Omri   Ceren

Omri Ceren

Omri Ceren is a PhD candidate studying Rhetoric at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication. He lives in downtown Los Angeles and blogs at Mere Rhetoric.
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WikiLeaks State Dept. Cables: The Animated Version

An accurate dramatization, per State Department cables published by Wikileaks, of how the Obama White House conducts its Middle East diplomacy. It’s not exactly like this, but it’s pretty much exactly like this, ya know? embedded by Embedded Video You’ll be glad to know that the Guardian put together a roundtable of anti-Israel Middle East experts who [...]
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Wikileaks: Anti-Israel Foreign Policy Experts Got Saudi Arabia, Other Arab Countries 100% Backward On Iran Attack

It didn’t get nearly as much play as it should have, but Obama’s June 2009 meeting with Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah ended with the monarch flying into a tirade and more or less telling the President to get a grip. This was the Riyadh meeting that Obama took on his way to his insulting and [...]
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Insanity Defined: Consistency in Errant Foreign Policy is No Virtue

Say what you will about our foreign policy pseudo-sophisticates, but when they commit to counterproductive policies grounded in incoherent assumptions, they stay committed. Whether they’re pushing public diplomacy apology tours to the Muslim world to “spread the truth about American values” or pimping concessions to Iran to split Khamenei from the hardliners, never are repeated failures [...]
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Did Lebanon Use American Weapons to Attack Israel?

Say what you will about our foreign policy pseudo-sophisticates, but when they commit to counterproductive policies grounded in incoherent assumptions, they stay committed. Whether they’re pushing public diplomacy apology tours to the Muslim world to “spread the truth about American values” or pimping concessions to Iran to split Khamenei from the hardliners, never are repeated failures [...]
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