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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>What Obama Might Learn from the Past: Bending History in the Direction of Justice</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/01/26/what-obama-might-learn-from-the-past-bending-history-in-the-direction-of-justice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is the nature of the political process that presidents campaign outside history and must then live within it. For Barack Obama, this meant promising a speedy withdrawal from Iraq, a stronger focus on defeating Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, firm but respectful relations with Russia and China, engagement with opponents like Iran, and progress with our [...]]]></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>Beware Presidents&#8217; Use of History</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/12/08/beware-presidents-use-of-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Prados</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are told that history plays as tragedy and repeats as farce. But perhaps that is changing. In the summer of 2007 President George W. Bush invoked the Vietnam analogy to justify an equally or more tragic war in Iraq. And in the West Point speech announcing his new strategy for Afghanistan, President Barack Obama [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cold War and Post-Cold War Worlds:  Continuities in Grand Strategy</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/03/06/the-cold-war-and-post-cold-war-worlds-continuities-in-grand-strategy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Stueck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the good fortune recently to participate in a conference at Duke University sponsored by the Triangle Institute for Strategic Studies. Each of the five sessions featured a paper on the reassessments of U.S. grand strategy that occurred in the aftermath of one of America&#8217;s wars from World War II to the present&#8211;World War II, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Digest &#8212; 2/5/09</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/02/05/weekly-digest-020509/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 02:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Regan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Historical thinking about current foreign relations:
China's Military Modernization.  Vietnam War Crimes.  U.S. Communications Embargo on Cuba.  America's position within the International Monetary Fund.  Will existing international financial agreements prevail?]]></description>
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		<title>Coming Soon to a Theater Near You</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/01/13/coming-soon-to-a-theater-near-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2009/01/13/coming-soon-to-a-theater-near-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kenneth Osgood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Why don&#8217;t we hear about the war anymore,&#8221; asked one of my students on the first day of my class on U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle  East.  When I answered with a question &#8211; &#8220;Which one?&#8221; &#8211; he looked bemused.  He obviously meant the war in Iraq.  The other war &#8211; the one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq, Afghanistan, and American Credibility: Historical Parallels, Part I</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/01/02/iraq-afghanistan-and-american-credibility-historical-parallels-part-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Stueck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the latest issue of Foreign Affairs, Robert M. Gates, the current and future U.S. secretary of defense, asserts that &#8220;to fail-or to be seen to fail-in either Iraq or Afghanistan would be a disastrous blow to U.S. credibility, both among friends and allies and among potential adversaries.&#8221; To historians of American foreign relations, the [...]]]></description>
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