Epstein Secrets

the region, blames Egypt's violence on the Jews; pretty much everyone else blames it on the U.S. The Obama administration had a grand strategy in the Middle East. It was well intentioned, carefully crafted and consistently pursued. Unfortunately, it failed. The plan was simple but elegant: The U.S. would wo

terrorists and radicals, further marginalizing them in the Islamic world. Finally, these groups with American support could bring democracy to more Middle Eastern countries, leading to improved economic and social conditions, gradually eradicating the ills and grievances that drove some people to fanatical an

of various different types of gases and nerve agents. One of the first war correspondents to enter the town afterward, the late Richard Beeston of the Times of London, reported that "Like figures unearthed in Pompeii, the victims of Halabja were killed so quickly that their corpses remained in suspended animatio

diplomats continued to press a collective response. For decades they had EFTA00684260 no common foreign policy toward any region of the world but the Middle East. But instead of finding pragmatic solutions, they settled for airy joint resolutions; after having agreed on most subtle wordings, the diplomats in

rn—that the United States might be turning inward. It was the time of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. The American president was hobbled. Suddenly, as the Times of London wrote, leaders "in all the world's trouble spots" were "calculating what will happen when Washington's gaze is distracted." The liberal German news

Her e-mail address is elisa_ctumerepbpostcom David Ignatius Turning disaster to opportunity Groping for a way to understand the ruinous mess in the Middle East I find myself looking back- ward to an earlier ruinous mess, the Yom Kippur War of October 1973. That long-ago war, like the cue rent one in Leban

, rang in the New Year with British blonde Kate Reardon, 36 (above), a former fashion director for Tatter magazine who now writes about jewelry for the Times of London. The couple ushered in 2005 in St. Barts aboard Allen's 413- foot yacht, "Octopus," equipped with two helicopters and a 60-foot submarine. There wer