March 30, 2015 by Graham E. Fuller • Blog • Tags: Al Qaeda, Graham Fuller, Houthis, I, Iran, ISIS, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Zaydi Islam •
How to Decipher Yemen, Where the Enemy of Your Enemy Is Also Your Enemy Graham E. Fuller Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/graham-e-fuller/decipher-yemen_b_6965564.html Yemen, like Afghanistan, has a long reputation as a quagmire for foreign invaders. Saudi Arabia could break its teeth there if the US does not constrain it. Astonishingly, Yemeni events have now conspired to […]
February 22, 2015 by Graham E. Fuller • Blog • Tags: American policy, extremism, Graham Fuller, ISIS, Islam, Middle East •
150222- Yes, It Is Islamic Extremism—But Why? I applaud President Obama’s efforts to avoid provoking further Islamophobia in America. But I part company with him in his well-intentioned efforts to avoid using the term “Islamic extremism.” This is not about blame, it’s about analysis. In simplest terms, right now, these particular extremist movements—ISIS, al-Qa’ida and […]
February 18, 2015 by Graham E. Fuller • Blog • Tags: Graham Fuller, ISIS, Islam, radicalism, US policy •
150218- Interpreting Islam to Muslims Can’t we ever learn? Here goes the White House again, appointing a “new” task force designed to “blunt the ISIS message.” Washington seems to believe that a main source of ISIS success to date lies in American failure to get the right word out, to tell Muslims what the true […]
February 11, 2015 by Graham E. Fuller • Blog • Tags: ISIS, Israel lobby, radical Islam, Russia, Ukraine •
150211 – Three (Encouraging) Cases of Disastrous Political Overreach There is a saying in classical Chinese: wu ji bi fan: When things reach extremes they must reverse course. That isn’t always true of course. But every once in a while, just when things seem to be getting really dark—and it especially happens in the Middle […]
January 3, 2015 by Graham E. Fuller • Blog • Tags: Afghanistan, Erdogan, Graham Fuller, Iran, Iraq, ISIS, Russia, Syria, Taliban, Turkey •
Graham Fuller’s Five Middle East Predictions for 2015 Only a fool offers longer term predictions about the Middle East. I offer the following longer terms predictions about the Middle East for 2015. 1- ISIS will decline in power and influence. I have stated earlier that I do not believe ISIS is viable as a state; […]
December 17, 2014 by Graham E. Fuller • Blog • Tags: Iraq, ISIS, Islam, Saudi Arabia, Shi'a, Sunni, Syria •
Why does ISIS hate Shi’a ? ISIS has particularly targeted Shi’a as a key part of their brutal onslaught against any practice of Islam that does not conform to their narrow ahistorical interpretation view of their religion. We hear a lot from western commentators about some “eternal split” between Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims. But does […]
December 2, 2014 by Graham E. Fuller • Blog • Tags: Asad, Iraq, ISIS, Islamist, Kurds, Muslim Brotherhood, Syria, Turkey •
141201- Making Sense of The Turkey-ISIS Mess 1 December 2014 Among the many confusing factors swirling around the whole ISIS phenomenon is the role, or roles, of Turkey in the situation. It might be helpful to tick off some of the major salient factors that compete to form Turkish policies towards ISIS under Erdoğan at […]
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Defeating ISIS by Talking to It?
July 13, 2015 by Graham E. Fuller • Blog • Tags: Fareed Zakaria, Graham Fuller, ISIS, negotiations, terrorists •
Defeating ISIS by Talking to It? Graham E. Fuller (grahamefuller.com) 13 July 2015 I can’t believe that I’ve been outflanked on the Progressive Left by Fareed Zakaria! Hints of negotiation with ISIS! http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-talking-to-terrorists-is-the-only-way-to-defeat-them/2015/07/09/c94a83c8-266f-11e5-aae2-6c4f59b050aa_story.html I’ve got a lot of respect for Zakaria—he generally works within the outer limits of the establishment envelope—just enough to nudge along […]
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