Epstein Secrets

ional-security briefings to his ranch, in Stonewall, Texas, by government aircraft. It worked; Johnson, who was alienated from his party because of Vietnam, mostly kept quiet during Nixon's 1972 reelection campaign, against George McGovern. Ronald Reagan treated the recently disgraced Nixon with defere

list, we have included only individuals with a reasonably clear party affiliation, regardless of the authority their office gives them (sorry Gen. Petraeus) -- and, of course, many of those with extraordinary influence aren't in government at all. Here, then, is the FP 50, Democrat edition -- the behin

he Vietnam War, when the Pentagon tested unmanned aerial vehicles for what the military called ISR: intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. "Vietnam was decisive to the development of drones as the perfect tools to perform dangerous missions without the risk of losing a pilot," says aviation his

e on the same side here, trying to make the country safe." At the center of the debate was Obama's newly appointed CIA chief, Gen. David Petraeus. Petraeus sided with the White House, recognizing the need to strike a balance between maintaining a strong relationship with Pakistan and aggressively pursu

ity from Afghanistan." Reuters (4/18) reports Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Sunday "rejected what he said were 'false analogies' with the war in Vietnam as well as any suggestion his government was at risk of folding under Taliban pressure." Ghani said on c-NN's Fareeri 7akaria GPS (4/18, 825K), "We

went against the Pentagon and the opinions of former generals like David Petraeus and Joseph Dunford." Blinken said, "I have great respect for Gen. Petraeus, Gen. Dunford, and others, but we had a very deliberate and fully informed process leading up to the decision by the President." The Washington Pos

ity from Afghanistan." Reuters (4/18) reports Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Sunday "rejected what he said were `false analogies' with the war in Vietnam as well as any suggestion his government was at risk of folding under Taliban pressure." Ghani said on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPSVi (4/18, 825K), "We

went against the Pentagon and the opinions of former generals like David Petraeus and Joseph Dunford." Blinken said, "I have great respect for Gen. Petraeus, Gen. Dunford, and others, but we had a very deliberate and fully informed process leading up to the decision by the President." The Washington Pos

utocrats who have overseen GDP growth rates of 10 percent annually over the past three decades? It is in places like China, Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam where good dictators have produced economic miracles. These in turn have led to the creation of wide-ranging personal freedoms, even as these leade

the key decisions that led to success--a surge of troops and the appointment of Gen. David Petraeus to oversee the strategy--predated his arrival. Petraeus says Gates knew that his real contribution was to buy time in Washington for the strategy to succeed. "'Your battle space is Iraq. My battle space

ic debt centers on 40=8040entitlements" like Social Security (which hasn't a=ded a penny to the national debt) when we're still paying for Korea an= Vietnam and Grenada and Panama and the first Gulf War and Somalia and the=Balkans and on and on. Estimates of just how much of our national de=t payments a

neral David Petraeus told him dur=ng the early days of the Iraq War and things were not going well. Wh=n asked whether he wished he had more troops. Petraeus was too polit=cally savvy to criticize the Donald Rumsfeld "light footprint*=8* strategy, so he deflected the question, answering it a different wa

ter=p&gettields=wnnis&=sort=date:D:S:dl&partialfields=- wnnis:NOAVSYND&Ir=-Iangja> 's poring over the map of Khe Sanh in search of bombing=targets in Vietnam; the marked difference is the anguish of LBJ, and by th= telling, the serene confidence of Obama that this is a war of necessity a=d a just campaig

r ki=ling the proposal. But the two senior officials acknowledged under questioning on Thursday from Senator John McC=in that they had supported the Petraeus-Clinton plan. On Friday White Hou=e spokesman Jay Carney <http://topics.wsj.com/person/C/Jay-Carney/6498> was typically dodgy and wouldn't confirm

gh the key decisions that led to success--a surge of troops and the appointment of Gen. David Petraeus to oversee the strategy--predated his arrival. Petraeus says Gates knew that his real contribution was to buy time in Washington for the strategy to succeed. " 'Your battle space is Iraq. My battle space i

autocrats who have overseen GDP growth rates of 10 percent annually over the past three decades? It is in places like China, Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam where good dictators have produced economic miracles. These in turn have led to the creation of wide-ranging personal freedoms, even as these leaders