Epstein Secrets

hat is after all the Bush/neocon/democracy activist line. Take U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's 2005 speech at the American University in Cairo or Bush's second inaugural address -- both reviled by "realists." It would be nice if some of the critics now admitted that such speeches were prop

s to the contrary. Robert Kagan is senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. His new book, The World America Made, will be published next month. Anne-Marie Slaughter: Overall, Barack Obama has had a very good run on foreign policy, aided by his superstar secretary of state. His greatest accomplishments are the

g ground for Islamist extremism and violence that -- barring a dramatic improvement in relations between the Bedouins and the central government in Cairo -- threatens Egypt and the region at large. Sinai's lawlessness recently sparked an international incident: On Aug. 18, gunmen carried out a string

Abueid Scientific American Is Muammar Qadhafi Clinically Psychotic? John Matson The Financial Times Why Libya sceptics were proved badly wrong Anne-Marie Slaughter Foreign Policy Sinai's Bedouin run amok in post-Mubarak Egypt Mohamed Fadel Fahm y The National Interest Foreign-Policy Failure Dimitri K. Simes

g ground for Islamist extremism and violence that -- barring a dramatic improvement in relations between the Bedouins and the central government in Cairo -- threatens Egypt and the region at large. Sinai's lawlessness recently sparked an international incident: On Aug. 18, gunmen carried out a string

Abueid Scientific American Is Muammar Qadhafi Clinically Psychotic? John Matson The Financial Times Why Libya sceptics were proved badly wrong Anne-Marie Slaughter Foreign Policy Sinai's Bedouin run amok in post-Mubarak Egypt Mohamed Fadel Fahm y The National Interest Foreign-Policy Failure Dimitri K. Simes

ush's foreign policy was largely a reaction to 9/11, Obama's has been a reaction to the reaction. He withdrew American forces from Iraq. He went to Cairo in 2009, in an attempt to forge "a new beginning" between the United States and the Muslim world. American troops will come home from Afghanistan t

y, rather than through liberation narratives coming from the West," Fareed Zakaria, a writer on foreign policy whom Obama reads and consults, says. Anne-Marie Slaughter, who worked at the State Department as Hillary Clinton's director of policy planning, says, "Obama has a real understanding of the limits of our po

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irls pushed the boys into war is ludicrous,” says Anne-Marie Slaughter, who until recently served as director of policy

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