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	<title>There Is No Plan &#187; Pakistan</title>
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	<description>Risk-averse policymakers should not read this blog.</description>
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		<title>Basking in Bin Laden&#8217;s Death Was a Big Mistake For Obama</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2011/06/16/basking-in-bin-ladens-death-was-a-big-mistake-for-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2011/06/16/basking-in-bin-ladens-death-was-a-big-mistake-for-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s becoming increasingly clear that making the killing of the Jihadist Porn King public was a big mistake. Thereisnoplan has been saying this since the attack, generating much mirth amongst friends and associates. But I stand by the notion. Obama screwed up. If you remember, on the big night back in May, Obama made an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Starts 2012 Campaign With a Bang</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2011/05/04/obama-starts-2012-campaign-with-a-bang/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2011/05/04/obama-starts-2012-campaign-with-a-bang/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 18:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having essentially capitulated to the GOP / Corporate agenda on health care, financial reform and the nation&#8217;s debt &#8220;crisis&#8221;, Obama is now &#8216;rising above&#8217; the fray with a savvy opening salvo in the 2012 campaign. It was a good &#8216;un too. Assassinating Bin Laden has bumped him up a dozen approval points in 48 hours, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Egypt: Another Pakistan in the Making?</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2011/01/30/egypt-another-pakistan-in-the-making/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2011/01/30/egypt-another-pakistan-in-the-making/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 02:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Cairo explodes, it&#8217;s worth looking more closely at Pakistan for one potential trajectory that Egypt could take. Pakistan is deeply unstable, an impoverished nation torn asunder by clashes between militancy, the middle class, the army and a ruling elite. The similarities between the two nations is quite striking. Both Egypt and Pakistan&#8230; &#8230;were born [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama In India. A Little More Finesse Please.</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2010/11/07/obama-in-india-a-little-more-finesse-please/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2010/11/07/obama-in-india-a-little-more-finesse-please/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 05:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thereisnoplan.com/?p=1240</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so maybe it wasn&#8217;t the move of the century to ditch our wounded republic for a far flung developing nation that&#8217;s trying to put us away. And maybe the idea of going to India to jinny up jobs for America seems a bit of an &#8220;uhh?&#8221; to use a technical term, considering they&#8217;re outsource [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Plans for Pakistan.</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/11/11/making-plans-for-pakistan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2009/11/11/making-plans-for-pakistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing in Foreign Policy is simple, but problems don&#8217;t get any thornier than what do about Pakistan. One of the most perplexing elements of the discussion surrounding the current hand-wringing over what to do in Afghanistan is how little Pakistan is mentioned as &#8216;the reason&#8217; for our Afghan policy. This despite the coining of a [...]]]></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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		<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>Gordon Brown Is Back!</title>
		<link>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/12/14/gordon-brown-is-back/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thereisnoplan.com/2008/12/14/gordon-brown-is-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>coolrebel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was British Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson who coined the term &#8220;A week is a long time in politics&#8221;, and while Gordon Brown&#8217;s astonishing turnaround as British Prime Minister has taken a little longer than that, it has been truly remarkable. When the British public turn on their leaders, they do it with a [...]]]></description>
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