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	<title>There Is No Plan &#187; Iraq</title>
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	<description>Risk-averse policymakers should not read this blog.</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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		<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>Turns Out We&#8217;re Not Leaving Iraq After All</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/03/10/turns-out-were-not-leaving-iraq-after-all/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/03/10/turns-out-were-not-leaving-iraq-after-all/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 05:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a reminder of the bad old days.  But it was today in Baghdad. Big suicide bomb, coordinated attacks on rescuers, dozens dead and wounded, and the customary &#8220;bears all the hallmarks of an Al Qaeda operation designed to ferment sectarian strife&#8221;.  It&#8217;s doubtful whether it had any effect on the tone of Robert [...]]]></description>
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		<title>12k US Troops Leaving Iraq. 28 killed in Baghdad Bomb.</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/03/08/12k-us-troops-leaving-iraq-28-killed-in-baghdad-bomb/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/03/08/12k-us-troops-leaving-iraq-28-killed-in-baghdad-bomb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two headlines side by side on the same day. Sometime in the next two years, we&#8217;ll stop seeing versions of the first headline. Will the second headline be gone too? I doubt it.  Because it&#8217;s highly likely that not long after the troops are gone, we&#8217;ll be reporting on the new and endless rash of [...]]]></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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		<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>Can you Spell Power Vacuum? The US Can&#8217;t leave Iraq.</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/02/27/can-you-spell-power-vacuum-the-us-cant-leave-iraq/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/02/27/can-you-spell-power-vacuum-the-us-cant-leave-iraq/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 06:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama&#8217;s speech at Camp LeJeune today made official what we&#8217;ve known for a while, that the combat mission in Iraq is over. Perhaps that explains why the response to what should have been a historical announcement seemed strangely muted. There are many other possible explanations too, ranging from the little matter of a massive economic [...]]]></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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		<title>If the Shoe Fits &#8211; Throw It at the Occupier</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/12/14/if-the-shoe-fits-throw-it-at-the-occupier/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/12/14/if-the-shoe-fits-throw-it-at-the-occupier/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2003 the press made a big hoo hah about the fact that it was a deep insult in Iraq to toss ones shoes at the object of derision. It was around the time the mission was &#8220;accomplished&#8221; and a toppled statue of Saddam was being dragged around being pelted with shoes by the incensed [...]]]></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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