Epstein Secrets

Kori Schake April 11, 2014 -- Secretary of State John Kerry's push for Middle East peace has come to this sorry impasse: The Israelis demanding the United States release a traitor before they are willing to proceed with previously agreed releases of Palestinians, and the Palestinians playing for internationa

urled in Washington. According to John McCain: "I travel all around the world and I hear unanimously that the United States is withdrawing and that the United States' influence is on the wane and that bad things are going to happen, and they are happening." The charge of retreat is a potent one. It's also a compl

s always requires judgment and strategy (or "cost- benefit" analysis, as the economists say). In the early Cold War, for example, Secretary of State Dean Acheson resolutely rejected pressure from the U.S. left to negotiate with Moscow until Washington was able to do so from "a position of strength." Acheson

and that the Americans could intimidate the Jews into co-existing with each other. Truman, however, was willing to contribute money but not troops. The United States had undergone rapid demobilization after World War II, but the Cold War had begun. By 1947, Truman and the State Department were preoccupied with h

mmission [sic] on Palestine was the correct solution, and, I think, eventually we are going to get it worked out just that way." On May 18, he told Dean Acheson, who was between jobs at the State Department, that in 1946 "we had the problem solved, but the emotional Jews of the United States and the equally

ng a central role, they are wrong. Checking proliferation will require more innovative and tighter cooperation between the agency ElBaradei loves and the United States, of which he no longer seems especially fond. Leslie H. Gelb is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, a former senior official in

r 10 days before she would go to London to arrange for the military campaign to be handled by nato. Whatever the burden-sharing logistics, the United States was in deep now, on a course that no one could predict. Madam Secretary For Barack Obama, the Arab Spring and its aftermath will shape just one crit

another 10 days before she would go to London to arrange for the military campaign to be handled by nato. Whatever the burden-sharing logistics, the United States was in deep now, on a course that no one could predict. Madam Secretary For Barack Obama, the Arab Spring and its aftermath will shape just o

mired Woman,” but being a great secretary of HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024980 --- PAGE BREAK --- 24 state requires more than energy, brains, and celebrity. Dean Acheson helped rebuild Europe after World War II. Henry Kissinger, who acted like the secretary of state for Richard Nixon even before he got the job, engine