Epstein Secrets

f appeasement and weakness, from President Richard EFTA00718105 Nixon's realignment with China, to Ronald Reagan's arms control negotiations with the Soviet Union. Both Thucydides and Lippmann were pessimistic about democracy, believing that it needed elite guardians to steady the ship. But one need not rejec

es Trap 2.0: Superpower Suicide? Patrick Porter' Article 6. The Washington Post Why the United States shouldn't support Egypt's ruling generals Robert Kagan Article 7. NYT Why Economics Failed Paul Krugman Article 8. The Washington Post How U.S. billionaire Sheldon Adelson is buying up Israel's me

n of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Obama's chief military adviser says, "The US military will be obliged to overtly confront China as it faced down the Soviet Union." By 2020, the Pentagon intends to station roughly 60 percent of its naval military forces in the Pacific, including six aircraft carriers and nume

larities between China's current situation and the international stage prior to the outbreak of World War I for years. American political scientist Robert Kagan says that Washington has taken on the role of the British Empire in East Asia, and the US must make it clear to Beijing -- "which is the Germany of

of Armageddon concentrated minds and helped prevent (or at least postpone) its occurrence. Credit for the Long Peace, therefore, belongs as much to the Soviet Union as to the United States—and perhaps to the nuclear scientists on both sides who so diligently built up their deadly arsenals. Kagan's corollary, t

e 7. Harper's Magazine A pundit's rosy view of the Pax Americana Andrew, Bacc\ ich EFTA_R1_02208914 EFTA02723133 The World America Made, by Robert Kagan. Alfred A. Knopf 149 pages. $21. Call it a hallowed tradition. To invest their views with greater authority, big thinkers-especially those given to