Epstein Secrets

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had put its power behind liberty. Saddam Hussein was flushed out of a spider hole, the Syrian brigades of terror and extortion were pushed out of Lebanon, and the despotism of Hosni Mubarak, long a pillar of Pax Americana, seemed to lose some of its mastery. But post-Saddam Iraq held out mixed messag

not do terribly well in the new era. A zero-sum world may summon up rather darker forces. Gideon Rachman is chief foreign-affairs commentator for the Financial Times and author of Zero-Sum Future: American Power in an Age of Anxiety, available in paperback on Feb. 4. Article 6 The Christian Science Monitor Can

and Israel, and Egypt had a government that did not want that arrangement to break. Israel still faced a formally hostile Syria. Syria had invaded Lebanon in 1976 to crush the Palestine Liberation Organization based there and reconsolidate its hold over Lebanon, but knew it could not attack Israel by

is a U.K.-based writer and author of the upcoming book "Nuclear Iran: The Birth of an Atomic State." His work has appeared in the New Statesman and Financial Times, among other publications. Article 3. The Washington Post U.N. chief should boycott Tehran conference Editorial August 15 -- THE UNITED NATIONS