Epstein Secrets

ministration said Assad's fall was inevitable but refused to make it so. Thousands died as Washington fiddled; instability and violence spread into Lebanon, Iraq and Jordan; and U.S. weapons leaked into terrorist hands. Now civil war has virtually engulfed the most strategic region in the world, making

cated and intangible. China's Communists face another long march—and this time it may be one they do not finish. Jonathan Levine is a lecturer of American Studies and English at Tsinghua University in Beijing and a contributing analyst at Wikistrat, a geostrategic consulting group. EFTA00701631

o long, as the case with Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in Libya or Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Additionally his positions vis-a-vis Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza, two topics that are dear to the hearts of grassroots Syrians, have given him a protective shield that other Arab leaders do not

ns of the Holocaust. Mohammed S. Dajani Daoudi is the founder of the Wasatia movement, which promotes moderation in Islam, and the director of the American Studies department at Al-Quds University. Robert Satloff is executive director of The Washington Institute and the author of Among the Righteous: Lost Stor

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- mated Andy Gomez. an as- sistant provost at the Univer- sity of Miami who is also a senior fellow in the school's Institute for Cuban and Cu- ban American Studies. Castro, who turns 80 this month, temporarily ceded power to his brother Raul last week when he underwent abdominal surgery. leading to a- Sio