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	<title>There Is No Plan &#187; Iran</title>
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	<description>Risk-averse policymakers should not read this blog.</description>
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		<title>The Road to Revolution is Paved with Bread Not Tech.</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2011/02/15/the-road-to-revolution-is-paved-with-bread-not-tech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And it always has been. Napoleon&#8217;s famous adage that an Army marches on its stomach applies to something else he knew a little something about &#8211; popular revolt. Indeed, a brief scan of the French Revolution might be more than a little prescient as Egypt settles in for calamitous disappointment. Simply put, the story goes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sadr and Duvalier &#8211; Bad Guys Check in at The Democracy Motel</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2011/01/17/sadr-and-duvalier-bad-guys-check-in-at-the-democracy-motel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2011/01/17/sadr-and-duvalier-bad-guys-check-in-at-the-democracy-motel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 06:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chalk it up as a bad week for democracy. A few days ago, Muqtada Al Sadr comes back from his extended vacation in Iran to restore a little of his special brand of sanity to the Iraqi Government in Baghdad. And yesterday, Jean-Claude Duvalier, retired evil dictator who along with his evil dictator dad drove [...]]]></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>Iran and Palestine. A Step-by-Step Guide To Middle East Peace</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/11/16/iran-and-palestine-a-step-by-step-guide-to-middle-east-peace/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/11/16/iran-and-palestine-a-step-by-step-guide-to-middle-east-peace/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[America At War]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ahmedinajad]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Struggling with a Middle-East Peace Process that seems to have bogged down in a matter of months, President Obama is probably thinking he needs Iran's nuclear ambitions like a he needs a Republican filibuster. But looking a little deeper, it's possible that Iranian nukes and creating a Palestinian state could be connected, and each helps the other problem go away.]]></description>
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		<title>Clinton and Obama on Iran &#8211; Diplomacy 101</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/03/05/clinton-and-obama-on-iran-diplomacy-101/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/03/05/clinton-and-obama-on-iran-diplomacy-101/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thereisnoplan.wordpress.com/?p=937</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To say that the Obama administration is all over the place on Iran is an understatement. During the campaign, President Obama assured us that he would work hard to start a dialogue with Iran. His view remains, apparently at least, that engagement is the best way to deal with Tehran, their sponsorship of Hezbollah and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leaving Iraq. More Powerful Arguments Against.</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/03/04/leaving-iraq-more-powerful-arguments-against/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/03/04/leaving-iraq-more-powerful-arguments-against/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thereisnoplan.wordpress.com/?p=910</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tom Ricks&#8217; new book &#8220;The Gamble&#8221; is going to make some waves, and the author&#8217;s interview on NPR this morning is just the latest. This blog is an advocate of Obama leaving US troops in Iraq for the long term. It&#8217;s becoming increasingly clear that Obama is caught between a rock and a hard place [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thereisnoplan.wordpress.com/?p=898</guid>
		<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>Potus Heralds a New Era on US-Iranian Relations? Bad Start</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/03/01/potus-heralds-a-new-era-on-us-iranian-relations-bad-start/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/03/01/potus-heralds-a-new-era-on-us-iranian-relations-bad-start/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 04:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thereisnoplan.wordpress.com/2009/03/01/potus-heralds-a-new-era-on-us-iranian-relations-bad-start/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mullen says Iran has enough fissile material for a bomb on the same day that Gates says they&#8217;re not close to getting a bomb. Now it&#8217;s true that these two statements are not mutually exclusive on a factual basis, but they are contradictory in terms of their diplomatic intent. Potus, Pentagon and State need to [...]]]></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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		<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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