Michael Rubin

MICHAEL RUBIN, Resident Scholar at AEI and author of “Dancing with the Devil: The Perils of Engaging Rogue Regimes”:

PART ONE:

• Calibrating the Obama foreign policy doctrine into the realties of today’s threats
• Obama's remarks on Iran in the State of the Union address
• Will Obama's lasting legacy be the enabling and emboldening of dangerous rogue states?

PART TWO:

• Iranian rhetoric towards the United States, the Islamic Republic’s defense interests, and the destruction of Israel
• The Iranian Revolution Guard's methods of exporting revolution
• Iranian and Hezbollah agents killed in Golan Heights, Syria
• Evidence of Iranian cyber intrusion in the U.S. electric grid and other important control systems

PART THREE:

• The Islamic State's dependency on Turkey
• How Islamist groups feed into each other via Osama bin Laden's "strong horse"
• Islamic terrorism's roots in religious interpretation
• Evidence that Turkey has probably been sponsoring Boko Haram as well as the Islamic State

PART FOUR:

• Nefarious activities of the Saudi government and royal family
• Jordan and the UAE's condemnation of the Muslim Brotherhood and its affiliates
• King Abdullah II's unpopularity in Jordan
• Accusations that the Obama administration is appeasing dictators and harming relationships with Israel, Colombia, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan