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		<title>The McChrystal Affair: Pity the Poor Historian</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/07/30/the-mcchrystal-affair-pity-the-poor-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crossposted from Michael Hunt&#8217;s Washington and the World blog.
There is good reason to pity the poor historian, who has been tested especially severely during the recent McChrystal-Obama imbroglio as the eruption of historical parallels and lessons have ranged from the wrong-headed to the off-kilter.
Henry Kissinger is a good example of the wrong-headed. This policy heavyweight, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Digest &#8211; 4/26/10</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/04/26/2286/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Ducote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Henry Sokolski argues that current U.S. political will to reduce nuclear dangers should be channeled into a practical set of control measures that are more likely to secure bipartisan support and can begin to be implemented without the legal consent of other states. [more]
How can the United States defend its national and commercial interests against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Digest &#8211; 4/6/2010</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/04/06/weekly-digest-462010/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2010/04/06/weekly-digest-462010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Ducote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month marked the 30th anniversary of Congress passing the Refugee Act. It’s a good time to examine gaps in our refugee policy, especially as we prepare for an influx of refugees from Darfur. [more]
The dew had barely dissipated from Barack Obama&#8217;s inaugural as the four senior men slipped into the Oval Office. The executive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Digest &#8211; 3/30/10</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/03/30/2258/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Ducote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been scanning through the news coverage of the Hutaree militia, nine of whose members were arrested by federal officials this week, and we&#8217;ve noticed an almost complete absence of the use of the words &#8220;terrorism&#8221; or &#8220;terrorist.&#8221; [more]
President Obama showed courage in going to Afghanistan to talk to the troops, but he’s just getting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Digest &#8211; 3/10/10</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/03/10/weekly-digest-31010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Ducote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four years after the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japanese cities, the Soviet Union explodes its first nuclear weapon at a test range in Kazakhstan. That the Soviet Union obtained &#8220;the bomb&#8221; is not surprising, but the timing of the test is. Most U.S. intelligence assessments at the time concluded Moscow was at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Digest &#8211; 2/22/2010</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/02/22/weekly-digest-2222010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Ducote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan War:  2001-present]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to Guantánamo, President Obama is still stuck. It’s clear the detention facility won’t close any time soon. That leaves many people, in and out of the administration, in the United States and overseas, wondering: What’s next for Guantánamo? [more]
Just how unpopular are President Barack Obama&#8217;s anti-terrorism policies with his Republican critics? Even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diplomats Among Warriors</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/02/16/diplomats-among-warriors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Prados</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Afghanistan at the moment (February 2010), U.S. Marines, allied troops, and Afghan government soldiers are embarked on an offensive at a town called Marja in Helmand province. American commander-in-chief General Stanley A. McChrystal here makes the first expression of the strategy that underlies the appeal for reinforcements that led to the Obama administration “surge” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Wartime a Time to End Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell?</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/02/16/is-wartime-a-time-to-end-dont-ask-dont-tell/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2010/02/16/is-wartime-a-time-to-end-dont-ask-dont-tell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Dudziak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the Obama Administration moves (slowly) toward repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, one argument in opposition is that the nation is at war, and significant changes in the military should not take place during wartime. One response to that point is that all hands are needed during heightened military deployments, and it harms American [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Digest &#8211; 2/8/10</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/02/08/weekly-digest-2810/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2010/02/08/weekly-digest-2810/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Ducote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama&#8217;s decision not to attend a planned summit between the United States and the EU in May&#8211;and the testy European reaction to that decision&#8211;underscores &#8220;the unrealistic expectations&#8221; that have been in play between Europe and the United States since Obama took office. [more]
Predictions of America’s decline are vastly overstated. Asia is indeed increasing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Foreign Policy: An Assessment After Year One &#8212; Introduction</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/01/26/obamas-foreign-policy-an-assessment-after-year-one-introduction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Johns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little over a year ago, I wrote an essay for this page that outlined some of the multitudinous foreign policy challenges that would face Barack Obama’s administration when it took office on 20 January 2009 (“Of Mice, Men, and Presidents,” December 2008).  During the past twelve months, the president and his national security team [...]]]></description>
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