Epstein Secrets

heir bottom line: Start transferring responsibility for the war to where it practically and ultimately belongs, to the Afghans. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hasn't settled on a formula but tends to share Pentagon concerns about withdrawing too quickly and reopening doors for a Taliban surge. She is like

tely belongs, to the Afghans. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hasn't settled on a formula but tends to

Senior Policy Analyst in European Affairs in the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, a division of the Kathryn and

re has been a synergy between president and people, a mutually reinforcing feedback loop. This, too, is not surprising. Obama ran and defeated both Hillary Clinton and John McCain as the anti-Iraq candidate. He then made rolling back the "tide of war" the core of his identity as president. The explicit rationa

, is not surprising. Obama ran and defeated both Hillary Clinton and John McCain as the anti-Iraq candidat

t both a resurgent Germany and the Soviets in the late 1940s. This was the America whose movie-actor president Helmut Kohl, Francois Mitterrand and Margaret Thatcher looked to for trans-Atlantic solidarity, and to whom Polish workers and Soviet dissidents turned for hope and inspiration. This was the America tha

lars to Dem- ocratic Party candidates and organizations, including Sen. John Kerry's presidential bid, and the Senate campaigns of Joe Lieberman, Hillary Clin- ton, Christopher Dodd and Charles Schumer. Goldberger is one of five attorneys Epstein has re- tained since he became the subject of an inv

d, that is. They actually all loved each other and got along. The only other one I know that's as close are the Somersets. Ian Gilmour dancing with Margaret Thatcher back in 1981 is a picture that will always remain in my mind. There was no love lost between them but I never heard either say something scurrilous

nce. Assad will need to act quickly and decisively -- and one hopes not harshly -- to quell the rising current of dissent. Indeed, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton seemed to offer the regime some modest support this weekend, noting that she believed Bashar to be a "reformer." But reform has never been a primary

West - mainly the Anglo-American part of it - had recovered some of its pride and nerve under U.S. President Ronald Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. And there was the growing evidence of post-colonial regimes' failure, violence and corruption, especially in Africa. But the decisive event for the