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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>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>
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		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan War:  2001-present]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arms Control]]></category>
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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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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama administration:  2009-present]]></category>
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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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		<title>Lessons for Late Baby Boomers</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/01/26/lessons-for-late-baby-boomers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Zeiler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m eight months older than President Barack Obama, so we fall into the same generation.  Of course, the similarities end there, including his ascent to a slightly higher administrative level than I will ever reach.  Still, we share some things in common because we gained an awareness of the world around the same time, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Assessment of Obama&#8217;s First Year</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/01/26/an-assessment-of-obamas-first-year/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2010/01/26/an-assessment-of-obamas-first-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter Hixson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan War:  2001-present]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama administration:  2009-present]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cairo speech]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nobel prize]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Gates]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is, of course, still too early after one year to evaluate the foreign policy or the presidency of Barack Obama.  That said preliminary analysis illuminates both the best and the worst about American culture and the foreign policy that flows from it.
The best part is Obama himself.  This culture is not likely to produce [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Digest &#8212; 12/14/09</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/12/14/weekly-digest-121409/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2009/12/14/weekly-digest-121409/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Ducote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan War:  2001-present]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-War Efforts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Gordon Brown unveiled an eminently sensible proposal this week: to place a 50 percent tax on all bankers’ bonuses in his country. But another, even more sensible idea of his last month was shot down by other nations, notably the United States. [more]
President Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize speech Thursday is drawing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Digest &#8211; 12/7/09</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/12/07/weekly-digest-12709/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2009/12/07/weekly-digest-12709/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Ducote</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Consumerism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cultural Transfer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Trukey]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ If President Obama is looking for something that transcends the national divisions over healthcare reform and Afghanistan          policy, he might try isolationism. [more]
The Afghan surge makes military action against Iran less likely &#8212; and refutes the thesis that America wages war in the Muslim world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Digest 12/2/09</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/12/02/1800/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Ducote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan War:  2001-present]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-War Efforts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lyndon Johnson administration:  1963-1969]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guantanamo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the only nonfiction work of note to focus on the overlooked region where California and Mexico blur together in a mutation of the  American dream. It is one of the nation’s most productive farming areas but suffers perpetual poverty and 20 percent-plus unemployment, as well as intractable environmental problems. [more]
On Nov. 3, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan and the Chinese Civil War</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/11/12/afghanistan-and-the-chinese-civil-war/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2009/11/12/afghanistan-and-the-chinese-civil-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Stueck</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Central Asia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any political historian will tell you that government decisionmakers frequently use historical analogies in making up their minds and that, more often than not, they do so badly.   And Kimber Quinney reminded us in her thoughtful November 9 commentary that historians are not immune to employing such analogies either, or in doing so badly.
Yet as [...]]]></description>
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