Epstein Secrets

specting Your Defender Gershom Gorenberg March 24, 2014 -- Moshe Ya'alon thinks that President Barack Obama is a wimp and that Secretary of State John Kerry is mentally incompetent. If Ya'alon were a GOP senator, this wouldn't be worthy of comment. He'd be doing what has come to be the job of Republican

r charm offensive. In January, the mass-circulation daily Yediot Aharonot published leaks from conversations in which the defense minister attacked Kerry's efforts to negotiate a two-state agreement in general, and in particular his proposal for security arrangements between Israel and the Palestinia

vance is somewhat the same. But another leader may not have fanned either one. A non-Putin, in fact, may not have felt either emotion so intensely. Dmitry Medvedev, the former Russian president and now the prime minister, probably would not have seized Crimea. Nothing about him suggests otherwise. He is no Put

y citizen nearly six times, and the US has enough purchase options to vaccinate everyone nearly five times, leaving much of the world scrambling." Kerry Plans For US To Resume Leadership Role Against Climate Change. The AP (1/26, Knickmeyer) reports climate envoy John Kerry "is talking the U.S. back

uch of the world scrambling." Kerry Plans For US To Resume Leadership Role Against Climate Change. The AP (1/26, Knickmeyer) reports climate envoy John Kerry "is talking the U.S. back into a leading role in global climate action, making clear the nation isn't just revving up its own efforts to reduce oil

completed in the coming days." The AP (1/26, Isachenkov) says the treaty, which was "signed in 2010 by President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, limits each country to no more than 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads and 700 deployed missiles and bombers, and envisages sweeping on-site inspecti

imir Putin's unreconstructed Cold War mentality in Ukraine? "We're hoping that Russia will not see this as sort of a continuation of the Cold War," John Kerry said last week. Even before the Russian invasion of Crimea, Obama was warning of the dangers of seeing the world in terms of Great Power conflict.

as sort of a continuation of the Cold War," John Kerry said last week. Even before the Russian invasion

e: The United States has left Iraq, the war in Afghanistan is ending and Osama bin Laden is dead. President Barack Obama and Russian then- President Dmitry Medvedev signed a new nuclear treaty, and the U.S. economy is on the mend. But nobody's feeling like patting themselves on the back, as this year's NSS draf

won his by nine points. In 2004, Bush beat John Kerry by just 2.5 points, the smallest margin of victo

margin of twenty-three points. In 1984, Reagan won his reelection by eighteen points. In 1992, Clinton won his by nine points. In 2004, Bush beat John Kerry by just 2.5 points, the smallest margin of victory for the reelection of a President since the nineteenth century. Obama won in 2008 by seven point

htmare hellscape as he moves further to the left." This argument is often bolstered by noting that Obama recently told the Russian Prime Minister, Dmitry Medvedev, that he would have "more flexibility" to pursue negotiations on missile defense "after my EFTA_R1_02204168 EFTA02720639 election." Ed Morrissey