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… ...

By , the Europe editor at Foreign Policy from 2015-2017.
NFL via Getty Images
NFL via Getty Images
NFL via Getty Images

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.

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:

And on drones:

And on Syria:

 

And on the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands dispute:

 

And on NSA spying:

He’s buds with Jeremy Scahill:

And FP‘s Middle East Editor David Kenner:

 

And he sometimes tweets our stuff!

 

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 was the Europe editor at Foreign Policy from 2015-2017. Twitter: @APQW

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