This is a risk-averse president who sets red lines he doesn’t enforce, there’s not a lot of inclination for heroic initiatives in what’s left. Aaron David Miller More Quotes by Aaron David Miller More Quotes From Aaron David Miller Whatever the aspirations on the campaign trail, they have given way to the realities of what it takes to conduct American foreign policy in a cruel and unforgiving world, the way this administration does business is highly unorthodox in so many respects. Aaron David Miller politics It’s a perfect storm of isolationism, muscular nationalism, with a dash of pragmatism and realism. Aaron David Miller politics He is idiosyncratically different from any candidate seeking the Republican or Democratic nomination when it comes to how he talks about Israel. Aaron David Miller politics It is a long war and you we have just seen maybe a very significant turn and escalation in that war, we haven't yet found a way -- and I think it's going to be extremely difficult to hermetically seal the nation, abroad or here at home, against these kinds of attacks. Aaron David Miller politics He is going to be hammered -- and he already is on the campaign trail by Republicans who argue, 'See, Mr. President, you identified this as a JV organization, you are risk averse. What if this had been an American aircraft? Aaron David Miller politics How does a presidential aspirant like Joe Biden reach for a bold American foreign policy without fundamentally distancing himself from his boss? It’s tough. Aaron David Miller politics She can't walk away from this even if she wants to. Aaron David Miller top-news The real deal here is not desperation. It's imprecision and a rush to conclude an agreement that will essentially leave too much ambiguity, and not the creative kind. Aaron David Miller top-news I don't see the coalition fundamentally altering what is already an extremely tense and corrosive relationship between the prime minster and the president. Aaron David Miller politics They clearly disapprove of this, you would think that the more appropriate comment would have been: 'We don't think this is helpful.'. Aaron David Miller top-news The Russians know, and so do the Israelis, that Iran has sort of been kosherized by the fact that it's in the negotiating process. Aaron David Miller top-news Let’s not forget the U.S. needs every friend it has in the Middle East. Aaron David Miller top-news The meetings may run better, the process may run better, but the fundamental challenges to the policy remain the same no matter who sits at the top of the Pentagon, nATURAL TENSION. Aaron David Miller top-news You have a dysfunctional relationship between Netanyahu and Obama. Aaron David Miller world But what do they amount to? It is confined and contained to a soap opera-like exchange that never leads to anything of consequence. Aaron David Miller world
