“Michael Rubin, a Middle East expert”
This is the expert who is quoted for most of the comments in the article. He attacks Trumps choices.
Does anybody know who he is and why he is considered an expert?
The usual. Ivy League, CFR, teaches military bigwigs about the Middle East for DoD. American enterprise Institute.
http://www.aei.org/scholar/michael-rubin/
Between 2004 and 2009, he was editor of the Middle East Quarterly. He has received fellowships from the Council on Foreign Relations
and the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.
Rubin has lectured in history at Yale University, Hebrew University, Johns Hopkins University, and worked as visiting lecturer at Universities of Sulaymaniyah, Salahuddin, and Duhok, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.