Epstein Secrets

college in the middle of Iowa. The entire curve has risen and applicants in the Midwest are literally competing with their counterparts in Shanghai, Mumbai, Kiev, Johannesburg and Tokyo. This is not a metaphor. This is the reality if you want to go to Grinnell College in Iowa. The Kurdish people, or Ku

quietly tweak this or that aspect of the facts on the ground. As a result, it is pointless for another American to die in that miserable place. The Balkans, said Bismarck, wasn't worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier. All the less so Mesopotamia. The New Map of the Middle East Why we should

t India, somehow the administration failed to heed its own intelligence predicting the brutal Lashkar-i-Taibaattacks on hotels and tourist sites in Mumbai last month — attacks that paralleled strikes in 1993, 2006 and 2008. (Just see today's Washington Post column by David Ignatius, in which he quote

benefit of time. George H.W. Bush, for instance, is increasingly considered a skilled foreign policy president, even though he left office with the Balkans descending into the abyss and Saddam Hussein clinging to power — two "failures" that many thought would forever taint his legacy. With foreign pol

e more than enough. Pakistan, which is losing competition with India, is already seriously concerned that another provocation (like the attack at a Mumbai hotel) would force New Delhi to respond. In what ways, other than nuclear weapons, Islamabad would be able to prevent its military defeat is uncle

ith the horrors of military conflict. (It's indeed inconceivable that war would now break out between two European countries, except perhaps in the Balkans.) But the loyalty of Europeans still resides foremost with the countries of their birth. The idea of the nation-state is deeply rooted throughout t