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Barbara A. Leaf
@SafiraLeaf
Senior Fellow The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Fmr US Amb to the UAE; with views on everything under the Middle Eastern sun. Russia, too.
Dec 9, 2020 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
There's everything -- well not quite everything -- I admire about Michele Flournoy in this statement. Like many people (not just women), I had hoped she would be the nominee. 1/ Flournoy is a true defense intellectual -- but not only/merely. She's also been a tested and trusted policy leader, a mentor to hundreds of rising natsec/defense stars, an inclusive leader of men and women, and above all, someone who has applied rigor to decision-making 2/
Jan 5, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Verified. But the hot potatoes are being traded back and forth between the Iraqi parliament and acting PM. 1/ The Council of Reps (minus the Kurds and most Sunni MPs) have passed a “sense of the Senate” style motion. Not binding on the Exec. But the Acting Exec led with an exhortation to end the US mil presence, 2/
Oct 11, 2019 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
A very tough day, bookmarked in the morning by #AmbMashaYovanovitch's searing testimony before House Committees detailing the intrusion of corrupt American and foreign actors into matters of US national security, and 1/ in the afternoon, a teleconference with #SDF commander Gen Mazloum, fresh from the front, detailing the terrible real-time consequences in every direction triggered by the President's peremptory decision to pull back US forces in NE Syria, 2/