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<rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:taxo="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/taxonomy/" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" version="2.0"><channel><title>Jackson Diehl: Most Recent Articles and Archives</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl</link><description>Get the latest articles from Jackson Diehl articles and view preview articles in the Jackson Diehl archive from The Washington Post.</description><language>en</language><copyright>Copyright 2012 Washington Post Company</copyright><pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 18:41:32 GMT</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 18:41:32 GMT</lastBuildDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Jackson Diehl: Most Recent Articles and Archives</title><url>http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl</link></image><item><title>Republicans seek blame on Benghazi rather than solutions</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/2bd2f68b/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Copinions0Cjackson0Ediehl0Erepublicans0Eseek0Eblame0Eon0Ebenghazi0Erather0Ethan0Esolutions0C20A130C0A50C120C542164140Eb8bb0E11e20Eb94c0Eb684dda0A7add0Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Ijackson0Ediehl/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Remember the scandal of “the 16 words”? If you do, you’ve probably been inside the Beltway too long, literally or figuratively. If not, the quick version is this: A former ambassador named Joseph C. Wilson IV &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/06/opinion/what-i-didn-t-find-in-africa.html?pagewanted=all&amp;#38;src=pm"&gt;charged in 2003 &lt;/a&gt;that President George W. Bush had included in his State of the Union address a (16-word) allegation about Iraq that his top aides knew to be false — that Saddam Hussein had sought to purchase uranium from Niger. Wilson then amped up the ensuing partisan uproar by claiming there had been a White House conspiracy to punish him by deliberately blowing the cover of his CIA wife.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-republicans-seek-blame-on-benghazi-rather-than-solutions/2013/05/12/54216414-b8bb-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/2bd2f68b/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fopinions%2Fjackson-diehl-republicans-seek-blame-on-benghazi-rather-than-solutions%2F2013%2F05%2F12%2F54216414-b8bb-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_jackson-diehl&amp;t=Republicans+seek+blame+on+Benghazi+rather+than+solutions" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fopinions%2Fjackson-diehl-republicans-seek-blame-on-benghazi-rather-than-solutions%2F2013%2F05%2F12%2F54216414-b8bb-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_jackson-diehl&amp;t=Republicans+seek+blame+on+Benghazi+rather+than+solutions" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fopinions%2Fjackson-diehl-republicans-seek-blame-on-benghazi-rather-than-solutions%2F2013%2F05%2F12%2F54216414-b8bb-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_jackson-diehl&amp;t=Republicans+seek+blame+on+Benghazi+rather+than+solutions" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fopinions%2Fjackson-diehl-republicans-seek-blame-on-benghazi-rather-than-solutions%2F2013%2F05%2F12%2F54216414-b8bb-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_jackson-diehl&amp;t=Republicans+seek+blame+on+Benghazi+rather+than+solutions" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fopinions%2Fjackson-diehl-republicans-seek-blame-on-benghazi-rather-than-solutions%2F2013%2F05%2F12%2F54216414-b8bb-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_jackson-diehl&amp;t=Republicans+seek+blame+on+Benghazi+rather+than+solutions" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664409294/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/2bd2f68b/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165664409294/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/2bd2f68b/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165664409294/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/2bd2f68b/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">Jackson Diehl</category><category domain="">intelligence community</category><category domain="">Republican Party</category><pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 01:43:13 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-republicans-seek-blame-on-benghazi-rather-than-solutions/2013/05/12/54216414-b8bb-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl</guid><dc:creator>Jackson Diehl</dc:creator></item><item><title>Putin’s counterterrorism ‘help’ is more of a hindrance</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/2b47dd55/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Copinions0Cjackson0Ediehl0Erussia0Ea0Ecounterterrorism0Epartner0Ethe0Eus0Edoesnt0Eneed0C20A130C0A40C280C9ee20A90A20Eae810E11e20Ea9860Eeec837b1888b0Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Ijackson0Ediehl/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;“What, one might think, do the irrational acts of two young American citizens of Chechen origin have in common with the Syria war,” asked the Russian newspaper &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.ng.ru/"&gt;Nezavisimaya Gazeta ­&lt;/a&gt;in an editorial last week. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-russia-a-counterterrorism-partner-the-us-doesnt-need/2013/04/28/9ee20902-ae81-11e2-a986-eec837b1888b_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/2b47dd55/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fopinions%2Fjackson-diehl-russia-a-counterterrorism-partner-the-us-doesnt-need%2F2013%2F04%2F28%2F9ee20902-ae81-11e2-a986-eec837b1888b_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_jackson-diehl&amp;t=Putin%E2%80%99s+counterterrorism+%E2%80%98help%E2%80%99+is+more+of+a+hindrance" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fopinions%2Fjackson-diehl-russia-a-counterterrorism-partner-the-us-doesnt-need%2F2013%2F04%2F28%2F9ee20902-ae81-11e2-a986-eec837b1888b_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_jackson-diehl&amp;t=Putin%E2%80%99s+counterterrorism+%E2%80%98help%E2%80%99+is+more+of+a+hindrance" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fopinions%2Fjackson-diehl-russia-a-counterterrorism-partner-the-us-doesnt-need%2F2013%2F04%2F28%2F9ee20902-ae81-11e2-a986-eec837b1888b_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_jackson-diehl&amp;t=Putin%E2%80%99s+counterterrorism+%E2%80%98help%E2%80%99+is+more+of+a+hindrance" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fopinions%2Fjackson-diehl-russia-a-counterterrorism-partner-the-us-doesnt-need%2F2013%2F04%2F28%2F9ee20902-ae81-11e2-a986-eec837b1888b_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_jackson-diehl&amp;t=Putin%E2%80%99s+counterterrorism+%E2%80%98help%E2%80%99+is+more+of+a+hindrance" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fopinions%2Fjackson-diehl-russia-a-counterterrorism-partner-the-us-doesnt-need%2F2013%2F04%2F28%2F9ee20902-ae81-11e2-a986-eec837b1888b_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_jackson-diehl&amp;t=Putin%E2%80%99s+counterterrorism+%E2%80%98help%E2%80%99+is+more+of+a+hindrance" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/164016705186/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/2b47dd55/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/164016705186/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/2b47dd55/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/164016705186/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/2b47dd55/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">Jackson Diehl</category><category domain="">security forces</category><category domain="">Twitter</category><pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 23:52:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-russia-a-counterterrorism-partner-the-us-doesnt-need/2013/04/28/9ee20902-ae81-11e2-a986-eec837b1888b_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl</guid><dc:creator>Jackson Diehl</dc:creator></item><item><title>In Iraq, an Kurdish renaissance</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/2ab67cf4/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Copinions0Cjackson0Ediehl0Eiraqi0Ekurdistan0Ein0Ebloom0C20A130C0A40C140C90Aca6cb0A0Ea2c90E11e20E82bc0E511538ae90Aa40Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Ijackson0Ediehl/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;By now it’s obvious that “spring” is the wrong description of the political turmoil and civil war that have followed the Arab revolutions of 2011. But for one nation in the Middle East, it’s beginning to look like freedom and prosperity just might be blooming. “People are beginning to talk about the Kurdish Spring, not the Arab Spring,” says a grinning Fuad Hussein, a senior official in the government of Iraqi Kurdistan.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-iraqi-kurdistan-in-bloom/2013/04/14/90ca6cb0-a2c9-11e2-82bc-511538ae90a4_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/2ab67cf4/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fopinions%2Fjackson-diehl-iraqi-kurdistan-in-bloom%2F2013%2F04%2F14%2F90ca6cb0-a2c9-11e2-82bc-511538ae90a4_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_jackson-diehl&amp;t=In+Iraq%2C+an+Kurdish+renaissance" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fopinions%2Fjackson-diehl-iraqi-kurdistan-in-bloom%2F2013%2F04%2F14%2F90ca6cb0-a2c9-11e2-82bc-511538ae90a4_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_jackson-diehl&amp;t=In+Iraq%2C+an+Kurdish+renaissance" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fopinions%2Fjackson-diehl-iraqi-kurdistan-in-bloom%2F2013%2F04%2F14%2F90ca6cb0-a2c9-11e2-82bc-511538ae90a4_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_jackson-diehl&amp;t=In+Iraq%2C+an+Kurdish+renaissance" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fopinions%2Fjackson-diehl-iraqi-kurdistan-in-bloom%2F2013%2F04%2F14%2F90ca6cb0-a2c9-11e2-82bc-511538ae90a4_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_jackson-diehl&amp;t=In+Iraq%2C+an+Kurdish+renaissance" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fopinions%2Fjackson-diehl-iraqi-kurdistan-in-bloom%2F2013%2F04%2F14%2F90ca6cb0-a2c9-11e2-82bc-511538ae90a4_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_jackson-diehl&amp;t=In+Iraq%2C+an+Kurdish+renaissance" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/163323509802/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/2ab67cf4/kg/342/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/163323509802/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/2ab67cf4/kg/342/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/163323509802/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/2ab67cf4/kg/342/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">Jackson Diehl</category><category domain="">chemical weapons</category><category domain="">Twitter</category><pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 23:51:27 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-iraqi-kurdistan-in-bloom/2013/04/14/90ca6cb0-a2c9-11e2-82bc-511538ae90a4_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl</guid><dc:creator>Jackson Diehl</dc:creator></item><item><title>What the Iraq war taught me about Syria</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/2a3160fa/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Copinions0Cjackson0Ediehl0Ewhat0Ethe0Eiraq0Ewar0Etaught0Eme0Eabout0Esyria0C20A130C0A30C310C5ef2e6d0A0E97b20E11e20E814b0E0A63623d80Aa60A0Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Ijackson0Ediehl/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;The 10th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq has prompted plenty of analysis of the mistakes made there, along with a few tendentious claims that “the same people” who supported war in Iraq are now pressing for U.S. intervention in Syria. I’m one of those people. So, to&lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/not-heeding-the-lessons-of-war/2013/03/25/d353c382-9307-11e2-ba5b-550c7abf6384_story.html"&gt; paraphrase the polemicists&lt;/a&gt;: Did I learn nothing from the last decade? Do I want to repeat the Iraq “fiasco”?&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-what-the-iraq-war-taught-me-about-syria/2013/03/31/5ef2e6d0-97b2-11e2-814b-063623d80a60_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/2a3160fa/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/viral/sendEmail.cfm?lang=en&amp;title=What+the+Iraq+war+taught+me+about+Syria&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fopinions%2Fjackson-diehl-what-the-iraq-war-taught-me-about-syria%2F2013%2F03%2F31%2F5ef2e6d0-97b2-11e2-814b-063623d80a60_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_jackson-diehl" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/161991104122/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/2a3160fa/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/161991104122/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/2a3160fa/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/161991104122/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/2a3160fa/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">Jackson Diehl</category><category domain="">Twitter</category><category domain="">humanitarian aid</category><pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 23:46:04 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-what-the-iraq-war-taught-me-about-syria/2013/03/31/5ef2e6d0-97b2-11e2-814b-063623d80a60_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl</guid><dc:creator>Jackson Diehl</dc:creator></item><item><title>Who will stand up for Oswaldo Payá?</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/29ad246a/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Copinions0Cjackson0Ediehl0Eoswaldo0Epayas0Edeath0Egoes0Eignored0C20A130C0A30C170C1a60A130A40E8ccb0E11e20Eb63f0Ef53fb9f2fcb40Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Ijackson0Ediehl/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Two weeks ago a brave young leader of Spain’s ruling Popular Party stepped forward to &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/angel-carromero-speaks-out-on-cuba-crash-that-killed-oswaldo-paya/2013/03/05/1080077a-85b6-11e2-98a3-b3db6b9ac586_story.html"&gt;offer a sensational, firsthand account &lt;/a&gt;of how one of Cuba’s leading dissidents, Oswaldo Payá, was killed last summer. Ángel Carromero said a car that he was driving in which Payá was a passenger was rammed from behind by a vehicle bearing official Cuban license plates. He said he was then jailed in inhuman conditions, drugged and threatened by Cuban authorities with death if he did not tell a false story about what happened.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-oswaldo-payas-death-goes-ignored/2013/03/17/1a601304-8ccb-11e2-b63f-f53fb9f2fcb4_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/29ad246a/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/viral/sendEmail.cfm?lang=en&amp;title=Who+will+stand+up+for+Oswaldo+Pay%C3%A1%3F&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fopinions%2Fjackson-diehl-oswaldo-payas-death-goes-ignored%2F2013%2F03%2F17%2F1a601304-8ccb-11e2-b63f-f53fb9f2fcb4_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_jackson-diehl" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/158921402403/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/29ad246a/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/158921402403/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/29ad246a/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/158921402403/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/29ad246a/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">Jackson Diehl</category><category domain="">Spanish Government</category><pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 23:57:04 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-oswaldo-payas-death-goes-ignored/2013/03/17/1a601304-8ccb-11e2-b63f-f53fb9f2fcb4_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl</guid><dc:creator>Jackson Diehl</dc:creator></item><item><title>The end of a human rights heavyweight?</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/29292306/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Copinions0Cjackson0Ediehl0Ewill0Ethe0Einter0Eamerican0Ecommission0Eon0Ehuman0Erights0Ebe0Egutted0C20A130C0A30C0A30Cc0A18f9a60E81d0A0E11e20Eb99e0E6baf4ebe42df0Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Ijackson0Ediehl/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;How are liberal institutions destroyed? These days, no military coup is necessary. Instead, cynical and determined rulers aim to corrupt rather than abolish independent courts, legislatures and media — and their defenders are too divided, too weak or too distracted to respond effectively.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-will-the-inter-american-commission-on-human-rights-be-gutted/2013/03/03/c018f9a6-81d0-11e2-b99e-6baf4ebe42df_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/29292306/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/viral/sendEmail.cfm?lang=en&amp;title=The+end+of+a+human+rights+heavyweight%3F&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fopinions%2Fjackson-diehl-will-the-inter-american-commission-on-human-rights-be-gutted%2F2013%2F03%2F03%2Fc018f9a6-81d0-11e2-b99e-6baf4ebe42df_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_jackson-diehl" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/158920288495/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/29292306/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/158920288495/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/29292306/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/158920288495/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/29292306/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">Jackson Diehl</category><category domain="">civil society</category><category domain="">Inter-American Commission on Human Rights</category><pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:45:10 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-will-the-inter-american-commission-on-human-rights-be-gutted/2013/03/03/c018f9a6-81d0-11e2-b99e-6baf4ebe42df_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl</guid><dc:creator>Jackson Diehl</dc:creator></item><item><title>Bahrain’s chance for compromise</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/28aa45ff/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Copinions0Cjackson0Ediehl0Ebahrains0Echance0Efor0Ecompromise0C20A130C0A20C170C44a0A2ff60E76cc0E11e20Eaa120Ee6cf1d3110A6b0Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Ijackson0Ediehl/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Two years after the Arab revolutions began, the Middle East is more polarized than it has been in modern times — but the divide is no longer between dictators and democrats. Instead, politics in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya has become a battle between secular and Islamic forces, while in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and the Persian Gulf, Sunni Muslims face off against Shiites. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-bahrains-chance-for-compromise/2013/02/17/44a02ff6-76cc-11e2-aa12-e6cf1d31106b_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/28aa45ff/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/viral/sendEmail.cfm?lang=en&amp;title=Bahrain%E2%80%99s+chance+for+compromise&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fopinions%2Fjackson-diehl-bahrains-chance-for-compromise%2F2013%2F02%2F17%2F44a02ff6-76cc-11e2-aa12-e6cf1d31106b_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_jackson-diehl" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/158365813191/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/28aa45ff/kg/342/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/158365813191/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/28aa45ff/kg/342/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/158365813191/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/28aa45ff/kg/342/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">Jackson Diehl</category><category domain="">Twitter</category><category domain="">political party</category><pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:59:33 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-bahrains-chance-for-compromise/2013/02/17/44a02ff6-76cc-11e2-aa12-e6cf1d31106b_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl</guid><dc:creator>Jackson Diehl</dc:creator></item><item><title>Static at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/2831e713/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Copinions0Cjackson0Ediehl0Estatic0Eat0Eradio0Efree0Eeuroperadio0Eliberty0C20A130C0A20C0A30C1d8acfc20E6bcb0E11e20Eada0A0E5ca5fa7ebe790Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Ijackson0Ediehl/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;In the past few months Vladimir Putin has terminated the work in Russia of the U.S. Agency for International Development, ended American adoptions of Russian children and, most damagingly, drastically reduced the audience and credibility of U.S. broadcaster Radio Liberty, driving a wedge between it and some of Russia’s most renowned human rights activists and journalists.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-static-at-radio-free-europeradio-liberty/2013/02/03/1d8acfc2-6bcb-11e2-ada0-5ca5fa7ebe79_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/2831e713/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/viral/sendEmail.cfm?lang=en&amp;title=Static+at+Radio+Free+Europe%2FRadio+Liberty&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fopinions%2Fjackson-diehl-static-at-radio-free-europeradio-liberty%2F2013%2F02%2F03%2F1d8acfc2-6bcb-11e2-ada0-5ca5fa7ebe79_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_jackson-diehl" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/155984793315/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/2831e713/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/155984793315/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/2831e713/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/155984793315/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/2831e713/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">entertainment industry</category><category domain="">Voice of America</category><category domain="">Mikhail Gorbachev</category><pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2013 23:20:43 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-static-at-radio-free-europeradio-liberty/2013/02/03/1d8acfc2-6bcb-11e2-ada0-5ca5fa7ebe79_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl</guid><dc:creator>Jackson Diehl</dc:creator></item><item><title>Chavez is not going quietly</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/27b8267a/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Copinions0Cjackson0Ediehl0Echavez0Eis0Enot0Egoing0Equietly0C20A130C0A10C20A0C9c31aa6a0E60Abf0E11e20E9940A0E6fc488f3fecd0Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Ijackson0Ediehl/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Imagine that Barack Obama failed to appear for his &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/inauguration"&gt;swearing-in Monday&lt;/a&gt; — and had not been seen or heard from in a month. Imagine that Vice President Biden informed the nation that Obama, though sequestered in a foreign hospital, would remain president and would be sworn in at some unspecified date. Suppose that requests by Republicans for information on the president’s condition were rejected, even as Biden and leading Democrats huddled with foreign leaders to discuss a possible transition.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-chavez-is-not-going-quietly/2013/01/20/9c31aa6a-60bf-11e2-9940-6fc488f3fecd_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/27b8267a/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/viral/sendEmail.cfm?lang=en&amp;title=Chavez+is+not+going+quietly&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fopinions%2Fjackson-diehl-chavez-is-not-going-quietly%2F2013%2F01%2F20%2F9c31aa6a-60bf-11e2-9940-6fc488f3fecd_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_jackson-diehl" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/155984108562/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/27b8267a/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/155984108562/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/27b8267a/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/155984108562/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/27b8267a/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">Hugo Chávez</category><category domain="">presidential election</category><category domain="">Venezuela</category><category domain="">Republican Party</category><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:49:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-chavez-is-not-going-quietly/2013/01/20/9c31aa6a-60bf-11e2-9940-6fc488f3fecd_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl</guid><dc:creator>Jackson Diehl</dc:creator></item><item><title>Wading into the Middle East morass</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/27403367/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Copinions0Cjackson0Ediehl0Ewading0Einto0Ethe0Emiddle0Eeast0Emorass0C20A130C0A10C0A60C8879ec840E55c60E11e20E8b9e0Edd8773594efc0Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Ijackson0Ediehl/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;On his second day in office in 2009, Barack Obama &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/22/us/politics/22diplo.html?_r=0"&gt;launched an ambitious effort&lt;/a&gt; to broker peace in the Middle East, ignoring warnings that neither Israelis nor Palestinians were ready for a deal. He was badly burned. Despite the appointment of former senator George Mitchell as an envoy and plenty of direct presidential involvement, the initiative flopped. Israelis and Palestinians never began substantial negotiations, and Obama’s first term ended with another &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/15/world/meast/gaza-israel-strike/index.html"&gt;mini-war in the Gaza Strip&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-wading-into-the-middle-east-morass/2013/01/06/8879ec84-55c6-11e2-8b9e-dd8773594efc_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/27403367/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/viral/sendEmail.cfm?lang=en&amp;title=Wading+into+the+Middle+East+morass&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fopinions%2Fjackson-diehl-wading-into-the-middle-east-morass%2F2013%2F01%2F06%2F8879ec84-55c6-11e2-8b9e-dd8773594efc_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_jackson-diehl" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/151540330746/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/27403367/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/151540330746/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/27403367/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/151540330746/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/27403367/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:42:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-wading-into-the-middle-east-morass/2013/01/06/8879ec84-55c6-11e2-8b9e-dd8773594efc_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl</guid><dc:creator>Jackson Diehl</dc:creator></item><item><title>Will 2013 see action on Iran’s nuclear program?</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/26e36035/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Copinions0Cjackson0Ediehl0Ewill0E20A130Esee0Eaction0Eirans0Enuclear0Eprogram0C20A120C120C230C197490Ac20E4ab40E11e20Eb70A90E6670A35ff90A290Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Ijackson0Ediehl/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Back at the beginning of 2006, Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/29/AR2006012900687.html"&gt;made waves in Washington&lt;/a&gt; by predicting that the United States could ultimately have to choose between allowing Iran to go nuclear and taking military action to stop it. Pretty much every year since then, someone’s New Year’s forecast has had that fateful choice finally coming before the president.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-will-2013-see-action-irans-nuclear-program/2012/12/23/197490c2-4ab4-11e2-b709-667035ff9029_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/26e36035/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/viral/sendEmail.cfm?lang=en&amp;title=Will+2013+see+action+on+Iran%E2%80%99s+nuclear+program%3F&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fopinions%2Fjackson-diehl-will-2013-see-action-irans-nuclear-program%2F2012%2F12%2F23%2F197490c2-4ab4-11e2-b709-667035ff9029_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_jackson-diehl" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/151539831987/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/26e36035/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/151539831987/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/26e36035/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/151539831987/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/26e36035/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2012 01:17:46 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-will-2013-see-action-irans-nuclear-program/2012/12/23/197490c2-4ab4-11e2-b709-667035ff9029_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl</guid><dc:creator>Jackson Diehl</dc:creator></item><item><title>Watching Syria’s descent</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/266e3eab/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Copinions0Cjackson0Ediehl0Ewatching0Esyria0Edescend0C20A120C120C0A90C48eed5c60E3fd10E11e20Eae430Ecf491b837f7b0Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Ijackson0Ediehl/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;The scariest thing about Syria, from the West’s point of view, may be the gap between the hair-raising scenarios senior officials are discussing about what may happen next and their limp strategies for preventing it.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-watching-syria-descend/2012/12/09/48eed5c6-3fd1-11e2-ae43-cf491b837f7b_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/266e3eab/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/viral/sendEmail.cfm?lang=en&amp;title=Watching+Syria%E2%80%99s+descent&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fopinions%2Fjackson-diehl-watching-syria-descend%2F2012%2F12%2F09%2F48eed5c6-3fd1-11e2-ae43-cf491b837f7b_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_jackson-diehl" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/151539204520/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/266e3eab/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/151539204520/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/266e3eab/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/151539204520/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/266e3eab/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">Jackson Diehl</category><category domain="">chemical weapons</category><category domain="">Al-Qaeda</category><pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:49:41 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-watching-syria-descend/2012/12/09/48eed5c6-3fd1-11e2-ae43-cf491b837f7b_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl</guid><dc:creator>Jackson Diehl</dc:creator></item><item><title>Lessons from Gaza</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/25f39229/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Copinions0Cjackson0Ediehl0Elessons0Efrom0Egaza0C20A120C110C250C129610Abc0E35a30E11e20Ebfd50Ee20A2b6d7b50A10Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Ijackson0Ediehl/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;When Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to a cease-fire with Hamas rather than a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, he surely knew that his opposition would taunt him with these &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/08/AR2009020801708.html"&gt;words from 2009&lt;/a&gt;: “We must smash the Hamas power in Gaza,” he said then. “The next government will have no choice but to finish the job and uproot &lt;span&gt;. . .&lt;/span&gt; the Iranian terror base.”&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-lessons-from-gaza/2012/11/25/129610bc-35a3-11e2-bfd5-e202b6d7b501_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/25f39229/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/viral/sendEmail.cfm?lang=en&amp;title=Lessons+from+Gaza&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fopinions%2Fjackson-diehl-lessons-from-gaza%2F2012%2F11%2F25%2F129610bc-35a3-11e2-bfd5-e202b6d7b501_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_jackson-diehl" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/151488544398/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/25f39229/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/151488544398/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/25f39229/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/151488544398/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/25f39229/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">Jackson Diehl</category><category domain="">economic sanctions</category><category domain="">International Monetary Fund</category><pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:41:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-lessons-from-gaza/2012/11/25/129610bc-35a3-11e2-bfd5-e202b6d7b501_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl</guid><dc:creator>Jackson Diehl</dc:creator></item><item><title>The red flags in Obama’s foreign policy</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/257aec94/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Copinions0Cjackson0Ediehl0Ethe0Ered0Eflags0Ein0Eobamas0Eforeign0Epolicy0C20A120C110C110C4bd56f3c0E29cb0E11e20E96b60E8e6a7524553f0Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Ijackson0Ediehl/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Barack Obama spent his first term undoing what he saw as the excesses of U.S. post-Cold War foreign policy, from land wars in the Middle East to insufficient attention to Asia. By his own account, he largely succeeded. But chances are he will spend his second term grappling with the flaws in his cure.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-the-red-flags-in-obamas-foreign-policy/2012/11/11/4bd56f3c-29cb-11e2-96b6-8e6a7524553f_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/257aec94/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/viral/sendEmail.cfm?lang=en&amp;title=The+red+flags+in+Obama%E2%80%99s+foreign+policy&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fopinions%2Fjackson-diehl-the-red-flags-in-obamas-foreign-policy%2F2012%2F11%2F11%2F4bd56f3c-29cb-11e2-96b6-8e6a7524553f_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_jackson-diehl" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/148659319643/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/257aec94/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/148659319643/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/257aec94/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/148659319643/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/257aec94/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">Central Intelligence Agency</category><category domain="">Jackson Diehl</category><category domain="">terrorist attack</category><pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:54:48 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-the-red-flags-in-obamas-foreign-policy/2012/11/11/4bd56f3c-29cb-11e2-96b6-8e6a7524553f_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl</guid><dc:creator>Jackson Diehl</dc:creator></item><item><title>A jihadist group prospers in Syria</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/24fa391f/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Copinions0Cjackson0Ediehl0Ea0Ejihadist0Egroup0Eprospers0Ein0Esyria0C20A120C10A0C280Cc0A36128a0E1ed80E11e20Eba310E30A83ca97c3140Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Ijackson0Ediehl/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;For more than a year, the Obama administration has been assuring the world that the downfall of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is “&lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jJbh4mpdOgOOgSHRUDtwqAeNszvQ?docId=CNG.cc5f76b56ab63ced6a0bd74dc8327e47.61"&gt;a matter of time&lt;/a&gt;.” Yes, its own Middle East experts warned, but how much time matters. The longer the fighting goes on, they said, the more likely it is that what began as a peaceful mass opposition movement would be &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/25/world/middleeast/al-qaeda-insinuating-its-way-into-syrias-conflict.html?pagewanted=all"&gt;hijacked by extremists&lt;/a&gt;, including allies of al-Qaeda.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-a-jihadist-group-prospers-in-syria/2012/10/28/c036128a-1ed8-11e2-ba31-3083ca97c314_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/24fa391f/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/viral/sendEmail.cfm?lang=en&amp;title=A+jihadist+group+prospers+in+Syria&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fopinions%2Fjackson-diehl-a-jihadist-group-prospers-in-syria%2F2012%2F10%2F28%2Fc036128a-1ed8-11e2-ba31-3083ca97c314_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_jackson-diehl" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/148658772884/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/24fa391f/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/148658772884/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/24fa391f/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/148658772884/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/24fa391f/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">Jackson Diehl</category><category domain="">chemical weapons</category><category domain="">YouTube</category><pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2012 23:55:08 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-a-jihadist-group-prospers-in-syria/2012/10/28/c036128a-1ed8-11e2-ba31-3083ca97c314_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl</guid><dc:creator>Jackson Diehl</dc:creator></item><item><title>How Obama bungled the Syrian revolution</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/2478063c/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Copinions0Cjackson0Ediehl0Ehow0Eobama0Ebungled0Ethe0Esyrian0Erevolution0C20A120C10A0C140C13c492d20E13b20E11e20Ebe820Ec3411b7680Aa90Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Ijackson0Ediehl/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Mitt Romney and congressional Republicans are doing their best to portray the assault on the U.S. mission in Libya and its aftermath as a signal foreign policy disaster for Barack Obama. But my bet is that when historians look back on Obama’s mistakes in the last four years, they will focus on something entirely different: his catastrophic mishandling of the revolution in Syria.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-how-obama-bungled-the-syrian-revolution/2012/10/14/13c492d2-13b2-11e2-be82-c3411b7680a9_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/2478063c/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/viral/sendEmail.cfm?lang=en&amp;title=How+Obama+bungled+the+Syrian+revolution&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fopinions%2Fjackson-diehl-how-obama-bungled-the-syrian-revolution%2F2012%2F10%2F14%2F13c492d2-13b2-11e2-be82-c3411b7680a9_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_jackson-diehl" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/144544902441/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/2478063c/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/144544902441/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/2478063c/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/144544902441/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/2478063c/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">Jackson Diehl</category><category domain="">security forces</category><category domain="">United Nations</category><pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 00:00:23 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-how-obama-bungled-the-syrian-revolution/2012/10/14/13c492d2-13b2-11e2-be82-c3411b7680a9_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl</guid><dc:creator>Jackson Diehl</dc:creator></item><item><title>A deeply polarizing election in Georgia</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/23fb6628/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Copinions0Cjackson0Ediehl0Ea0Edeeply0Epolarizing0Eelection0Ein0Egeorgia0C20A120C0A90C30A0C77a0Ab1dc0E0Ab240E11e20Ebb5e0E492c0Ad30Abff60Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Ijackson0Ediehl/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;TBILISI, Georgia&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Something extraordinary is happening here Monday, in a region where autocracy is the norm: a genuinely competitive national election. What remains to be seen is whether it will propel Georgia toward the Western-style liberal democracy the United States has been trying to promote here for the past eight years — or plunge it into violent political turmoil.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-a-deeply-polarizing-election-in-georgia/2012/09/30/77a0b1dc-0b24-11e2-bb5e-492c0d30bff6_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/23fb6628/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/viral/sendEmail.cfm?lang=en&amp;title=A+deeply+polarizing+election+in+Georgia&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fopinions%2Fjackson-diehl-a-deeply-polarizing-election-in-georgia%2F2012%2F09%2F30%2F77a0b1dc-0b24-11e2-bb5e-492c0d30bff6_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_jackson-diehl" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/144544174419/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/23fb6628/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/144544174419/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/23fb6628/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/144544174419/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/23fb6628/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">U S State Department</category><category domain="">Jackson Diehl</category><category domain="">foreign aid</category><pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2012 23:53:05 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-a-deeply-polarizing-election-in-georgia/2012/09/30/77a0b1dc-0b24-11e2-bb5e-492c0d30bff6_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl</guid><dc:creator>Jackson Diehl</dc:creator></item><item><title>The Oswaldo Payá mystery continues</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/237cd82e/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Copinions0Cjackson0Ediehl0Ethe0Edrama0Earound0Ecuban0Edissident0Eoswaldo0Epaya0Ejackson0Ediehl0Es0Edeath0C20A120C0A90C160C33f681f20Efdc60E11e10Eb1530E21850A9a954e10Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Ijackson0Ediehl/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;On the evening of July 22, a string of revealing text messages and phone calls circulated between Cuba, Sweden and Spain and back to Cuba — where &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/23/world/americas/oswaldo-paya-60-cuban-human-rights-fighter-dies.html"&gt;Oswaldo Payá&lt;/a&gt;, one of the country’s bravest and most influential dissidents, was lying dead on a rural highway. That, anyway, is the story of Regis Iglesias Ramirez, an associate of Payá and former political prisoner who says he is determined to expose what he believes was a state-sponsored murder.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-the-drama-around-cuban-dissident-oswaldo-paya-jackson-diehl-s-death/2012/09/16/33f681f2-fdc6-11e1-b153-218509a954e1_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/237cd82e/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/viral/sendEmail.cfm?lang=en&amp;title=The+Oswaldo+Pay%C3%A1+mystery+continues&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fopinions%2Fjackson-diehl-the-drama-around-cuban-dissident-oswaldo-paya-jackson-diehl-s-death%2F2012%2F09%2F16%2F33f681f2-fdc6-11e1-b153-218509a954e1_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_jackson-diehl" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/144544174415/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/237cd82e/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/144544174415/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/237cd82e/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/144544174415/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/237cd82e/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">Jackson Diehl</category><category domain="">Hyundai Motor Company</category><category domain="">conspiracy theory</category><pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2012 23:40:03 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-the-drama-around-cuban-dissident-oswaldo-paya-jackson-diehl-s-death/2012/09/16/33f681f2-fdc6-11e1-b153-218509a954e1_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl</guid><dc:creator>Jackson Diehl</dc:creator></item><item><title>Understanding Obama’s and Romney’s foreign policy differences</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/22ff1fc5/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Copinions0Cjackson0Ediehl0Eunderstanding0Eobamas0Eand0Eromneys0Eforeign0Epolicy0Edifferences0C20A120C0A90C0A20Cacf753180Ef2c40E11e10E892d0Ebc92fee60A3a70Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Ijackson0Ediehl/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;This presidential election will likely determine whether the United States and Russia undertake a major new reduction of nuclear weapons; whether U.S. arms are supplied to Syrian rebels; whether more U.S. troops are withdrawn from Afghanistan next year; and whether Washington renews pressure on Israel to accept terms for a Palestinian state. It could significantly lower the threshold for a U.S. military strike against Iran.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-understanding-obamas-and-romneys-foreign-policy-differences/2012/09/02/acf75318-f2c4-11e1-892d-bc92fee603a7_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/22ff1fc5/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/viral/sendEmail.cfm?lang=en&amp;title=Understanding+Obama%E2%80%99s+and+Romney%E2%80%99s+foreign+policy+differences&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fopinions%2Fjackson-diehl-understanding-obamas-and-romneys-foreign-policy-differences%2F2012%2F09%2F02%2Facf75318-f2c4-11e1-892d-bc92fee603a7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_jackson-diehl" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/144544174408/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/22ff1fc5/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/144544174408/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/22ff1fc5/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/144544174408/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/22ff1fc5/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">Medicare</category><category domain="">rnclive</category><category domain="">Jackson Diehl</category><category domain="">nuclear arms</category><pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2012 23:36:25 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-understanding-obamas-and-romneys-foreign-policy-differences/2012/09/02/acf75318-f2c4-11e1-892d-bc92fee603a7_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl</guid><dc:creator>Jackson Diehl</dc:creator></item><item><title>Obama and Romney are ignoring the Afghanistan war</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/22146dfd/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Copinions0Cjackson0Ediehl0Eobama0Eand0Eromney0Eare0Eignoring0Ethe0Eafghanistan0Ewar0C20A110C0A30C0A10CgJQA6Kh0AUX0Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Ijackson0Ediehl/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Here’s some news that both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney would like you to ignore: Tens of thousands of American soldiers are at war this summer in Afghanistan.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Though you’d never know it from listening to the candidates, U.S. Marine and Army units have been fighting hard against the Afghan Taliban across the south and east of the country. They are taking considerable casualties. In July, according to the Web site icasualties.org, &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://icasualties.org/OEF/index.aspx"&gt;46 American and coalition troops were killed&lt;/a&gt; — the highest total since last September. Six more died in the first few days of August.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-obama-and-romney-are-ignoring-the-afghanistan-war/2012/08/03/7aae16f4-dcca-11e1-8e43-4a3c4375504a_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/22146dfd/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/viral/sendEmail.cfm?lang=en&amp;title=Obama+and+Romney+are+ignoring+the+Afghanistan+war&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fopinions%2Fjackson-diehl-obama-and-romney-are-ignoring-the-afghanistan-war%2F2011%2F03%2F01%2FgJQA6Kh0UX_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_jackson-diehl" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/144544174401/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/22146dfd/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/144544174401/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/22146dfd/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/144544174401/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/22146dfd/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">Mitt Romney</category><category domain="">Afghan Army</category><category domain="">roadside bomb</category><pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2012 20:17:25 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-obama-and-romney-are-ignoring-the-afghanistan-war/2011/03/01/gJQA6Kh0UX_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl</guid><dc:creator>Jackson Diehl</dc:creator></item><item><title>Obama and Romney are ignoring the Afghanistan war</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/220e981c/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Copinions0Cjackson0Ediehl0Eobama0Eand0Eromney0Eare0Eignoring0Ethe0Eafghanistan0Ewar0C20A120C0A10C220CgJQA6Kh0AUX0Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Ijackson0Ediehl/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Here’s some news that both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney would like you to ignore: Tens of thousands of American soldiers are at war this summer in Afghanistan.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Though you’d never know it from listening to the candidates, U.S. Marine and Army units have been fighting hard against the Afghan Taliban across the south and east of the country. They are taking considerable casualties. In July, according to the Web site icasualties.org, &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://icasualties.org/OEF/index.aspx"&gt;46 American and coalition troops were killed&lt;/a&gt; — the highest total since last September. Six more died in the first few days of August.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-obama-and-romney-are-ignoring-the-afghanistan-war/2012/08/03/7aae16f4-dcca-11e1-8e43-4a3c4375504a_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/220e981c/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/viral/sendEmail.cfm?lang=en&amp;title=Obama+and+Romney+are+ignoring+the+Afghanistan+war&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fopinions%2Fjackson-diehl-obama-and-romney-are-ignoring-the-afghanistan-war%2F2012%2F01%2F22%2FgJQA6Kh0UX_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_jackson-diehl" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/144544174394/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/220e981c/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/144544174394/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/220e981c/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/144544174394/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/220e981c/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">Mitt Romney</category><category domain="">Afghan Army</category><category domain="">roadside bomb</category><pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2012 20:17:25 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-obama-and-romney-are-ignoring-the-afghanistan-war/2012/01/22/gJQA6Kh0UX_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl</guid><dc:creator>Jackson Diehl</dc:creator></item><item><title>Obama and Romney are ignoring the Afghanistan war</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/220ca281/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Copinions0Cjackson0Ediehl0Eobama0Eand0Eromney0Eare0Eignoring0Ethe0Eafghanistan0Ewar0C20A120C0A20C0A30CgJQA6Kh0AUX0Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Ijackson0Ediehl/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Here’s some news that both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney would like you to ignore: Tens of thousands of American soldiers are at war this summer in Afghanistan.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Though you’d never know it from listening to the candidates, U.S. Marine and Army units have been fighting hard against the Afghan Taliban across the south and east of the country. They are taking considerable casualties. In July, according to the Web site icasualties.org, &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://icasualties.org/OEF/index.aspx"&gt;46 American and coalition troops were killed&lt;/a&gt; — the highest total since last September. Six more died in the first few days of August.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-obama-and-romney-are-ignoring-the-afghanistan-war/2012/08/03/7aae16f4-dcca-11e1-8e43-4a3c4375504a_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/220ca281/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/viral/sendEmail.cfm?lang=en&amp;title=Obama+and+Romney+are+ignoring+the+Afghanistan+war&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fopinions%2Fjackson-diehl-obama-and-romney-are-ignoring-the-afghanistan-war%2F2012%2F02%2F03%2FgJQA6Kh0UX_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_jackson-diehl" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/144544174383/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/220ca281/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/144544174383/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/220ca281/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/144544174383/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/220ca281/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">Mitt Romney</category><category domain="">Afghan Army</category><category domain="">roadside bomb</category><pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2012 20:17:25 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-obama-and-romney-are-ignoring-the-afghanistan-war/2012/02/03/gJQA6Kh0UX_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl</guid><dc:creator>Jackson Diehl</dc:creator></item><item><title>Obama and Romney are ignoring the Afghanistan war</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/2209db49/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Copinions0Cjackson0Ediehl0Eobama0Eand0Eromney0Eare0Eignoring0Ethe0Eafghanistan0Ewar0C20A120C0A60C0A80CgJQA6Kh0AUX0Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Ijackson0Ediehl/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Here’s some news that both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney would like you to ignore: Tens of thousands of American soldiers are at war this summer in Afghanistan.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Though you’d never know it from listening to the candidates, U.S. Marine and Army units have been fighting hard against the Afghan Taliban across the south and east of the country. They are taking considerable casualties. In July, according to the Web site icasualties.org, &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://icasualties.org/OEF/index.aspx"&gt;46 American and coalition troops were killed&lt;/a&gt; — the highest total since last September. Six more died in the first few days of August.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-obama-and-romney-are-ignoring-the-afghanistan-war/2012/08/03/7aae16f4-dcca-11e1-8e43-4a3c4375504a_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/2209db49/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/viral/sendEmail.cfm?lang=en&amp;title=Obama+and+Romney+are+ignoring+the+Afghanistan+war&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fopinions%2Fjackson-diehl-obama-and-romney-are-ignoring-the-afghanistan-war%2F2012%2F06%2F08%2FgJQA6Kh0UX_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_jackson-diehl" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/144544174373/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/2209db49/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/144544174373/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/2209db49/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/144544174373/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/2209db49/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">Mitt Romney</category><category domain="">Afghan Army</category><category domain="">roadside bomb</category><pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2012 20:17:25 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-obama-and-romney-are-ignoring-the-afghanistan-war/2012/06/08/gJQA6Kh0UX_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl</guid><dc:creator>Jackson Diehl</dc:creator></item><item><title>Obama and Romney are ignoring the Afghanistan war</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/228f3789/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Copinions0Cjackson0Ediehl0Eobama0Eand0Eromney0Eare0Eignoring0Ethe0Eafghanistan0Ewar0C20A110C0A80C0A30CgJQA6Kh0AUX0Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Ijackson0Ediehl/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Here’s some news that both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney would like you to ignore: Tens of thousands of American soldiers are at war this summer in Afghanistan.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Though you’d never know it from listening to the candidates, U.S. Marine and Army units have been fighting hard against the Afghan Taliban across the south and east of the country. They are taking considerable casualties. In July, according to the Web site icasualties.org, &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://icasualties.org/OEF/index.aspx"&gt;46 American and coalition troops were killed&lt;/a&gt; — the highest total since last September. Six more died in the first few days of August.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-obama-and-romney-are-ignoring-the-afghanistan-war/2012/08/03/7aae16f4-dcca-11e1-8e43-4a3c4375504a_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/228f3789/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/viral/sendEmail.cfm?lang=en&amp;title=Obama+and+Romney+are+ignoring+the+Afghanistan+war&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fopinions%2Fjackson-diehl-obama-and-romney-are-ignoring-the-afghanistan-war%2F2011%2F08%2F03%2FgJQA6Kh0UX_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_jackson-diehl" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/144544174363/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/228f3789/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/144544174363/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/228f3789/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/144544174363/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/228f3789/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">Mitt Romney</category><category domain="">Afghan Army</category><category domain="">roadside bomb</category><pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2012 20:17:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-obama-and-romney-are-ignoring-the-afghanistan-war/2011/08/03/gJQA6Kh0UX_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl</guid><dc:creator>Jackson Diehl</dc:creator></item><item><title>Obama and Romney are ignoring the Afghanistan war</title><link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/2282b0a9/l/0L0Swashingtonpost0N0Copinions0Cjackson0Ediehl0Eobama0Eand0Eromney0Eare0Eignoring0Ethe0Eafghanistan0Ewar0C20A120C0A80C0A50C7aae16f40Edcca0E11e10E8e430E4a3c437550A4a0Istory0Bhtml0Dwprss0Frss0Ijackson0Ediehl/story01.htm</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Here’s some news that both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney would like you to ignore: Tens of thousands of American soldiers are at war this summer in Afghanistan.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Though you’d never know it from listening to the candidates, U.S. Marine and Army units have been fighting hard against the Afghan Taliban across the south and east of the country. They are taking considerable casualties. In July, according to the Web site icasualties.org, &lt;a data-xslt="_http" href="http://icasualties.org/OEF/index.aspx"&gt;46 American and coalition troops were killed&lt;/a&gt; — the highest total since last September. Six more died in the first few days of August.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-obama-and-romney-are-ignoring-the-afghanistan-war/2012/08/03/7aae16f4-dcca-11e1-8e43-4a3c4375504a_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl"&gt;Read full article &amp;#62;&amp;#62;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636600/s/2282b0a9/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;div class='mf-viral'&gt;&lt;table border='0'&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign='middle'&gt;&lt;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/viral/sendEmail.cfm?lang=en&amp;title=Obama+and+Romney+are+ignoring+the+Afghanistan+war&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fopinions%2Fjackson-diehl-obama-and-romney-are-ignoring-the-afghanistan-war%2F2012%2F08%2F05%2F7aae16f4-dcca-11e1-8e43-4a3c4375504a_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_jackson-diehl" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/144544174353/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/2282b0a9/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/144544174353/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/2282b0a9/a2.img" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/144544174353/u/0/f/636600/c/34656/s/2282b0a9/a2t.img" border="0"/&gt;</description><category domain="">Mitt Romney</category><category domain="">Afghan Army</category><category domain="">roadside bomb</category><pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2012 20:17:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-obama-and-romney-are-ignoring-the-afghanistan-war/2012/08/05/7aae16f4-dcca-11e1-8e43-4a3c4375504a_story.html?wprss=rss_jackson-diehl</guid><dc:creator>Jackson Diehl</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>
