Epstein Secrets

ization to expire, and, with it, the power to hold terrorist prisoners-of- war. The date should have been far in the future, fifteen years, say, lest al-Qaida have an incentive to wait out US military action." He concludes that characterizing an end date for detention "as a reassertion of Congress' consti

Lanka. The New York Times (7/8, Beech, 18.61M) reports on "the rise of militant Buddhism" in the wake of "ethnic cleansing" of Buddhist Rohingya in Burma and ongoing violence in Sri Lanka. The Times says "some Buddhists, especially those who subscribe to the purist Theravada strain of the faith, are

nst his own people and remain almost indifferent to the same crimes EFTA00660824 when committed by Bashar al-Assad in Syria? Why knock off a dozen al Qaeda terrorists from the air, and release another group from Guantanamo? The answer, of course, is politics. Politics matters to any sane politician; bu

in East Asia. The opening of a new base in Australia is a powerful symbol of America's enduring strategic presence in the region. The opening with Burma obviously has both strategic motives and strategic implications. He also has a fairly good record in responding to the Arab Awakening. The Obama a

stubborn refusal to act has EFTA_R1_00440983 EFTA01964307 facilitated the emergence of the largest and potentially most dangerous incarnation of al-Oaeda since pre-2001 Afghanistan. Between them, Egypt and Syria prevent most people from thinking much about Yemen — except when an al-Qaeda plot to tak

ation to choose words, and policies, according to their consequences, not according to some abstract moral scale. If praising dictators in Sudan or Burma, as the administration did at times, encouraged them to reconcile with their rivals, then they should be praised. Cutting ties to demonstrate the p