Epstein Secrets

resounding military victory, we failed to follow through with nation building. Secretary Rumsfeld opposed the extension of UN peacekeeping beyond Kabul, and, as a result, law and order have still not been fully established outside the capital. Hamid Karzai needs to be protected by American bodygua

nt. We have come a long way from Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who said that we have nothing to fear but fear

nistration is deliberately fostering fear because it helps to keep the nation lined up behind the president. We have come a long way from Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who said that we have nothing to fear but fear itself. But the war on terrorism -- which is supposed to include the war on Iraq -- cannot be acce

thern province of Samangan." The New York Times (8/9, Gibbons-Neff, Rahim, Hassan, 20.6M) reports that Aybak "sits on the main highway that connects Kabul...to Afghanistan's northern provinces," and says its "fall means that the Taliban have effectively placed a stranglehold on much of Balkh Province

hat will be the most consequential piece of legislation for working people, the elderly, the children, the sick and the poor since [Franklin Delano Roosevelt] and the New Deal of the 1930s." The Hill (8/9, 5.69M) lays out "some of the key areas the newly released budget framework would approve spending fo

or Slon.ru, an independent Russian news site, how the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, in 1979, under the pretext of helping a "fraternal" ally in Kabul; to Parkhomenko, Putin's decision to couch his military action as the "protection" of Russians living in Crimea is an equally transparent pretext.

mbined with President Franklin Roosevelt's vision of the geopolitical future of the United States was a now famous, then little noticed, meeting of Roosevelt and the ruler of Saudi Arabia, Ibn Saud, on Feb. 14, 1945 aboard a U.S. destroyer in the Red Sea. Despite Roosevelt's grave illness (he was to die

urgency. Pakistan is reluctant to support any solution that doesn't protect its interests in Afghanistan or fails to provide a non-aligned setup in Kabul with a dominant role for Pashtuns, putting it at odds with Western allies and the Afghan government. The US wants the present setup to continue EF

ork in the kitchen can't complain about how hot the stove is." [The well-known version of the saying is typically attributed to President Truman.] Roosevelt's point was that enduring harsh and hurtful criticism is one of those duties that goes part and parcel with holding public office in a democracy. I

ly and inadvertently, of course, may have been the development of mass corruption," said Ryan Crocker, who twice served as the top U.S. diplomat in Kabul, in 2002 and again from 2011 to 2012. "Once it gets to the level I saw, when I was out there, it's somewhere between unbelievably hard and outright

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" -- Former Afghan leader Hamid Karzai said he grew estranged from his American allies during his 10 years in power. Pamela Constable reports from Kabul: "His version of U.S.-Afghan relations during his tenure is sharply at odds with the American version, and he has often depicted himself as the mal

Standing literally feet away from where Franklin Roosevelt told the country that December 7, 1941, was "a d

4." — Former Afghan leader Hamid Karzai said he grew estranged from his American allies during his 10 years in power. Pamela Constable reports from Kabul: "His version of U.S.-Afghan relations during his tenure is sharply at odds with the American version, and he has often depicted himself as the mal

Standing literally feet away from where Franklin Roosevelt told the country that December 7, 1941, was "a d

Pakistanis. Americans, meanwhile, are furious at Pakistan for sheltering the leadership of the Afghan Taliban, who are fighting U.S. forces and the Kabul government in Afghanistan. Given this explosive situation, is it really possible for the United States and Pakistan to go on working together again

D. Roosevelt declared his resolve to build 50,000 warplanes EFTA00585503 24 — a number that sounded reassuring until it was later revealed that Roosevelt had simply made it up. Two moments in World War II were expected to prove the invincibility of military air power. Instead, they showed its limita