Once again the international community has been stunned and surprised by the events in Syria that deposed and sent former President Bashar Assad and his family fleeing to Moscow. But what is new?

“I served aboard a ship in Vietnam, from which Adm. Stansfield Turner was the captain,” Walker said. “He and Jimmy Carter were roommates in Annapolis. He, being Stansfield Turner, spoke ...

Years later, in 1979, former CIA Director Admiral Stansfield Turner asked how could anyone have predicted that an aged, exiled mullah living in Paris could return to Iran. Who predicted that after ...