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…about political crossfire and more focused on the legacy of his own tenure, which bridged the presidencies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama. He is determined to define his own legacy as Pentagon boss, and eager to push back against one of the more vocal criticisms of his tenure...

… I was sent to Washington along with Misha and David Ivri, a former air force commander, to deliver that message to the Bush administration. From the first days after Saddam’s attack on Kuwait, 236 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028084

…r the more profound political “disengagement” with the Palestinians which I’d long been advocating. He had endorsed the Bush Administration’s “road map” for resuming the peace process. Yet with Yasir Arafat ageing, ailing and even less inclined to consider the difficult decisions...

…nton has had a sexual problem for his entire life. People like the Clintons, Obamas, Bidens, Reids, Schumers, Boehners, Bushs, etc. can willingly, knowingly, & intentionally commit crimes with no recourse. The U.S. Supreme Court rules Obamacare is a tax, Most likely will make Hob...

…hat Syria without Assad would be better than with him. Second, for most U.S. presidents -- Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush being the exceptions -- Syria has served as a kind of unholy diplomatic grail. Since Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, U.S. policymakers had viewed the As...

…tember the 14th, 2001. And it’s still enforced. It has to be renewed every year. Obama did it every year just as George Bush renewed it every year. What are the roots of this? Well there are the legitimate roots that go back to fear of an atomic decapitation of the government ba...

…he Clinton administration. • Starr served as a federal Court of Appeals judge and as solicitor general for George H. W. Bush. • He received the most publicity for his tenure as independent counsel while Bill Clinton was U.S. president. • The three-judge panel charged with adminis...

…. The PLO had been founded with the aim of “liberating” every inch of Palestine. The fact that Arafat had agreed to the Bush Administration’s demand to accept the principle of land-for-peace struck Rabin as mere sleight-of-hand. By the third Oslo meeting, it was clear that the P...

…s now over foreseen ones later. This is not quite the same as the difference between birds in the hand and birds in the bush. That says that we value certainties over probabilities. Time preference also values Chapter 3: Foundations 1/11/16 3 present certainties over future certa...

… a headset while flying in a helicopter over Baghdad. To no one in particular, recalling a foolish and callow George W. Bush in flight gear on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln proclaiming the end of the Iraq War, he intoned, “Mission accomplished.” Gritting his teeth, Ba...

…ored force toward Kuwait’s border with Saudi Arabia, a key US regional ally, immediately prompting the President George Bush’s administration to go beyond mere verbal condemnation. With Saudi agreement, Washington dispatched a squadron of F-15s to the kingdom — the first step in...

…ail Mary pass will increase the federal budget (which has already expanded by $1.5 trillion in eight years under George Bush) by an additional $1 trillion -- in roughly his first 100 days in office. The current economic strategy is right out of "Atlas Shrugged": The more incompet...

…g the U.N.-demarcated border between the two countries, killing three Israeli soldiers, and kidnapping two more in an ambush. They came to the fore again two years later, when Hezbollah took over West Beirut by force of arms, turning its weapons of "resistance" against fellow Leb...

65 considered to be more favorably disposed to the Chinese government perspective and ensuring that those with challenging views are excluded. One analyst noted that former Hong Kong chief executive C.H. Tung’s and Fu’s relationships with US think- tank scholars and presidents...

One of Kushner’s now-frequent wise-men callers was Henry Kissinger. Kissinger, who had been a front-row witness when the bureaucracy and intelligence community revolted against Richard Nixon, outlined the kinds of mischief, and worse, that the new administration could face. “Dee...