Epstein Secrets

Russian perspective they were all undertaken against its strong objections, and that would not have happened in, say, the mid-seventies. President Clinton and President George W. Bush hardly even pretended to take Russia's interests, positions, or sensibilities into account, a reflection of certain ha

ld not have happened in, say, the mid-seventies. President Clinton and President George W. Bush hardly even pretend

nited States has done nothing except talk. Indeed, at first the talking appeared to be geared toward justifying an imminent military strike against Bashar Assad's assets, to degrade the Syrian president's ability to launch poison gas attacks and to deter him from resuming this form of warfare. EFTA00678418

"the jigsaw puzzle where somebody's EFTA_R1_00225773 EFTA01840717 lost the box and thrown away some of the pieces." Yet he believes that he and Clinton are now in agreement about the need for an international effort to stabilize Somalia. (As he puts it: "We could have written each other's speeches"

s efforts to stop the violence and repression in its neighbor and onetime ally Syria. Although Turkish officials have harshly criticized President Bashar Assad's response to a yearlong uprising that is increasingly taking on the character of a civil war, they have not budged the Syrian leader. And they are a

sed, that then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton facilitated without apparent qualms and that many

l planning; high-quality training, etc.); - Prevented Iran from using Iraqi land and airspace to drag Iraq into the Syrian civil war on the side of Bashar Assad's regime, with all its consequences for internal Iraqi cohesion; EFTA00706973 - Assured key regional actors that Iraq's new government would not be