Epstein Secrets

Larsen < IIMI> Subject: January 24 update Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:19:06 +0000 24 January, 2012 Article 1. Wall Street Journal What Moscow and Damascus have in common Editorial Article 2. The Daily Beast syria: The Lost Bequest of Hafez Assad Fouad Ajami Article 3. The National (Abu Dhabi) A

The first president to inherit a shooting war in 40 years, Obama actually inherited two: He has been a wartime president from the get-go, and, like Woodrow Wilson, is the only other sitting American president with a war and a Nobel Peace Prize, however unearned. One reason the Republicans now have such a hard

ast make it clear that Assad w=ll not have a free hand in reestablishing his rule." Is such use of Amer=can air power feasible? Yes; outside of the Damascus area air defenses are=quite limite= and so would be the risk t= the United States. This conclusion is supported by Israel's series of suc=essful air

ermined, as has American moral leadership. The associat=on of the United States with the cause of human rights and democracy, going back at least to Woodrow Wilson, has =een weakened by its unwillingness to act in the Syrian case. America's sof= power is linked to its reputation for idealism and the defense of

ents might be interpreted. But that could change. Now, six years later, with its own popularity in Gaza at a low-water mark and its former ally in Damascus on the ropes, Hamas may decide to encourage those diplomats who are determined to be encouraged. That wouldn't take much of an ideological shift on

n, who first popularized the notion that the President "is the direct representative of the American people," and it was later institutionalized by Woodrow Wilson, who explicitly wanted the American government to be like the more responsive parliamentary system of the United Kingdom. Like Jackson, he argued

ee the paradoxes of power we read about earlier, the inability to act and the collapse of American credibility, as clearly as people in Washington or Damascus or Moscow. Surely the global system should be adjusted, they think. Tap. Tap. 178 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018410 So though no inherent enmity exists betwe

gy than chasing Middle East peace.**@ Gatekeeping does not transcend the long-standing debates between the cold realism of Stalin and the idealism of Woodrow Wilson so much as it sets us a preliminary task: Shaping the environment. To build and control the next generation of gatekept systems should be our aim now