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	<title>There Is No Plan &#187; Clinton</title>
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		<title>Libya &#8211; Where Do We Go From Here?</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2011/07/18/libya-where-do-we-go-from-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 21:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About 200km east of the Egypt-Libya border begins the Qattara Depression, a vast low-lying stretch of desert banked by steep cliffs to the North. It&#8217;s essentially an impassable, virtually uninhabited world of soft, sinking sand, brittle salt-lakes, and sucking swamps. During WW2 it was regarded as a no-mans land through which any heavy vehicle would [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 23:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<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>Obama&#8217;s Letter to Medvedev &#8211; A New Diplomacy in Action</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/03/03/obamas-letter-to-medvedev-a-new-diplomacy-in-action/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/03/03/obamas-letter-to-medvedev-a-new-diplomacy-in-action/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama&#8217;s not so secret letter to his counterpart in Russia, President Medvedev, seems like a strong beginning to a new, more robust and directed diplomacy. Applying an unspoken quid pro quo that the serious application of pressure by Russia on Iran to stem Tehran&#8217;s nuclear ambitions could mean the removal of the US nuclear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now It&#8217;s Up to the Democratic Congress to Step Up</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/02/27/now-its-up-to-the-democratic-congress-to-step-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1993 Clinton arrived on a heady wave of enthusiasm, dedicated to undoing some of the excesses of Reaganism. He made a few stumbles, he announced a sweeping healthcare initiative and he got nowhere. There are many reasons for his failure. The sheer newness of the administration, presentation issues, and this &#8211; he got very [...]]]></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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		<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 Definition of Normal by George W. Bush</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/12/13/the-definition-of-normal-by-george-w-bush/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s more than a tad ironic that one of the last and most important acts of the outgoing Bush administration will be to attempt an end-run around Republicans in Congress and allow a bridge loan to the US automakers from the the $700 billion set aside all those months ago for the purchase of &#8220;toxic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mumbai Massacre &#8211; An Opportunity For Clarity</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/12/06/the-mumbai-massacre-an-opportunity-for-clarity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/12/06/the-mumbai-massacre-an-opportunity-for-clarity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 12:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Rogue Elements&#8221; is a big word du jour right now. The idea that within an organization there&#8217;s often a fifth column conjures up all sorts of conspiracy theories about CIA spooks with their own twisted agendas. Usually, this stuff is confined to fiction or the far reachs of the blogosphere. But what happens when the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama and Iraq &#8211; Now Comes The Hard Part.</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/12/01/obama-and-iraq-now-comes-the-hard-part/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ivan Watson, NPR&#8217;s Baghdad Correspondent was the target of an assassination attempt today when he and his team were nearly killed by a car bomb. And in recent weeks there has clearly been a spike in violence in Iraq. Let nobody say that the situation that war-torn country is anything close to peaceful. And yet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost Opportunities at State</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/11/22/lost-opportunities-at-state/</link>
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		<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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