Epstein Secrets

orce is a crude instrument whose effects are hard to foresee and one which almost always produces unintended consequences (see under: Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan, etc.). So it was in Iraq, and the results of a direct military conflict with Iran would be equally unpredictable. Moreover, neocons beli

emocratic growth in the West itself. In fact, the development of liberal democracy was a long, contentious, imperfect, and often violent process in Western Europe and North America, and anyone familiar with that history would have known the neocons' formula for democratic change was doomed from the start. EFT

tates in areas of marginal strategic importance, such as Vietnam. In the post-Cold War era, Mr. Kennan criticized military interventions in Panama, Somalia and Iraq as a waste of scarce resources. Policing the globe exacerbated resentment abroad while neglecting the decaying infrastructure at home. Try

. In 1946-47, Mr. Kennan laid out his containment policy, intending to limit its application to the major power centers of the world, particularly Western Europe and Japan. He grew horrified as containment exploded into a global venture miring the United States in areas of marginal strategic importance, such

t," he added. "If Islamists can deliver on that, they'll succeed. If not, they'll be voted out in the next election. We're not going to end up like Somalia." Some Salafi leaders have made extremist statements - suggesting that women and Christians are unfit to be leaders, raising questions about the p

tary and economic force 200 years ago, the tide has turned decisively. The rise of China and India, the relative decline of the US and the fall of Western Europe will establish a new world order. For India, the next few years present great challenges but even greater opportunities. The defining relationship

own terrorist who after go=ng abroad where they were proselytized and trained radical clerics and seasone= harden fighter in Syria, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Herein lies the dilemma of how should governments dea= with returning jihadists if they want to prevent more acts like t

in the march in Paris last week and other sympathetic events around the world. Concurrent=y it is evident that a number of these heinous events in Western Europe, North Amer=ca, Middle East and elsewhere are the acts of home grown terrorist who after go=ng abroad where they were proselytized and trained radi