Epstein Secrets

ing in Syria Doyle McManus December 15, 2013 -- Here's how feeble U.S. influence on the outcome of Syria's dreadful civil war has become: For the Obama administration's diplomacy to succeed, it now needs help from an armed group with the unpromising name of the Islamic Front. That wasn't where the

litics, beyond the support of a few oilmen and arms manufacturers. The Saudi royals do not even enjoy the warm personal relationship with President Barack Obama that they once had with Presidents George Bush (both father and son) and Bill Clinton, who managed bilateral relations directly. Perhaps the most

wasn't where the administration hoped to be. When President Obama first got interested in Syria back in 2011, his

oy the warm personal relationship with President Barack Obama that they once had with Presidents George

President's attention in the region for the next three years. Yet three years is a long time to fill a power vacancy in the Middle East. And while Leon Aron exaggerates slightly in his assessment that, after the Syrian chemical deal, "Russia is on equal footing now as a power in the Middle East," he rig

t of departure, the onset of the global financial crisis in 2008, which also marked the European Union's greatest setback. He cited U.S. president Barack Obama and vari- ous unnamed sources on the West's weakness, including an internationally recognized analyst" who wrote that liberal values today "embody

greatest setback. He cited U.S. president Barack Obama and vari- ous unnamed sources on the West's weakn

nion's greatest setback. He cited U.S. president Barack Obama and vari- ous unnamed sources on the West's

ia Daily Monitor. No- vember 14, 2014, https://iamestown.ore/program/protectine-the.mothertand-russias-counter-color-revolution.military-doctrinet 2. Leon Aron, 'Drivers of Putin's Foreign Policy; American Enterprise Institute, June 14, 2016, https-f/www asintg/oublication/ drivets•pfrputins-foreinpolicy/2

Daily Monitor, No- vember 14, 2014, https://jamestown.org/program/protecting-the-motherland-russias-counter-color-revolution-military-doctrine/. 2. Leon Aron, “Drivers of Putin's Foreign Policy,” American Enterprise Institute, June 14, 2016, https://www.aei.org/publication/ drivers-of-putins-foreign-policy

t of departure, the onset of the global financial crisis in 2008, which also marked the European Union’s greatest setback. ¢ He cited U.S. president Barack Obama and vari- ous unnamed sources on the West's weakness, including an “internationally recognized analyst" who wrote that liberal values today “embody c

eatest setback. ¢ He cited U.S. president Barack Obama and vari- ous unnamed sources on the West's weakn