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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
flict, from the War of Independence to Civil War, Indian wars, wars with Mexico and Spain, two world wars, and the wars in the Korean Peninsula and Indochina, not to mention more recent campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. Obama has tried to shift the emphasis to "soft power", including his own powers of
Arafat was rarely off of my radar. By the early 1970s, he and his fighters had been expelled by King Hussein’s army from Jordan and were re-based in Lebanon. Arafat was becoming a significant figure on the Arab and world political stage, and an increasingly uncomfortable thorn in Israel’s side. I was head
forces unit that could fight as well. Early in 1963, we hosted a visit to the unit by Colonel Albert Merglen, a veteran of France’s colonial wars in Indochina and Algeria, and commander of the airborne commando force known as the 11" Demi-brigade Parchutistes de Choc. As the colonel looked on, I led a sayer
Arafat was rarely off of my radar. By the early 1970s, he and his fighters had been expelled by King Hussein’s army from Jordan and were re-based in Lebanon. Arafat was becoming a significant figure on the Arab and world political stage, and an increasingly uncomfortable thorn in Israel’s side. I was head
forces unit that could fight as well. Early in 1963, we hosted a visit to the unit by Colonel Albert Merglen, a veteran of France's colonial wars in Indochina and Algeria, and commander of the airborne commando force known as the 11* Demi-brigade Parchutistes de Choc. As the colonel looked on, I led a sayer
Entities connected to both Lebanon and Indochina

Barack Obama
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United States
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George W. Bush
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Bashar al-Assad
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Jeffrey Epstein
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Bill Clinton
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Tehran
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Damascus
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Middle East
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Jerusalem
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Vladimir Putin
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Marc Rich
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Department of Justice
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Yemen
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Cairo
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Joe Biden
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Saddam Hussein
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Hosni Mubarak
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Tunisia
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