Establishment counterterror analyst Max Abrahms once agreed to debate me on the question of whether or not the Islamic State is Islamic, but then lost his nerve and backed out, leaving behind a smokescreen of ad hominem attacks to mask his cowardice. And here we see how he would have fared if that debate had […]
CFR “expert” Max Abrahms: “When you remove a leader of a terrorist group, lower level members rise to the top”
“When you remove a leader of a terrorist group, lower level members rise to the top.” No kidding, really? When a leader of a jihad group is killed, he is replaced? How many years of research and analysis did it take, and how many degrees did he have to attain, for this genius to arrive […]
CFR “terrorism theorist” Max Abrahms hits Trump for not distinguishing “law-abiding” Muslims from terrorists
Max Abrahms, who describes himself as “#Terrorism Theorist / Northeastern Prof / Council on Foreign Relations / Center for Cyber & Homeland Security,” is the quintessential establishment foreign policy analyst, a hack fronting policies that have failed again and again and again, and that Abrahms, and the establishment in general, don’t even realize have failed. […]
CFR’s Max Abrahms claims Syrian jihad groups growing because they’re moderate
Max Abrahms, “#Terrorism Theorist / Northeastern Prof / Council on Foreign Relations / Center for Cyber & Homeland Security,” is the very epitome of the vacuous contemporary intellectual, thumping his chest about his “research” and “scholarship” but unwilling and unable to defend them in a public forum, and retailing absurd and defeatist views that appeal […]
“Terrorism theorist” Max Abrahms: Don’t kill jihad leaders, it just makes jihadis mad
Establishment counterterror analyst Max Abrahms, who recently revealed himself to be yet another in a seemingly endless series of arrogant pseudo-academic puffballs (a series that also includes Joseph Lumbard, Mia Bloom, Christine Fair, Omid Safi, and of course, Reza Aslan), reaches a new low in this Wall Street Journal piece featuring a gaggle of establishment […]
“Terrorism theorist” Max Abrahms challenges Robert Spencer to debate, then loses nerve and cool
Max Abrahms gives his capsule resume on Twitter: “#Terrorism Theorist / Northeastern Prof / Council on Foreign Relations / Center for Cyber & Homeland Security.” He is just another establishment counter-terror analyst, purveying the same old failed policies: “My recommendation to all Western governments is to make the Muslim community feel at home because discrimination […]