NFL Receiver Donte’ Stallworth’s Secret Life as a Foreign Policy Wonk
Donté Stallworth is currently a free agent who has been a wide receiver for the New Orleans Saints, Philadelphia Eagles, the New England Patriots, the Cleveland Browns, the Baltimore Ravens, and the Washington Redskins. He also has some thoughts on Iran he’d like to share: Nothing good comes away from a US/Israel war with Iran… ...
Donté Stallworth is currently a free agent who has been a wide receiver for the New Orleans Saints, Philadelphia Eagles, the New England Patriots, the Cleveland Browns, the Baltimore Ravens, and the Washington Redskins.
He also has some thoughts on Iran he'd like to share:
Nothing good comes away from a US/Israel war with Iran... Especially when you have TOP U.S. military brass saying it's, "not prudent."
Donté Stallworth is currently a free agent who has been a wide receiver for the New Orleans Saints, Philadelphia Eagles, the New England Patriots, the Cleveland Browns, the Baltimore Ravens, and the Washington Redskins.
He also has some thoughts on Iran he’d like to share:
Nothing good comes away from a US/Israel war with Iran… Especially when you have TOP U.S. military brass saying it’s, "not prudent."
— Donte’ Stallworth (@DonteStallworth) October 1, 2013
And on drones:
We (the U.S.) are setting a dangerous precedent with regard to extrajudicial and extraterritorial killings by way of #drones.
— Donte’ Stallworth (@DonteStallworth) September 26, 2013
And on Syria:
And if the war spreads beyond Syrian borders, you have Iraq, Turkey, Lebanon and Israel. #USinterestsAndAllies
— Donte’ Stallworth (@DonteStallworth) September 7, 2013
And on the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands dispute:
What’s going to be #China‘s response if Japan shoots down their surveillance drone over the East China Sea near or in Japanese territory?
— Donte’ Stallworth (@DonteStallworth) September 26, 2013
And on NSA spying:
Brazil’s Rousseff cancels U.S. visit over spying. Somewhere, someone is blaming @ggreenwald, not the spying http://t.co/7ooyrcubpa @Reuters
— Donte’ Stallworth (@DonteStallworth) September 17, 2013
He’s buds with Jeremy Scahill:
With my bro @jeremyscahill after his premiere in Chicago for @DirtyWars pic.twitter.com/e4MitGwKbn
— Donte’ Stallworth (@DonteStallworth) June 15, 2013
And FP‘s Middle East Editor David Kenner:
Thanks, @DavidKenner. Your tweets are helping to keep me up to speed on #Syria.
— Donte’ Stallworth (@DonteStallworth) August 28, 2013
And he sometimes tweets our stuff!
Lest we forget ???? RT @lukelex: Have you seen this FP article? http://t.co/mxIhZF2qNp Story barley being covered by major US media
— Donte’ Stallworth (@DonteStallworth) August 27, 2013
We could go on — on topics ranging from nuclear nonproliferation to Israeli-Palestinian peace. Hey, @DonteStallworth, if the free agent thing doesn’t work out, how about coming to work for us….
Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer is the Europe editor at Foreign Policy. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and Forbes, among other places. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and master’s degrees from Peking University and the London School of Economics. The P.Q. stands for Ping-Quon.
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