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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>Germany to Greece: Drop Dead</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/03/08/germany-to-greece-drop-dead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Glenn Gray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Germans have chosen to work; Greeks have chosen leisure. For this reason, Germans are furious with Greece for accumulating an unsustainable debt burden and thereby undermining the solidity of the European currency. But the self-righteous anger in Berlin may itself call into question the political basis of the Euro.]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-War Efforts]]></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>
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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>
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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>
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		<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>Weekly Digest &#8212; 2/2/10</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/02/02/weekly-digest-2210/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Ducote</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[No longer are the US, Nato or Afghanistan&#8217;s neighbours talking about militarily defeating the Taliban, rebuilding the country from top to bottom or promoting democracy. [more]
The U.S. government this year will borrow one of every three dollars it spends, with many of those funds coming from foreign countries. That weakens America&#8217;s standing and its freedom to [...]]]></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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		<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>In the Shadow of Failure: Obama&#8217;s Quest for Constructive Engagement</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/01/26/in-the-shadow-of-failture-obamas-quest-for-constructive-engagement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cary Fraser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Barack Obama completes his first year in office, he faces challenges that will test his considerable political skills to the very limit. While many voted for Obama because was able to project an image of calm competence that was notably lacking in both John McCain and George W. Bush, the Wall Street crisis and [...]]]></description>
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