Charles W. Dunne

Non-Resident Senior Fellow, @ArabCenterWDC. Adjunct Professor, @ElliottSchoolGW. Former diplomat, @freedomhouse MENA director. Views my own.

[Charles W. Dunne @CharlesWDunne]

And yet (in spite of? because of?) they still hired a Jan. 6 rioter to work in DOD/SOLIC (irregular warfare and counterrorism) (!!). GIGO, as they say https://t.co/4UszMvXlUR via @DefenseOne

[Charles W. Dunne @CharlesWDunne]

By the same token, maybe Israel shouldn't invade, depopulate, and destroy vast swaths of villages in Lebanon if it doesn't want...yada, yada. The circular logic of state and non-state violence is compelling and constrictive, and ever more destructive, but there are alternatives

[Ari Fleischer @AriFleischer]

If any nation ever launches attack drones and rockets into the USA, I would hope and expect the US government to defend us and pound whoever did it.

If you don’t want Israel to do the same thing, don’t attack Israel.

[Charles W. Dunne @CharlesWDunne]

Huzzah! We've now achieved a deal to end the war (maybe) that addresses, but doesn't completely resolve, the key sticking point, access/control over the Strait of Hormuz, which wasn't even an issue before the war began. American diplomacy driving full speed in reverse.

[Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC]

I am pleased to hear the memorandum of understanding with Iran to allow the Strait of Hormuz to open has been agreed to. I will be watching closely the ensuing negotiations regarding Iran’s nuclear program and other matters.

I am somewhat concerned that Iran’s view of the agreement seems different than what the American negotiating team is claiming.

Under our law, any nuclear deal with Iran will be sent to Congress for review and a vote. I look forward to reviewing the final product and I believe it is imperative that the architect of the deal, Vice President Vance and his negotiating partners, be part of the process in presenting the final deal to Congress.

Congratulations to all in getting us to this point. Time will tell.

[Arab Center Washington DC @ArabCenterDC]

Arab Center Fellow Charles W. Dunne discusses the situation in #Iran and the Gulf, as well as the pivot from military escalation toward negotiations. @CharlesWDunne

https://t.co/NkTTCJVPM2

[Charles W. Dunne @CharlesWDunne]

Another reason why the administration was so unprepared: it hollowed out the national security establishment, fired experts, placed clowns in charge at DOD and elsewhere, and Trump relied on his own gut--always wrong--and a handful of amateurs for advice. https://t.co/FHJMBLsGd2

[Charles W. Dunne @CharlesWDunne]

In addition to the fact that this clown has no evident qualifications for the job, he would never in a million years pass a background check in a Pentagon run by professionals. Of course it isn’t run by professionals; it’s run by malevolent apparatchiks https://t.co/LBas8zweFG

[Charles W. Dunne @CharlesWDunne]

I didn't think it would be possible to name a replacement for Gabbard who's worse, but by golly, Trump's done it again. https://t.co/waKzIZRF2X

[Charles W. Dunne @CharlesWDunne]

@USAmbUN And also, maybe, the Israelis should stop occupying and bombing/bulldozing 20% of Lebanon's territory to make it uninhabitable, which might help toward a solution. Include me on your next What's App call and I'll explain

[Charles W. Dunne @CharlesWDunne]

You'd think we'd work more closely with the Ukrainians, now probably the world's experts on drone warfare, rather than reinventing the wheel with a bunch of basement nerds and video gamesters, but that's not the way this clown car of a Pentagon rolls https://t.co/vHPEURB252

[Charles W. Dunne @CharlesWDunne]

Maybe he shouldn’t touch off quite so many high-stakes foreign policy crises if he finds them so boring, especially when there’s something good to watch on TV instead https://t.co/Ll9GffSWov

[Charles W. Dunne @CharlesWDunne]

I don’t know why the US and Israel have such trouble with the meaning of cease-fire. To the US, it apparently means you cease, and we’ll fire. It means something similar to Israel in Gaza, where there is not so much a cease-fire as a “cease-fire ;)” https://t.co/49j9Pt1zfz

[Charles W. Dunne @CharlesWDunne]

I don’t know why the US and Israel have such trouble with the meaning of cease-fire. To the US, it apparently means you cease, and we’ll fire. It means something similar to Israel in Gaza, where there is not so much a cease-fire as a “cease-fire ;)” https://t.co/2fvtWgCqGC

[Charles W. Dunne @CharlesWDunne]

My latest on the broken Pax Americana in the Gulf, the damage to the region, and who might gain from the present US-Iran crisis. For the @ArabCenterDC https://t.co/YhL44K1Ab5

[Charles W. Dunne @CharlesWDunne]

I do think Admiral Brad should display a little bit more concern for the hundreds if not thousands of civilians who have been killed in the war he is conducting at the Trump administration’s direction. Not a good look. https://t.co/IL8csWMjQu

[Charles W. Dunne @CharlesWDunne]

Wonder if the president will ponder the deeper meaning of the passage? Also, whatever will they do when they come to the Beatitudes? Maybe just cut that part about the “peacemakers”. And the “meek.”https://t.co/Rizet2Pk3d

[Charles W. Dunne @CharlesWDunne]

@drewidia @BishopBarron It’s actually the teachings of Jesus, but hey, you must have a different edition of the Bible.

[Charles W. Dunne @CharlesWDunne]

All that and a bag of chips. Who veers from negotiations to genocidal threats in the space of a single day, while also posting a meme likening himself to Jesus? This guy. https://t.co/3DFCsbA6Pu

[Charles W. Dunne @CharlesWDunne]

@LeadingReport Hmm. I'm wondering if Sean Hannity has read the Bible. I'm guessing not. The Beatitudes in particular

[Charles W. Dunne @CharlesWDunne]

@LeadingReport "One woe doth tread upon another's heel, / So fast they follow". I do love quoting Shakespeare. If you can't solve a problem, make it bigger. (Eisenhower) If you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there. (common sense). https://t.co/E6fsn5srT3

[Charles W. Dunne @CharlesWDunne]

Wait, what? So an American demand is Iran open the Strait of Hormuz, and the negotiation didn't go well. Meaning Iran didn't immediately agree to everything the US demanded ("our terms", as JD put it) So now WE are going to close the Strait completely? https://t.co/E6fsn5srT3