Epstein Secrets

n variables of a post-Assad Syria appear to have created a divide between U.S. and Israeli strategies, as the Netanyahu government has not followed Obama's course EFTA00659881 on Syria. The Israeli concerns surrounding the collapse of Syria's Ba'athist party are legitimate. Washington should also c

persuaded the Sunni tribes to "flip" and start fighting the radicals rather than Americans. The surge changed the war in Iraq dramatically, even as Barack Obama, then a candidate for president, was promising to swing resources away from Iraq and into the "good war" in Afghanistan. President Obama fulfilled

John A. Nagl June 6, 2012 -- THIS Memorial Day, President Obama recognized veterans of all of the nation's wars,

rge changed the war in Iraq dramatically, even as Barack Obama, then a candidate for president, was promi

srael's qualitative superiority over its enemies for decades. Now we know it got some help from Berlin as well. Bruce Riedel is a senior fellow in the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. A career CIA officer, he has advised four presidents on Middle East and South Asian issues in

Rice Offers a More Modest Strategy for Mideast Mark Landler 26 October 2013 -- Each Saturday morning in July and August, Susan E. Rice, President Obama's new national security adviser, gathered half a dozen aides in her corner office in the White House to plot America's future in the Middle East. T

urday morning in July and August, Susan E. Rice, President Obama's new national security adviser, gathered half a

fraught history with Syria illustrates. "You can have your agenda, but you can't control what happens," said Tamara Cofman Wittes, the director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. "The argument that we can't make a decisive difference, so we're not going to try, is wronghea

tuate the unhappiness of their people is going to require more than mere oratory from the White House. It is going to mean doing something that the Obama administration promised when it first took office but then turned away from shortly thereafter. It is going to mean embracing and leading a compreh

ian people have shown us all the path, but it will take American leadership to reach the desired destination. Kenneth M. Pollack is the director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution and the author of "A Path Out of the Desert: A Grand Strategy for America in the Middle East."

tuate the unhappiness of their people is going to require more than mere oratory from the White House. It is going to mean doing something that the Obama administration promised when it first took office but then turned away from shortly thereafter. It is going to mean embracing and leading a compreh

tian people have shown us all the path, but it will take American leadership to reach the desired destination. Kenneth M Pollack is the director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution and the author of "A Path Out of the Desert: A Grand Strategy for America in the Middle East."