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ideas are often stymied by an inexperienced White House that doesn’t
document IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024987.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…bama hands insist this is wrong. The only significant policy difference between the two principals, they note, was over Afghanistan, where the president’s policy hardly lacked boldness. On Egypt, it was Hillary who early on recommended caution and Obama who insisted that U.S. pol...

but — in the millions of years that encompass their evolutionary history, bonobos have remained virt
document IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012891.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…extinguish a culturally distinctive group. On one reading, President George W. Bush may well have initiated the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as retaliatory attacks on terrorists, designed to protect American interests and well-being. But he brought much of our nation on board by...

376 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet?
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016066.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

… Dan McLaughlin Astrological Clock, Hampton Court Lava Lamp Steve Jobs Collage “Ascending and Descending” Chapter 2 Afghanistan Stability/COIN Dynamics McChrystal in Kabul Gettysburg Address as PowerPoint Space Shuttle Columbia Crew Shuttle Tile Shuttle Images Searle's Ch...

Israel's Danger Will Come Only If A Great Power Seeks To Dominate The Mediterranean Basin Or To Occupy The Region Between Afghanistan And The Mediterranean. In The Short Period Since The Fall Of The Soviet Union
document Israel's danger will come only if a great power seeks to dominate the Mediterranean Basin or to occupy the region between Afghanistan and the Mediterranean. In the short period since the fall of the Soviet Union House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

this has been impossible. There has been no great power with the appetite and the will for such an adventure. But 15 years is not even a generation

The Rest Won't Overcome the West
document IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029947.txt Jul 1, 2011 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…wers, including South Africa, South Korea, and Turkey. Indeed, in the aftermath of the US military debacles in Iraq and Afghanistan, and especially since the financial meltdown and the ensuing Great Recession, small-time pundits as well as renowned futurologists have been predict...

the electorate. It does not reside with either of the two major political
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015334.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

… wars we have no chance of winning. All polite appeals to the formal systems of power will not end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We must physically obstruct the war machine or accept a role as its accomplice.” When it comes to bloodbaths, the only difference between such inv...

In re Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001, 392 F.Supp.2d 539 (2005)
document IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017916.txt Sep 11, 2001 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…usef, an Egyptian publication, in August 1998. The unidentified author writes that Islamic aid organizations located in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Somalia, and Tajikistan provided funds and cover to terrorists. (See Federal Mot. to Supplement Record on Prince Naif and Prince Salman, Ex...

They say that you can read a person’s feelings on his face. But if so, either
document TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027849.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…eting and halving.’” I said that in the wake of the Al-Qaeda attack on the Twin Towers, he had fired one shell long, in Afghanistan, and another one short, in Iraq. “But when the time came to hit the real target – Iran – it ended up you’d already spent two terms, and all your pol...

Breaking Down Democracy
document TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019233.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

… -15 -20 -25 Turkey Bahrain -25 Ethiopia -21 Azerbaijan Venezuela -17 -17 Hungary -16 Ecuador Russia Ukraine -12 -12 -12 Afghanistan -10 -30 -28 weakening of political pluralism. Russia has also moved aggressively against neighboring states where democratic institutions have emerg...

The Scowcroft Group
email IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026827.txt Nov 14, 2015 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

… and others likely face. Europe was believed to be at less risk, although as the flow of refugees from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan increased, that risk has risen. The US and everywhere else were thought to be tertiary targets, subject to opportunistic attacks but almost a dist...

Obama's signature is indeed that of the
document IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028680.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…resident's speech -- just one throwaway line about supporting Syria's opposition. Obama did not disengage from Iraq and Afghanistan only to plunge America into new black holes in the Middle East. Obama isn't worried about boots on the ground in Syria. That was never on the table...

The masters and preachers of terror had told their foot soldiers, and
document IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025018.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…ey 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, soon hit the Arab wor...

the recipients of their support advanced al-Qaeda’s activities -- despite plaintiffs’ detailed plead
document IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023376.txt Sep 11, 2001 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…n be a basis for a suit arising from the terrorist acts of September 11, 2001.” Id. The Court remanded the case against Afghanistan for jurisdictional discovery. Jd. at *20-21. The Court recognized that its holding conflicted with and abrogated the prior panel’s decision in Terr...

Exhibit 25: Conference Board Consumer
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014564.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…pondents 100 90 80 70 60 50 Beginning of Global Financial Crisis 40 30 20 War in Iraq September 11th iti War in Afghanistan 0 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 Data through December 2016. Note: The poll asks, “In general, are you satisfied or dissatisfi...