Epstein Secrets

vent the kind of chaos that followed the fall of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and EFTA00678416 Moammar Gadda

e kind of chaos that followed the fall of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and EFTA00678416 Moammar Gaddafi in Li

f the regime falls; working with reconcilable elements of the Syrian army to maintain order and prevent the kind of chaos that followed the fall of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and EFTA00678416 Moammar Gaddafi in Libya; and preventing the future use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime in a desperate last stan

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

o be excrescences of the Great Satan. But Saddam Hussein's brutal and initially successful assault on Ira

ionaries initially junked the shah's expensive armory and closed down his nuclear program, deeming both to be excrescences of the Great Satan. But Saddam Hussein's brutal and initially successful assault on Iran soon brought them back to the real world. The ayatollahs turned to those they condemned as irrevoc

ite U.S. protests, Israel remained Iran's most reliable arms supplier for much of the 1980s -- the time when the West was supporting In the 1980s, Saddam's chemical warfare against Iranians, mostly overlooked by Western countries, convinced the Iranians that they had to build a nuclear deterrent. Ove

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

in northern Iraq, and Tikrit, the home of Saddam Hussein's clan, and they have laid siege to Samarra, the

in northern and western Iraq, the insurgents control much EFTA00706969 of Mosul, the most important city in northern Iraq, and Tikrit, the home of Saddam Hussein's clan, and they have laid siege to Samarra, the site of one of Shiism's most storied shrines. It would be no surprise if the next few weeks brought t

ica's nominal ally, Saudi Arabia. As a result, a Sunni-Shiite regional conflict has been escalating over the past decade. There was no Al Qaeda in Saddam's Iraq. The United States birthed it through the invasion. It then beat Al Qaeda down, before allowing its affiliates to regroup by leaving and doi

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