciation of Hamas but points out excesses in Israel’s response, lack of planning for the incursion, and key moral concerns.
“The most dangerous reasoning in policy is, ‘Something must be done. This is something. Therefore it must be done,'" says
@chrislhayes
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"Yes, this campaign of bombing and maybe ground incursion into Gaza is something. But no, it does not need to be done."
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I finished
@mattdelmont
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Good line from historian John Dower about historians' roles:
“Their primary task is to use the perspective of time, together with access to previously unavailable materials, to rethink the past. In the process, historians often embrace ambiguity (including the possibility that/
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One reason why many people don’t like this kind of student protest is that it’s mostly working class people, often of color, who have to clean up the facilities and spaces they trash and graffiti.
It’s just another form of thoughtless privilege really (unless the kids will/
BREAKING:
California Polytechnic University (Humboldt) closes its campus until autumn
Anti-Israel students seized several buildings 5 days ago & hold them
There’s graffiti all over the walls & a building was renamed “Intifada Hall”
Via
@thestustustudio
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@justinamash
No mostly in the GOP. Most consequentially in the GOP. That could change, but that's the case right now.
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When I see academics out there saying the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is so simple morally and historically, it really makes me wonder how y'all teach it.
Bc I have a history Ph.D w a focus on US foreign policy in the ME, and the more I read about it the harder it becomes to/
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I asked my students what the big points of our course were today and they said:
1. There are no lessons in history.
2. Everything is multi-causal.
3. Be a historian.
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Feels cool to have my stuff referenced in this NYT article on "Why the United States Invaded Iraq."
This piece also does a solid job laying out some of the history and polisci work on this question.
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@BibsCorner
Bball breakdown frustrates the heck out of me. He loves a soft foul-baiting game and then makes all these weird comments he passes off as "insights."
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@shadihamid
Fair point but I think we all know there’s a certain absurdity about ‘peace protestors’ chanting ‘intifada, intifada.’
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This was excellent. One of my rules of thumb is always read Steve Coll. Even if you have read a lot on the Iraq War, I'd still say this is worthwhile.
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@nytdavidbrooks
My wife (a teacher) and I got COVID from her school. Luckily we are young and were ok, but still quite scary. When we say "safe" do we include the teachers?
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@Caleb_San17
the only thing that can stop a bad guy with an airplane is a good guy with an airplane
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Fellas, is holding Trump accountable for his many, many crimes "lawfare?"
Retweeting Ahmari like he's some ally of the rule of law and democracy is...something.
And the comparisons in here to McCarthyism are just inane, as are references to the "ruling-class consensus."
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Want to know why so many teachers quit?
Well when they put in dozens of hours of their own time to enriching projects like this (in this case, a classroom library to help build a reading culture), admin and politicians so often crush them for small-minded, political reasons.
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I get carried away with the quotes, but this one from JOhn Dower on historians' role is awesome:
“Their primary task is to use the perspective of time, together with access to previously unavailable materials, to rethink the past. In the process, historians often embrace/
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The hysterical style in academia strikes again.
We really are looking like chickens w our heads cut off calling THIS fascism in any respect.
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Navin Bapat, a UNC poli sci prof, once told me to never assume that you as a scholar are smarter or more insightful than the decision-makers you study.
And the more I study foreign policy, the more I agree w him. Most policy makers are well aware of these kinds of risk if not/
Honestly none of the big decision-makers in any of the major powers seem to be nearly as afraid a sane person would be about the prospect of one or more all-out wars breaking out between them.
I'd like a little more Khrushchev energy all around:
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Tested positive for Covid 3 days ago. Currently isolating, asymptomatic, feeling fine. I wore a mask everywhere, no socializing, went to a running trail and grocery store and that's it. This is personal and political for me now.
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Phil’s a great and deeply humane writer, and there’s nothing wrong with people who volunteered for Iraq and Afghanistan.
This ‘who gets to write what’ discourse is exhausting and dumb.
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I've got a review out of Mel Leffler's new Iraq book. While there are some thing to admire in it, overall it fails to A. rigorously challenge the claims of top policy-makers made in interviews and memoirs. B. Adequately contextualize the war./
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suggests. I think we made this war happen, and as people like
@stephenwertheim
have argued, it should prompt deeper reflections about the U.S. role in the world.
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Got a review essay out with
@WarOnTheRocks
on Steve Coll’s excellent new book ‘The Achilles’ Trap.’
In this review, I assess the limits of the ‘misperception’ thesis on the Iraq War, which treats the war as a product of mutual misunderstandings btw/
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This isn’t the whole story, but it is definitely part of the story. There’s good polling data out there about a collapse in public trust of higher ed starting in the early 2010s. And he’s dead right that many job postings are openly ideological.
This is what we're witnessing – the dismantling of public higher ed in conservative states – and we've created the conditions for what's going on at UNC. How did anyone think we could get away with being nakedly ideological for years without any chickens coming home to roost? 1/
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Very excited that my article "The Vital Center Reborn: Redefining Liberalism between 9/11 and the Iraq War" has been published online with
@ModAmHist
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@arakeys
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Yup, that’s the Quincy Institute giving a platform to JD Vance, arguably the most unprincipled charlatan in politics today.
.
@JDVance1
makes case against proxy wars in Ukraine, Middle East, opens our
@QuincyInst
@amconmag
conference this morning! LIVE:
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Just finished this outstanding book by
@stuartareid
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Finally feel like I have a good grasp of this chapter of the Cold War and decolonization. Vivid writing and a careful attention to the agency of all actors mark this excellent book. Highly recommended!
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For the evening crowd: a cautionary argument about the perils of lesson-learning for strategists.
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I can’t explain why I would watch 3 spinoff movies about this guy from Sicario but I would.
watching Sicario for the first time and its resplendent with so many distinct vibes but chief among them is it absolutely nails the "I have personally killed hundreds of people for the US government" phenotype
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normie establishment Dems and that maybe he will shake things up or heighten the contradiction or whatever.
He won't. He will make every situation and issue the left/liberals care about worse while fundamentally assaulting democracy and the Constitution. Period.
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there are deeply rooted right-leaning traditions of restraint in realism and nationalism (think Walter Russell Mead's Jeffersonians).
3. I think this speaks to a continuing delusion on some of the Left that Trump isn't as bad as the libs think and that the real enemy is the/
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Same energy:
You’ll miss what’s happening if you miss that this is primarily about imperialism, structural racism & white settler colonialism
It’s about that more than it is about Judaism, Islam or Jews & Arabs
This is about the ruling white elite needing a colony where Israel is located
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Just finished listening to
@ronenbergman
’s outstanding book on Israel’s targeted assassination program thru history. It is simply one of the 4 or 5 best non fiction books I have encountered in the last five years. Engrossing, balanced, exhaustive, and morally compelling.
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I've got a new piece out with
@WarOnTheRocks
arguing that the point of history is not "lesson-learning," which can actually be counter-productive in a number of ways.
I'm specifically thinking of PME institutions where lessons are often seen as the/
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We set the conditions for new enemies to emerge and then defeated some of them, lost 4k people, got bogged down, empowered our main strategic adversary in the region, contributed to a larger regional destabilization, all to remove a regime that was weak and not threatening us
The Iraq War was a terrible thing to do, and we shouldn't have done it, but the U.S. absolutely won that war. We smashed all enemies, pacified the country, installed a proxy government, and then dumped the responsibility for day-to-day security in Iran's lap
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Can you really call yourself a historian when you rip Lincoln quotes out of context, ignore his well documented evolution on race, and grossly compare him to the radically racist Confederacy to make a tendentious political argument?
It makes sense that Republicans today self-identify as the party of Abraham Lincoln while defending the statues of Confederate leaders and attacking antiracism. While Lincoln and Confederate leaders disagreed on extending slavery, they agreed on the preservation of racism. 1/6
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