Epstein Secrets

dministrations, Gates gets credit for stabilizing Iraq, though the key decisions that led to success--a surge of troops and the appointment of Gen. David Petraeus to oversee the strategy--predated his arrival. Petraeus says Gates knew that his real contribution was to buy time in Washington for the strategy t

In "Two Concepts of Liberty," Berlin allows that "First things come first: there are situations . . . in which boots are superior to the works of Shakespeare, individual freedom is not everyone's primary need." Further complicating matters, Berlin notes that "there is no necessary connection between indi

ENTCOM's opportunity to work with our regional partners and to support multilateral security efforts." One year earlier, Mattis' predecessor, Gen. David Petraeus, made a similar point, saying, "The enduring hostilities between Israel and some of its neighbors present distinct challenges to our ability to adv

t to mention some of Nirenberg's most striking chapters, including one on the role of Judaism in early Islam and one devoted to a close reading of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. Nirenberg has a sure grasp of a huge variety of historical and intellectual contexts, and, unlike many historians, he is

dn’t much hide his contempt for the Power-Point general. Bannon and the president enjoyed trash-talking McMaster together. McMaster was a protégé of David Petraeus, the former CENTCOM and Afghanistan commander who became Obama’s CIA director before resigning in a scandal involving a love affair and the mishandli

etainers looking to save their own skins, the staffers who Trump had rewarded with the back of his hand— it all threatened, in Bannon’s view, to make Shakespeare look like Dr. Seuss. Everyone waited for the dominoes to fall, and to see how the president, in his fury, might react and change the game again. 7

administrations, Gates gets credit for stabilizing Iraq, though the key decisions that led to success--a surge of troops and the appointment of Gen. David Petraeus to oversee the strategy--predated his arrival. Petraeus says Gates knew that his real contribution was to buy time in Washington for the strategy to

ress." In "Two Concepts of Liberty," Berlin allows that "First things come first: there are situations... in which boots are superior to the works of Shakespeare, individual freedom is not everyone's primary need." Further complicating matters, Berlin notes that "there is no necessary connection between indivi