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			<title><![CDATA[Jim Hoagland: The broader Mideast decision lies with Israel]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Few things are as dangerous in the Middle East as well-intentioned outsiders. They invariably bring unintended consequences upon those they would guide to a better life. Ask Job. Or consider the case of Mahmoud Abbas, whose hurt and fury over foreign meddling has triggered his threat to quit as Palestinian leader. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jim Hoagland on war's ties to the Fort Hood massacre]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ America's vast spaces inspire such fear and uncertainty for the country's inhabitants that at times they snap, reach for an ever-present firearm and blaze away at their fellow citizens. This narrative comes from a European friend to explain the Fort Hood massacre, as well as those that preceded it and those yet to come. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jim Hoagland on the dangers of reaching out to Iran and Syria]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Barack Obama's extended hand was whacked across the knuckles by the leaders of Iran, Syria and assorted other thuggeries last week. But the Obama administration did manage a good demonstration in Burma of how its brand of engagement can and should work. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jim Hoagland on the fall of a gregarious Frenchman]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Old age is a shipwreck.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=47217701394" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=47217701394" border="0" vspace="5"></a> <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jim Hoagland on NAFTA's growing importance]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Why Obama Is Taking His Time on Afghanistan]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Is President Obama dithering on Afghanistan, as critics claim? Or do loyalists praising his deliberate pace have it right? Both camps rush past the obvious: The president is almost certainly applying a calculated, cold-blooded squeeze on his partners in the Afghan endeavor to get what he needs for a successful policy. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[Honoring Obama for Events Yet to Come]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Gobsmacked by President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize? You have come to the right place. Chalk it up to the national character of my ancestral homeland. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[An Opportunity to Work With Russia and Iran]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ PARIS --  Three American presidents have set the stage for a grand diplomatic bargain that could align the interests of the world's leading powers in Europe and the Middle East. It is now up to Barack Obama to play out that opportunity by keeping his eye on the forest as well as the trees.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=47217706830" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=47217706830" border="0" vspace="5"></a> <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama's Misplaced Push for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ President Obama's dream of a world without nuclear weapons seems more like a nightmare to Russia and other nations that possess doomsday arms. Obama is pushing on a door that is closed, barred from inside and locked with a key that has been thrown away as far as the Kremlin is concerned. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev: Two Faces of Russia]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ MOSCOW -- The world's economic crisis does not seem to have been unkind to you, Vladimir Putin notes as we sit down to a lunch that begins with calf's tail in aspic. "You all look well fed, well dressed." <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[A Failed Afghan Election -- and Danger Signs for Obama]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ The aftermath of Afghanistan's elections has been uglier and more consequential than the campaign that preceded the voting. It has become clear that President Hamid Karzai's bid for reelection was tainted by widespread fraud, a development that represents the Obama administration's first significant failure in foreign affairs. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[Shockwaves From Japan's Election]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Japan's voters have thrust power on an incoherent coalition of hungry politicians distinguished only by their willingness to promise anything to anybody anytime. Good for them. In many ways we should applaud the Japanese who voted for what is being described as "change they can't believe in."<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=47217718896" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=47217718896" border="0" vspace="5"></a> <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Hoagland]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Behind a Libyan Welcome and Iran's Nuclear Ambitions]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=bf4a68967dcc303863fbdd122917cd07</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Moammar Gaddafi leaned across the couch and surprised me with the question he posed, squinting as he searched my face for reaction: "Why do you drink poison?" <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Hoagland]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Health Care and Other Setbacks Raise Questions About Obama's Strength]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Shortly after the Group of 20 summit concluded in London in April, Nicolas Sarkozy blurted out to a small group of advisers a question that weighed on him as he watched President Obama glad-hand his way through the gathering: "Est-il faible?" (Is he weak?) <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Hoagland]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Balkans Nations' Progress as a Legacy of NATO Intervention]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=5dda438859a94aa3e16dfa7e8834d6ab</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ KORCULA, Croatia --  The enterprising folk of this Adriatic island town now use the past to propel themselves into the future. As they do, they offer a glimpse of a certain idea of promise for all the Balkans. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Hoagland]]></dc:creator>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Clinton's Iran Indiscretion]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ I love writing about control freaks. They cannot resist responding in ways that prove my point.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=47217724286" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=47217724286" border="0" vspace="5"></a> <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Hoagland]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama Using Deadlines to Forge Foreign Policy]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ President Obama's surge in Afghanistan has a year to show that the increase in U.S. forces and aid can turn the tide there. It is not an open-ended commitment of American troops and money. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama Using Deadlines to Forge Foreign Policy]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ President Obama's surge in Afghanistan has a year to show that the increase in U.S. forces and aid can turn the tide there. It is not an open-ended commitment of American troops and money. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[White House Message Control Breeds Tension]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=84e3bc4e4197a7d49f848b6e23dff92a</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Surprised to see the news the other day that the Obama administration is sending an ambassador back to Syria? So were officials in Hillary Clinton's State Department. They were still hoping to win more movement from Damascus on Middle East issues when President Obama's decision was leaked. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[McNamara: Brightness Cloaked in Hubris]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The Robert S. McNamara who helped lead the United States into defeat and shame in Vietnam would never have anticipated or trusted what I am about to recount. None of the computers he depended on to chart that war could quantify serendipity or instinct.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=47217727100" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=47217727100" border="0" vspace="5"></a> <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[Global Warming: Preparing for a Sea Change]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ VENICE -- Europe will be wrangled for the next six months by a lanky, no-nonsense Swede named Carl Bildt. His country chairs this semester's cascade of European Union summits, procedural debates and other gabfests. As Sweden's foreign minister, it is Bildt's job to make sense of it all -- a task akin to herding not cats but eels. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[In the Middle East, Hawks Still Count]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ PARIS --  "President" Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's brutal clampdown on his opponents is a tragedy for Iranians. But the shredding of Iran's pretensions of being a stable, democratic state may offer positive change in the Middle East in the longer term. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[In Iran, a Moment to Temper 'Realism']]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The most serious challenge that Iran's Islamic rulers have ever faced caught President Obama and many European leaders by surprise. Their intelligence agencies did little to prepare them for a national catharsis that pits a combustible mixture of youthful protesters and political opportunists against Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama's Chance to Redefine NATO Role]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ France's attitude toward U.S. policy on Middle East peace? "We totally agreed." How about Iran? "Totally aligned on this." Personal relations? "It is a pleasure to work with Barack Obama."<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=47217730804" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=47217730804" border="0" vspace="5"></a> <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Hoagland]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Desperation in Trying to Revive the U.S. Auto Industry]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Foreign lands define themselves to us through national symbols long before we learn their languages or customs. The bear reminds us to be careful of Russia and Germany, the rooster crows for France, Britain fronts the haughty lion while we Americans identify with highflying, lonely eagles. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Hoagland]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Seeds for a Mideast Peace Crop]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Memo to President Obama: <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Hoagland]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Challenge From a New Century's Wars]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ George W. Bush's refusal to work with Congress and other nations to update national and international legal norms to fight al-Qaeda immediately after Sept. 11, 2001, now haunts the nation and his successor. Bush's stubborn rejection of sharing authority, and responsibility, left us to fight a 21st-century enemy with mid-20th-century instruments of justice. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Hoagland]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Into the Thicket on Torture]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ President Obama's effort to block the release of photographs of U.S. prisoner abuse is a mistake that can be corrected. The president acts with good intentions -- and a profound understanding of the overstimulated times and society in which he lives. That alone represents progress at the White House.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=47217738126" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=47217738126" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Hoagland]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Something to Celebrate in South Africa]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ South Africa has selected a new president in its fourth democratic and peaceful national election since its liberation from apartheid. So much for the cynics' slogan "one man, one vote, one time" as the unyielding rule of African politics. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Hoagland]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[A President Goes Friending]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ President Obama will not twit, I have been authoritatively informed. Or should that be tweet? Unsure about the correct verb form for sending Twitter messages, I turned for guidance to my authoritative informer, Macon Phillips, the affable young Internet specialist in charge of the White House's new-media office. ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Can Obama's Mideast Strategy Survive a Strike Against Iran?]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ President Obama's national security aides are struggling to conclude a strategic review of U.S. policy toward Iran. The review is certain to be comprehensive, imaginative -- and largely silent to irrelevant on the most difficult choices about Iran that Obama will face over the next year or two. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Hoagland]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[A Suggestion for Mr. Obama: Keep Focused on the Economy]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ MEXICO CITY -- And now a little heresy from your friendly foreign affairs columnist for President Obama: Stay focused on fixing the American economy. Avoid pleasant distractions created by dealing with foreign leaders and crises without congressional interference. Stay out of the honey-tree trap of commander in chiefism.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=47217741962" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=47217741962" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[The War Within Islam]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ "Leave me for the moment -- you can beat me again later," a 17-year-old girl begs between sobs in a video airing on Pakistan's private television networks and circulating on the Internet. But the local Taliban commander continues to flog her without mercy as a group of village men watch in silence. ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama - The Listener in Chief Needs to Lead]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Only in America, did you murmur? Or was it my own thought on hearing that, on the very day Queen Elizabeth welcomed Barack and Michelle Obama to Buckingham Palace for tea, the president's impecunious Kenyan aunt had to plead with a Boston immigration judge not to be deported immediately? ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Hoagland]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Fixing the Global Financial System - America's Way on Trial]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ War is too important to be left to generals, France's Georges Clemenceau concluded during the organized butchery of World War I. Today's global economic collapse is convincing European and Asian nations that management of the dollar is too important to be left to the Americans. ]]></description>
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