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	<title>There Is No Plan &#187; Afghanistan</title>
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	<description>Risk-averse policymakers should not read this blog.</description>
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		<title>Welcome to the Bullshit Era</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2010/01/28/welcome-to-the-bullshit-era/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2010/01/28/welcome-to-the-bullshit-era/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thereisnoplan.com/?p=1158</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the old days, policy used to have at least some potential to become reality, but it&#8217;s becoming increasingly clear that in America at least, those days are over. Nothing anybody seems to suggest from the President on downwards seems to mean a hill of beans anymore. It&#8217;s as if the country is set on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti Commentary: Want to Get your Nation Rebuilt?  Export a Little Terror.</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2010/01/14/haiti-commentary-want-to-get-your-nation-rebuilt-export-a-little-terror/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2010/01/14/haiti-commentary-want-to-get-your-nation-rebuilt-export-a-little-terror/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Haiti. A tragic, profoundly unlucky nation, poster child of colonial brutality and exploitation &#8211; right on America&#8217;s doorstep. Every few years or so, Haiti pings the heartstrings of the world&#8217;s wealthy nations and donations flood in &#8211; along with every journalist worth his or her salt. The scale and magnitude of this latest catastrophe is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Khalid Sheikh Mohammed plays New York City</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/11/13/khalid-sheikh-mohammed-plays-new-york-city/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/11/13/khalid-sheikh-mohammed-plays-new-york-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thereisnoplan.com/?p=1075</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Attorney General Eric Holder made the sobering announcement today that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (henceforth KSM) would be tried in New York for masterminding the 9/11 attacks. It&#8217;s a bold move that&#8217;s been well received by progresssives as an opporunity for America to show that no matter what the crime, justice and due process will always [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Decision On Afghanistan &#8211; Bold Solutions Required</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/11/11/obamas-decision-on-afghanistan-bold-solutions-required/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/11/11/obamas-decision-on-afghanistan-bold-solutions-required/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thereisnoplan.com/?p=1044</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Obama&#8217;s Afghan Dilemma is only vexing because it pits one conventional approach against another, when neither holds much hope for success. Both the COIN + CT approaches are what I call &#8220;perfect world&#8221; approaches. They rely on countless variables going right, and if history in Afghanistan has taught us anything, it&#8217;s that banking on anything [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talk To the Taliban &#8211; Obama&#8217;s Divide and Rule Strategy</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/03/07/talk-to-the-taliban-obamas-divide-and-rule-strategy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/03/07/talk-to-the-taliban-obamas-divide-and-rule-strategy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 23:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thereisnoplan.wordpress.com/?p=982</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Talking to moderate elements of the Taliban in order to undermine its unity is a great second prong of attack &#8211; to be combined with a more money-driven attack on Taliban control of Afghan opium. Obama was wise to caution that the complexities of Afghan tribal culture made the mapping of such talks much harder [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whither Gitmo &#8211; What Are the Risks of Closing Guantanamo?</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/02/26/whither-gitmo-what-are-the-risks-of-closing-guantanamo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/02/26/whither-gitmo-what-are-the-risks-of-closing-guantanamo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thereisnoplan.wordpress.com/?p=837</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Among the many black marks on the Bush Administration will be the following; they sure were talented at getting us into jams we couldn&#8217;t get out of. Iraq, and Afghanistan are top of the list, but just below them is Gitmo. Opened at a time when Bush and the neo-cons really did think that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rise of Neo-Liberalism</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/02/15/the-rise-of-neo-liberalism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/02/15/the-rise-of-neo-liberalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thereisnoplan.wordpress.com/?p=766</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Neo-Cons are dead. Long live the Neo-Libs. It&#8217;s not just conservatives who believe that the continued hegemony of the United States is critical to the wellbeing of human-kind.  But the Neo-Lib prescription veers from the Neo-Cons very substantially after that. We neo-libs do not feel that military power is the key to our continued [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nobody Fights in Afghanistan and Wins.</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/01/27/nobody-fights-in-afghanistan-and-wins/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/01/27/nobody-fights-in-afghanistan-and-wins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thereisnoplan.wordpress.com/?p=705</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From a superficial perspective, the idea of diverting US forces to Afghanistan as we draw down troops in Iraq seems like a good idea. But Afghanistan is a deeply inhospitable, corrupt, backward, and highly unstable failed state with an almost feudal social structure. It&#8217;s been resisting modernity and foreign control for millenia. Before we do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pearl Harbor Day.  A Nation At War Then and Now.</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/12/07/a-nation-at-war-then-and-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/12/07/a-nation-at-war-then-and-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 04:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the 67th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which triggered America&#8217;s entrance into the Second World War. Less than four years later, America had been instrumental in defeating Nazi Germany and had almost singlehandedly defeated Imperial Japan. US heavy industry was turned almost overnight into a highly coordinated Arms manufacturer, supplying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost Opportunities at State</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/11/22/lost-opportunities-at-state/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/11/22/lost-opportunities-at-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sounds like her ladyship, Hilary Clinton is going to get the nod at the State Department. There are two far better choices out there, one of whom didn&#8217;t get a look-in, the other who was sold short. Richard Holbrooke Holbrooke is the only person to have held Assistant SOS positions for two different world regions [...]]]></description>
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