Epstein Secrets

Jackson Diehl September 12 -- Ryan Crocker sounds very far from Washington — and not only because he is talking over an uncertain phone line from Kabul. The U.S. ambassador is one of the great protagonists of the post-9/11 era, serving more than half of the last 10 years in Afghanistan, Iraq and P

John Marshall's phrase) in foreign affairs. The Constitution gives him sole authority to "receive Ambassadors and other public ministers" and since George Washington's presidency this authority has been understood to include the right to grant or withhold U.S. recognition of a foreign state's existence

nally committed to the executive. That is no place for the courts. Messrs. Rivkin and Casey served in the Justice Department during the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations. EFTA00586783 13 The Washington Post Ryan Crocker's `strategic patience' in Afghanistan Jackson Diehl September 12 -- Ryan Cr

doning Afghanistan," says Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. But it doesn't take much imagination for others: frightened shopkeepers and women in Kabul, hedging Pakistani security officials, determined Taliban warlords. They see the shipping containers packing and leaving. And they hear Obama, in h

sure, of these wars that we get into that sometimes do not represent a direct national security threat to the United States." Baker argued that the George H.W. Bush-led 1990-1991 Gulf War, which was prosecuted by an international coalition Baker himself played a key role in creating, was a more successful model

prominent civilians." Also Tuesday, Zalmay Khalilzad, "the U.S. diplomat who brokered a separate U.S. deal with the Taliban in February, arrived in Kabul" from Qatar. According to the Post, "While both Afghan and Taliban officials have issued recent statements saying they were committed to the talks.

of President Donald Trump and Vice President Pence, with an Electoral College victory of 306 - 232, making Trump the first one term president since George H.W. Bush * Biden and Harris are sworn in 20 Jan Location: U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC US House: • House of Representatives meets for legislative business

s had to wrestle with his own crises. He survived George W. Bush’s “global war on terror” after 9/11, then faced the

e anyway. Donilon believes you have to go back to George H. W. Bush’s era to find such “alignment” among national-sec

es—as on the details of Af-Pak escalation— they cordially disagree but know the president will decide anyway. Donilon believes you have to go back to George H. W. Bush’s era to find such “alignment” among national-security principals. “She’s a great team player,” he says. The biggest problem between State and the Whi

evelopment challenges and global conflicts often seem intractable, and that has to be a little discouraging at three in the morning in the skies over Kabul or Cairo. “You can’t just look at these conflicts and issues and say, ‘O.K., that’s been solved,’” Hillary says to me at the end of an interview, sta

ect negotiation with Israel is the only way to reach a deal. What have we been doing for the past 20 years? What have we been doing since [President George H.W.]| Bush told us that if we recognize Israel, accept the two-state solution and renounce violence, the U.S. will stand shoulder to shoulder with us? HOUSE_OV

it—as they had in Lebanon and Somalia, that they didn't have the stomach for a fight. The Arabs barely took notice when America struck the Taliban in Kabul. What was Afghanistan to them? It was a blighted and miserable land at a safe distance. But the American war, and the sense of righteous violation,