Epstein Secrets

d Bank. It was a justifiable move, given America's difficulties in holding onto the bank's presidency. But it would also have removed Rice, perhaps Clinton's likeliest successor at this point, from the race. Hadley is taking the route above party politics. He's serving on Clinton's policy advisory boar

ruption and their own dwindling perks. Only in Iraq, untouched by the Arab Spring, does the strongman of yesteryear in the person of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki seem to live on, though in a much more constrained form. So what are the consequences of an Arab world bereft of powerful authoritarians? Four sta

e the last election because of his wealth. Hispanics and Asians did not vote against him in record numbers because he was a successful businessman. Clinton's great challenge will be to decide whether she represents change or continuity. Clinton will make history in a big and dramatic way if she is elec

ir less experienced allies, who are now decamping for home. Since late December, Shia militiamen have returned to Iraq to defend the government of Nouri al-Maliki against the ISIS-led insurgency in the country's west. Given the lightening-speed advance of ISIS this month, threats to destroy Shia holy sites, a

the defining differences between him and Hillary Clinton. And even among those in Congress there was disa

irmation votes. And what of Iraq today? As it turns out, it's one of the closest allies of Iran. Just last week, it was reported that Iraqi Premier Nouri al-Maliki has turned down the U.S. demand for sanctions against Iran Page 14 of S EFTA00615166 for its nuclear program. Iraq also just approved the buildin

o the rebels — Secretary of State Hilla=y Rodham Clinton, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, CIA Director Dav

l against an Alawite minority, has been a boon t= the Sunnis of Iraq. The Sunnis have bottomless grievances against the gov=rnment of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. To them, Maliki, who spent a qua=ter-century exiled in Syria and Iran, is an agent of the Iranian theocracy. So even though the regime in S=ria di

ng. Even former Secretary of S=ate Hillary Rodham Clinton, who voted for the 2003 invasion as a senator bu

http://topics.wsj.com/person/O/Obama/4328> administration. The U.S. is weighing more direct military assis=ance to the government of Iraqi President Nouri al-Maliki, the White House said Thursday, and officials hinted that =id might include airstrikes on militants who have edged to within a half-h=ur's drive of

h the U.S. Supreme Court. The case—Zivotofsky v. Clinton, brought by the parents of Menachem Binyamin Ziv

bal barbecuing by congressional committees on national television; and endless, painstaking parleys with prickly, unpredictable characters such as Nouri al-Maliki and Hamid Karzai. He's 62; he tried to retire once, after Iraq, but was coaxed back into service by Obama and Petraeus after U.S. relations with Ka