Epstein Secrets

n's key ally, Syria. Hezbollah is in danger of losing its Syrian backers, and Lebanon is in danger of slipping into another civil war exported from Damascus, which would keep Hezbollah preoccupied. The balance of power tilts decisively toward Israel, which is a success story of American diplomacy. Every

e, your choice will seem hard indeed." The choices of that West Point class, and of those that would follow it into a counterinsurgency campaign in Southeast Asia, were more difficult than their young president could imagine. Although the Army made real progress in understanding and implementing counterinsurg

e=tly suspended the project. <=r> Meanwhile, the CIA Hs rival plan to simply ship armaments to existing forces fighting against=the government in Damascus hasn't yielded more than "</=ont>zilch," at least according to rece=t reports. Except that the success that anti-Assad forces have had w=th anti-tan

hard Nixon, another Cold=Warrior, as well as considered one of the most duplicitous president in U.=. history actually knew that the U.S. air war in Southeast Asia was a dism=l failure. Even as he was telling the media that the saturation bomb=ngs of Vietnam and Laos were "very effective," Nixon was =rivately a

ghting alongside Assad forces inside Syria. Meanwhile, wiping Israel off the map can wait. Conflict with Sunnis gives Hizbollah and its patrons in Damascus and Tehran a regional role; war with Israel is costly and unrewarding, a lesson that Hafez Al Assad learnt some 40 years ago. As such, as Syria's

nditions haven't improved much in many parts of the Indian northeast; New Delhi's belated efforts to transform the region into an economic hub with Southeast Asia have yet to take hold. Long gone are the days when caravans would regularly depart from Ladakh, in what's now Indian Kashmir, and wind their way a

was "deeply sorry" for anti-gay comments she made a few years ago but not sorry for meeting with Bashar al-Assad, the man known as the butcher of Damascus, in Syria. Joe Biden expressed regret last weekend in South Carolina for his comments about working with segregationists in the Senate. "Was I wro

ding to people who have viewed them, largely tabloid stories that the network didn't deem in 22 countries, mostly in Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia. ... The projects are meant to help women with employment and entrepreneurship, and provide women in business with access to financing and oth