Alastair Crooke
Director of Conflicts Forum; Former Senior British Diplomat; Author.
Exchange of Smart Narrative Missiles Vaporizes Criticism
Narratives have become smart cruise missiles: Say ‘Iran is not a threat to America’; Say ‘the US should stop taking instructions from AIPAC’ – and a narrative missile will fall from the sky, vaporizing you.
Today’s Taliban May Be Truly ‘New’, and the Shift Could Transform the Middle East
Most significantly, rather than having a tunnel vision limited to the narrow territory of Kandahar, the new young Taliban leaders want to play the strategic ‘Great Game’.
The Shackle of Western Non-meaningful Narrative
Biden's narratives will remain as fantasies, which cannot be acted out in reality. That is to say, they cannot be acted out without starting a major Middle East war – one that would threaten the very existence of 'Israel'.
Catch 22 in Vienna for Biden
All of this resounding narrative issuing out of Washington may play well at home, to smother hawkish criticism there of Biden's ‘weakness’, but essentially it is hollow.