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Will America ever have another truly great President? Probably not. Greatness requires 3Cs— crisis; character; capacity. A rare combo. nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…
Aaron David Miller
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Aaron David Miller
@aarondmiller2
Senior fellow @CarnegieEndow and host of #CarnegieConnects. Former State Dept. analyst, adviser, negotiator in Republican and Democratic Administrations.
Washington, DC
Joined February 2011
- Monday will be 5 months since Jamal Khashoggi walked into Saudi consulate in Istanbul to a cruel and horrible death. Still no accounting or accountability from Saudi Arabia or the White House. Just the cruel and seemingly unending reality of business as usual.
- Having had honor to work for six, I can say w/o hesitation or reservation Pompeo is worst SecState in history of our Republic. A man who hasn’t a single enduring diplomatic success and now slavishly follows Trump down rabbit hole of a faux second Administration. The shame of it.
- Bernie Sanders main contribution tonight was to help make Biden look like a president. The contrast between leader and ideologue is stunning.
- Having served at State for 25 yrs under R/Ds, Trump's defense of Putin over expelled US diplomats one of most shameful of his presidency
- 8 months after Jamal Khashoggi walked into Saudi consulate to a horrific death at hands of MBS, there’s still no accounting or accountability. Yesterday Trump Adm normalized its relations w/Saudi Arabia by using a manufactured crisis w/Iran to sell arms to Khashoggi’s killers.
- In barring Omar and Tlaib Netanyahu in a single act creates more publicity and political oxygen than any visit might have; makes an Israeli PM appear to be a tool of a US President; blackens Israel’s image; and erodes bipartisanship critical to US-Israeli relations
- Here’s where Trump’s incessant lying hurts America. If he takes the country to war, Americans and their allies need to believe he’s telling the truth about the reasons and justification, particularly after Iraq. Would you?
- Worked at State for almost 25 years. Never thought I’d see SecState and Department bend in face of political pressure to shill for White House. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
- Fair or not there won’t be a human on the planet who will understand at a moment when Ds control WH and Congress why they weren’t able to produce real deliverables for American people. What’s at stake now is Ds very capacity to govern.
- Biden breaking out of a weakness narrative — hitting al-Zawahiri; adept alliance management in Ukraine; significant climate package; significant gun control measures in decades. May not help in mids. But welcome moment for a president presiding over a deeply polarized nation.
- Trump, Kushners returning to New York evokes Fitzgerald on Buchanans in Gatsby. “They were careless people...they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated into their money or vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together leaving others to clean up mess.”
- It looks very much like Israel/UAE worried about alienating Russia are hedging in their response to Putin's aggression in Ukraine. This is a key moment for Biden. Forget UAE for a minute. Israel is America's closest Middle East ally. Biden shld expect Bennett to act like it.
- Lindsay and I just finished a drive through downtown DC. It’s calm but sad and terrifying. Every Republican in Congress who enabled and supported Trump ought to take the tour to see again — if they didn’t get message on Jan. 6 - what they have helped create.
