Epstein Secrets

FTA00659891 their first contested leadership election in 7,000 years, how should we understand the speed, scope and variety of change transforming the Middle East? A year ago, the narrative was simple -- Arabs had awoken from their millennial slumber and demanded to be citizens, not subjects. But since then,

tory. And yet this is the sort of war we have fought, almost exclusively, for over 50 years. President John F. Kennedy warned those graduating from West Point in 1961 that they would struggle to defeat insurgent enemies: "Where there is a visible enemy to fight in open combat, the answer is not so difficu

olding chaos in their midst, why should the United States, some 7000 miles from Iraq spill its blood and treasure in another futile quest to remake the Middle East for them? A futile quest that has over the last decade chewed up the minds and bodies of 56,000 brave American soldiers, including some 4,700 kille

le remaining superpower, the US was best positioned to restore the status quo in the Middle East. And while Obama reiterated at a recent address at West Point that the US remains the sole "indispensable" nation in the world and that it must continue to lead because "no one else will," he also acknowledged

r those who didn=92t understand prior to the American invasion of Iraq about this boiling c=uldron of tribal hate that played so important a role in Middle Eastern se=urity, the evidence grew stronger throughout the war. AI-Qaeda and its affiliated organizations have killed untold thou=ands of Shiites in the pa

bels, but from all evidence little or no material help actually =allowed. Finally in late May 2014, the president himself announced in his speech at West Point a decision to give=additional aid to the rebels: "I will work with Congress to ramp up s=pport for those in the Syrian opposition who offer the bes

her U.S. war in the Middle East Richard L. Russell February 5, 2013 - Shortly before he left office in Feb. 2011, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told West Point cadets that "in my opinion, any future defense secretary who advised the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middl

fter it draws down forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, it's also likely dead wrong. What is true, however, is that political and military trajectories in the Middle East and South Asia are likely to increasingly challenge U.S. contingency access in the coming decade. The ability for the United States to surge large-sc