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Sometimes 140 characters is all you need.

That’s all Georgetown Law professor, Foreign Policy magazine columnist and former Obama administration official Rosa Brooks needed Thursday to dismantle the White House’s responses to the situations in Syria, Russia and Iraq.

Short, concise, to the point.

Brooks served in the Defense Department from 2009 to 2011 as counselor to then-Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy.

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