Epstein Secrets

uray] I do not believe that the Doha agreement has failed. There is a possibility. We should not allow the divisions to remain. I went to China and Vietnam earlier, and they were saying to us: Comrades, make it your priority to consolidate your national unity, because it is the guarantee of your victor

1:26:17 +0000 23 April, 2012 Article 1. The Washington Post Nuclear weapon reductions must be part of strategic analysis Henry A. Kissinger and Brent Scowcroft Article 2. The National Interest The Fantasy of Zero Nukes Amitai Etzioni Article 3. The Weekly Standard Negotiations That Matter Reuel Marc

he realm of the absurd. "Syria," he argues, "has been one of the great fiascoes of post- World War II American foreign policy." Really? Do the words Vietnam or Iraq mean anything to him? In fact he argues that, "the result of this U.S. inaction [in Syria] is a disaster." Whatever else it is, the cause

e coming years should be this: You have to know when to hold'em and when to fold'em. Robert A. Manning is a senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council's Brent Scowcroft Center for International Security and formerly served on the State Dept. Policy Planning staff and National Intelligence Council (NIC) 2001-2012);

n," Caro recalled. L.B.J. was, after all, also the President who made the catastrophic decision to deepen America's involvement in the quagmire of Vietnam. "Obama seems interested in winding down our foreign wars," Caro said approvingly. When Obama does ask Republicans to a social occasion, he is some

t the idealism of a previous generation of interventionists, but his realism, if that's what it is, diverges from the realism of Henry Kissinger or Brent Scowcroft. "It comes from the idea that change is organic and change comes to countries in its own way, modernization comes in its own way, rather than throu

plain Beijing's assertive, nationalist actions over disputed islets in the East China Sea with Japan and the South China Sea with the Philippines, Vietnam and Malaysia. The maritime disputes may be a popular short-term distraction, but won't alleviate pressures for change. However, at the end of the

, let alone without making it still more difficult to breathe, is another question. Robert A. Manning is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Brent Scowcroft Center for International Security and its Strategic Foresight Initiative. He previously served in the US State Department as a senior advisor to th

Lebanon, I remember wondering aloud to a few army friends, and to Nava as well, whether we would look back in a decade’s time and see the war as “our Vietnam’. In fact, Israeli troops would still be in south Lebanon nearly two decades later, when I had left the military and was about to become Israeli Prim

d the Oval Office on the evening of February 11, Bush was flanked by Secretary of State Baker, Defense Secretary Cheney and national security adviser Brent Scowcroft. Also there was Colin Powell, a general whom I had got to know well, and to like, over the past few years and who was now head of the joint chiefs-of

Lebanon, I remember wondering aloud to a few army friends, and to Nava as well, whether we would look back in a decade's time and see the war as "our Vietnam". In fact, Israeli troops would still be in south Lebanon nearly two decades later, when I had left the military and was about to become Israeli Prim

d the Oval Office on the evening of February 11, Bush was flanked by Secretary of State Baker, Defense Secretary Cheney and national security adviser Brent Scoweroft. Also there was Colin Powell, a general whom I had got to know well, and to like, over the past few years and who was now head of the joint chiefs-of