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e blind to their weak spots, and in ways that have real-world consequences. Remember when Pentagon planners thought U.S. troops would be greeted in Baghdad with flowers and parades? They mostly got RPGs and IEDs instead. Myth 5 God Is on Our Side. A crucial component of American exceptionalism is the
ds system, its rhetorical support for the core principles of democracy and human rights, and its mostly stabilizing military presence in Europe and the Far East. But the belief that all good things flow from Washington's wisdom overstates the U.S. contribution by a wide margin. For starters, though American
irst air-raid sirens wailed in Israel at about 2 a.m. on January 18, 1991, almost exactly 24 hours after the Americans began their bombing raids over Baghdad. I was home in Kochav Yair. Like other Israelis, we’d set up a sealed shelter. Though I felt a bit silly doing it, having assured the government Sadd
y three decades of military service and my entry into politics. I'd got a hint of the storm that was about to engulf me a few days before we left for the Far East. It was a letter from a reporter at Yeidot Achronot, Israel’s largest-selling newspaper, with a list of questions about Tze’elim. The thrust of the q
irst air-raid sirens wailed in Israel at about 2 a.m. on January 18, 1991, almost exactly 24 hours after the Americans began their bombing raids over Baghdad. I was home in Kochav Yair. Like other Israelis, we'd set up a sealed shelter. Though I felt a bit silly doing it, having assured the government Sadd
y three decades of military service and my entry into politics. I'd got a hint of the storm that was about to engulf me a few days before we left for the Far East. It was a letter from a reporter at Yeidot Achronot, Israel's largest-selling newspaper, with a list of questions about Tze' elim. The thrust of the
port, whether it's the Soviet Union, England, the United States, and eventually to take back continental Europe and to beat back a barbaric empire in the Far East. That capitalism really generated tremendous wealth. And that wealth was really distributed among a middle class, a rising middle class, people who c
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029022 →happening in ISIS, which is the Islamic State of Syria and the Levant, that is now currently forming the caliphate that is having a military drive on Baghdad, if you look at the sophistication of which they've taken the tools of capitalism. If you look at what they've done with Twitter and Facebook and mod
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029025 →port, whether it's the Soviet Union, England, the United States, and eventually to take back continental Europe and to beat back a barbaric empire in the Far East. That capitalism really generated tremendous wealth. And that wealth was really distributed among a middle class, a rising middle class, people who c
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029044 →happening in ISIS, which is the Islamic State of Syria and the Levant, that is now currently forming the caliphate that is having a military drive on Baghdad, if you look at the sophistication of which they've taken the tools of capitalism. If you look at what they've done with Twitter and Facebook and mod
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029046 →port, whether it's the Soviet Union, England, the United States, and eventually to take back continental Europe and to beat back a barbaric empire in the Far East. That capitalism really generated tremendous wealth. And that wealth was really distributed among a middle class, a rising middle class, people who c
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029065 →happening in ISIS, which is the Islamic State of Syria and the Levant, that is now currently forming the caliphate that is having a military drive on Baghdad, if you look at the sophistication of which they've taken the tools of capitalism. If you look at what they've done with Twitter and Facebook and mod
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029067 →Entities connected to both Baghdad and the Far East

Barack Obama
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George W. Bush
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United States
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Jeffrey Epstein
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Bill Clinton
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Lebanon
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Tehran
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Bashar al-Assad
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Saddam Hussein
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Cairo
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Marc Rich
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Donald Trump
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Damascus
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Department of Justice
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Hillary Clinton
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Hosni Mubarak
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Vladimir Putin
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Joe Biden
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