Epstein Secrets

Some have predicted that the talks might collapse altogether after next week's meetings, given Iran's behavior in Baghdad and since. Is this just Tehran's way of stringing along the talks, while it continues to push ahead with enrichment of uranium that could eventually be used to make a bomb? That'

the vote and the Salafis 25 percent in the first round of Egypt's parliamentary elections, Rana Abdelhai, a student, told New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof that while she would never vote for a Muslim Brotherhood or Salafi candidate, "This is democracy now. We have to respect who other people choose,

hen it comes, may involve Turkey and Iran. Turkey wants to replace the entire regime structure; Iran wants the opposite. That's why both Ankara and Tehran will need to compromise, identifying high-ranking Syrians, probably military, who will protect each country's interests and upon whom a new regime

sad's goons killing the Syrian opposition? Or the Iran of a young, dynamic populace hungry for democracy, dignity, and jobs, a population that, as Nicholas Kristof has reported recently in the New York Times, harbors little antipathy toward the United States and wants the same freedoms we all want, who are hei

d the Lebanese Shiite resistance movement Hezbollah, Syria is viewed with great hostility by Israel and with wary suspicion by the United States. The Tehran-Damascus- Hezbollah axis -- of which Syria is the linchpin -- has long been seen by many leaders in the region as the lone bulwark against Israeli an

en the Libyan rebels and President Nicolas Sarkozy, has said: "What is important in this affair is that the 'duty to intervene' has been recognised." Nicholas Kristof, writing in The New York Times, makes a similar point - "World powers have the right and obligation to intervene when a dictator devours his people."