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		<title>Thinking about Remembering</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2010/03/22/thinking-about-remembering/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:53:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Molly Wood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I grew up in Richmond, Virginia, and even though I have not lived there for many years, I still visit regularly. I often think that my decision to become a historian stems in part from the stories of my family history told to me by grandparents and other relatives. I learned from my grandmother, for [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2010/01/26/lessons-for-late-baby-boomers/#comments</comments>
		<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>Weekly Digest &#8211; 10/19/09</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/10/19/weekly-digest-101909/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2009/10/19/weekly-digest-101909/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Ducote</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shafr.org/?p=1714</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the U.S. postpones a decision on Afghanistan, Gerald Posner reports on a new secret weapon in the arsenal of the Taliban and Al Qaeda: getting the Army addicted to their cheap heroin. [more]
President George H.W. Bush thought that after the victory in the Gulf war we had &#8220;kicked the Vietnam syndrome once and for [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2009/02/05/weekly-digest-020509/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 02:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Regan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shafr.org/?p=1003</guid>
		<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>A Prophecy of Class Warfare</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/01/19/a-prophecy-of-class-warfare/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2009/01/19/a-prophecy-of-class-warfare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>george white, jr.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush administration:  2001-2008]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ideology]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shafr.org/?p=924</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At this time of year, I usually find myself in an emotional and mental torment.  I love Martin Luther King, Jr.  I don&#8217;t love what we have done to him.  He has a secure place in my pantheon of heroes, next to folks like Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Bayard Rustin, Malcolm X, Patricia Hill Collins, and [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.shafr.org/?p=819</guid>
		<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 II</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/01/08/iraq-afghanistan-and-american-credibility-historical-parallels-part-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2009/01/08/iraq-afghanistan-and-american-credibility-historical-parallels-part-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Stueck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I signed off last week with the promise of more to come on the risk to American credibility worldwide of a U.S. failure, or even,  as Secretary of Defense Gates suggested, a perceived failure, in either Afghanistan or Iraq.  Gates has declared that either one would be &#8220;disastrous.&#8221;  I was in the process of examining the impact of the U.S. [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2009/01/02/iraq-afghanistan-and-american-credibility-historical-parallels-part-i/#comments</comments>
		<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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