Epstein Secrets

negade dictators like Saddam Hussein or Slobodan Milosevic. After 9/11, the U.S. declared a "war on terror" and led an international effort to stop Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and Islamist jihadists. Despite the occasional mishaps, setbacks, and errant strategies, U.S. leadership nonetheless ensured worldwide f

a deal that leads to peace, they think this leads to Iranian domination of the Gulf," said Jon Alterman, the director of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "To their minds it doesn't do anything about Iranian ambitions, it just takes the United States out of the equation as a

history is written, often with incomplete information and uncertain odds. (Imagine perceptions of Obama's foreign policy credentials if the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound had failed, as it easily could have.) At times we truly face no-win situations. Syria, no matter what the United States does, will have a

rsecurity rushed to fill in the blanks. "His speech laid the dots alongside each other without connecting them," James A. Lewis, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, wrote Friday in an essay for ForeignPolicy.com. "Iran has discovered a new way to harass much sooner than expected, and

ek echoed with vague slogans about "American leadership" and Obama's "weakness." This week, expect to hear lots from Charlotte about the killing of Osama bin Laden and the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. That doesn't mean, as some in the foreign policy world like to argue, that this presidential election

elegraphed to the Iranians. "The United States does not have to threaten preventive strikes," Anthony H. Cordesman, a longtime military analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, wrote in a recent paper, "Iran: Preventing War by Making It Credible." "It simply has to make its capabilities clear in