Epstein Secrets

that American democracy is for sale and that the rich have more power than the poor, even as lobbyists

expansion of NATO and other measures that would take advantage of Russia's weakness. Nor was it wise to humiliate even a powerful adversary. When George Shultz, President Ronald Reagan's secretary of state, asked Mr. Kennan how to approach the new Kremlin leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the former diplomat r

ment that launched “global zero” appeared in the Wall Street Journal on January 4, 2007, under the title “A World Free of Nuclear Weapons.” Signed by George Shultz, Henry Kissinger, William Perry, Sam Nunn, and others, it was the product of a conference at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in October

ed in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Rich in unintended consequences, Atoms for Peace promi

of powerful figures in his Alawite community, of rich Sunni merchants of Damascus traditionally allied

lackBerry), and offers continuity with Condi Rice’s policy on aids and Africa. But she might most resemble Ronald Reagan’s second secretary of state, George Shultz, a canny pragmatist who made significant progress in several areas without being associated with a single momentous event. Shultz was known for valui