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    <title><![CDATA[Middle East |Commentary | CIP RSS Feeds]]></title>
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    <description>Articles, Letters, Op-eds, Policy Briefs, Testimony</description>
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    <dc:creator>jacob@ciponline.org</dc:creator>
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      <title><![CDATA[Drone Summit: Killing and Spying by Remote Control]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/drone-summit-killing-spying-remote-control</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/drone-summit-killing-spying-remote-control#When:11:11:29Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Congress seems more interested in promoting drone proliferation than in oversight. A Washington, D.C., summit seeks to educate the public on the use and abuse of drones]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, TransBorder Project, Americas, Middle East, Transparency & Accountability, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2012-04-12T11:11:29+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Two cases where a will to act is lacking]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/two-cases-where-will-to-act-lacking</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/two-cases-where-will-to-act-lacking#When:17:03:48Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Harry Blaney responds to two items published in the Financial Times about the future of Syria and of the future of Europe]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[National Security Project, Middle East, Letter,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2012-04-11T17:03:48+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Shut Out of US, Lawyer for Pakistani Drone Victims Speaks Out]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/lawyer-for-pakistani-drone-victims-speaks-out</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/lawyer-for-pakistani-drone-victims-speaks-out#When:14:43:42Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Tom Barry interviews Pakistani lawyer, Shahzad Akbar, about the upcoming drone summit in Washington, D.C.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, TransBorder Project, Americas, Middle East, Pakistan, Transparency & Accountability, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2012-04-11T14:43:42+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Drones Flying Under the Radar]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/drones-flying-under-radar</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/drones-flying-under-radar#When:10:24:54Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Tom Barry discusses the expanding use of drones and the lack of control over their proliferation]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, TransBorder Project, Americas, Mexico, Middle East, Transparency & Accountability, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2012-04-05T10:24:54+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Vietnam and Afghanistan: The more things change&#8230;]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/vietnam-and-afghanistan-more-things-change</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/vietnam-and-afghanistan-more-things-change#When:13:37:34Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[  Two lengthy and devastating wars separated by three decades.   One fought in the jungles of Vietnam and one in the mountains and deserts of Afghanistan]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Win Without War, Afghanistan Study Group, Middle East, Afghanistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2012-02-08T13:37:34+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[A Decade of Mistakes]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/afghanistan-decade-mistakes</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/afghanistan-decade-mistakes#When:11:48:20Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[CIP senior fellow Francesc Vendrell on the missed opportunities in Afghanistan]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Middle East, Afghanistan, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-12-03T11:48:20+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[How Do We End America’s Longest War?]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/how-do-we-end-americas-longest-war</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/how-do-we-end-americas-longest-war#When:11:52:57Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Mr. Hoh will discuss the current conditions in Afghanistan, the impact of President Obama’s withdrawal of U.S. forces over the next year and alternative options for the U.S. and international communities. ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Afghanistan Study Group, Middle East, Afghanistan, Policy Research, Speech,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-08-26T11:52:57+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Motivations Are Plain]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/motivations-are-plain1</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/motivations-are-plain1#When:11:29:54Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Fourteen months ago, President Bush proclaimed a "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq. When that proved to be a mirage, he then promised Iraq "full sovereignty" on June 30.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Middle East, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-08-24T11:29:54+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Simmering Discord in the Tribal Badlands]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/simmering-discord-in-the-tribal-badlands</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/simmering-discord-in-the-tribal-badlands#When:15:32:25Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The alarming growth of Al Qaeda and the Taliban in the Pashtun tribal region of northwest Pakistan and southern Afghanistan is usually attributed to the popularity of their messianic brand of Islam and to covert help from Pakistani intelligence agencies]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-08-01T15:32:25+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Change Course in Afghanistan]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/change-course-in-afghanistan</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/change-course-in-afghanistan#When:10:53:57Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, President Obama outlined his strategy for Afghanistan, which included a drawdown of 10,000 troops by the end of this year and an additional 23,000 by the end of next year. ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Afghanistan Study Group, Middle East, Afghanistan, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-07-20T10:53:57+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Stop Aiding Human Rights Abusers in Bahrain]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/stop_aiding_human_rights_abusers_in_bahrain</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/stop_aiding_human_rights_abusers_in_bahrain#When:13:17:30Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[While Congress has debated the merits and political legitimacy of the Obama administration's intervention in Libya, other Mideast democracy struggles have received far less scrutiny than they deserve.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Arms & Security Project, Middle East, Advocacy, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-07-18T13:17:30+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Should US Quicken Drawdown of Troops in Afghanistan?]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/should_us_quicken_drawdown_of_troops_in_afghanistan</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/should_us_quicken_drawdown_of_troops_in_afghanistan#When:14:20:26Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[As he was announcing his second increase in troops for Afghanistan in December 2009, President Barack Obama ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Afghanistan Study Group, Middle East, Afghanistan, Advocacy, Policy Research, Transparency & Accountability, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-06-29T14:20:26+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Our Plan Has Not Worked in Afghanistan]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/our_plan_has_not_worked_in_afghanistan</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/our_plan_has_not_worked_in_afghanistan#When:15:06:23Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[As he was announcing his second increase in troops for Afghanistan in December 2009, President Obama promised ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Afghanistan Study Group, Middle East, Afghanistan, Advocacy, Policy Research, Transparency & Accountability, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-06-22T15:06:23+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Bush And The U.S. Descent Into Torture]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/bush-us-descent-into-torture</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/bush-us-descent-into-torture#When:11:50:18Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Not in memory has the image of the United States been so stained in the eyes of the world. Now, when most people think of our invasion of Iraq, they think not of happy liberated people, but of that hooded Iraqi prisoner with electrodes hooked to his fingers and penis.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Americas, Cuba, Middle East, Transparency & Accountability, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-06-19T11:50:18+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[US-Pakistani Relations: The Tail Still Wags the Dog]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us_pakistani_relations_the_tail_still_wags_the_dog</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us_pakistani_relations_the_tail_still_wags_the_dog#When:15:25:52Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[During the worst days of the cold war, the United States and the Soviet Union learned that their third-world clients ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, National Security Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Advocacy, Policy Research, Transparency & Accountability, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-06-14T15:25:52+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Measuring Quick Sand]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/measuring_quick_sand</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/measuring_quick_sand#When:15:39:56Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[In the Autumn of 2006, in the western part of Iraq's Anbar Province, US Marine and Army units were taking]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Afghanistan Study Group, Middle East, Afghanistan, Advocacy, Policy Research, Transparency & Accountability, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-06-09T15:39:56+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Time to Rein in Mideast Arms Trade]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/time_to_rein_in_mideast_arms_trade</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/time_to_rein_in_mideast_arms_trade#When:15:48:34Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[President Obama’s evolving policy towards the rapid changes in the Middle East and North Africa has one glaring ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Arms & Security Project, Middle East, Africa, Advocacy, Policy Research, Transparency & Accountability, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-06-03T15:48:34+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Envoy Mitchell Sent on Israeli Task that Proved Impossible]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/envoy_mitchell_sent_on_israeli_task_that_proved_impossible</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/envoy_mitchell_sent_on_israeli_task_that_proved_impossible#When:16:18:31Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama's "Special Envoy on Middle East Peace," former Sen. George W. Mitchell, has resigned]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Middle East, Advocacy, Policy Research, Transparency & Accountability, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-05-19T16:18:31+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[What Benazir Bhutto Knew About Bin Laden]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/what_benazir_bhutto_knew_about_bin_laden</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/what_benazir_bhutto_knew_about_bin_laden#When:16:33:17Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Benazir Bhutto was a friend of mine. I met her in the 1980s, when I was serving on the House Foreign Affairs ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Middle East, Pakistan, Advocacy, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-05-13T16:33:17+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[U.S. Encroachment Infuriates, Radicalizes Pakistanis]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us_encroachment_infuriates_radicalizes_pakistanis</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us_encroachment_infuriates_radicalizes_pakistanis#When:17:04:24Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The bin Laden raid is just the latest unilateral encroachment on Pakistani territory. Reports of official pushback are ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Advocacy, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-05-04T17:04:24+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Like the Iraq and Afghanistan wars? You&#8217;ll LOVE this!]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/like_the_iraq_and_afghanistan_wars_youll_love_this</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/like_the_iraq_and_afghanistan_wars_youll_love_this#When:11:04:00Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[If you like the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan then you’ll love what Senator John McCain and Congressman ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Win Without War, Middle East, Afghanistan, Advocacy, Policy Research, Transparency & Accountability, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-04-28T11:04:00+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Pakistani Terrorists Eye U.S.]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pakistani_terrorists_eye_us</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pakistani_terrorists_eye_us#When:11:20:05Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The current crisis between Pakistan and the United States centers on one key little-discussed issue: Will Islamabad disarm its most formidable Islamist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LET) which staged the 2008 attack on Mumbai and now openly threatens to carry its jihad to America?]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Advocacy, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-04-26T11:20:05+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Libyan Intervention Started a Dialogue About Military Spending]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/libyan_intervention_started_dialogue_about_military_spending</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/libyan_intervention_started_dialogue_about_military_spending#When:13:46:54Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Congress, the media, and the public are rightly asking whether America should be spending $1 billion or ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Arms & Security Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Africa, Advocacy, Policy Research, Transparency & Accountability, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-04-07T13:46:54+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[America&#8217;s Costliest War]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/americas_costliest_war</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/americas_costliest_war#When:14:43:56Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Congress, the media, and the public are rightly asking whether America should be spending $1 billion or more]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Arms & Security Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Africa, Advocacy, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-04-05T14:43:56+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Averting an Indo-Pak Disaster]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/averting_an_indo_pak_disaster</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/averting_an_indo_pak_disaster#When:15:16:59Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[January 1989. That was the brief interlude of hope when Benazir Bhutto and Rajiv Gandhi, the then-Prime ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Advocacy, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-03-24T15:16:59+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[#Winning in Afghanistan]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/winning_in_afghanistan</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/winning_in_afghanistan#When:16:40:12Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[General David Petraeus is in Washington, D.C., this week and, as expected, we are hearing claims of success ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Afghanistan Study Group, Middle East, Afghanistan, Advocacy, Policy Research, Transparency & Accountability, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-03-16T16:40:12+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Chinese Cozy Up to the Pakistanis]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-chinese-cozy-up-to-pakistanis</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-chinese-cozy-up-to-pakistanis#When:10:10:50Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[China’s expanding reach is a natural and acceptable accompaniment of its growing power—but only up to a point.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, Middle East, Pakistan, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-03-16T10:10:50+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Zardari&#8217;s Courage]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/zardaris-courage</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/zardaris-courage#When:12:50:29Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[To promote a détente, the U.S.should support Pakistan's embattled president, Asif Ali Zardari, in his escalating struggle with the generals in Islamabad over the terms of peace with New Delhi.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-03-05T12:50:29+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[America Builds Pashtunistan]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/america-builds-pashtunistan</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/america-builds-pashtunistan#When:08:40:05Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Pressures to stop drone attacks on suspected terrorist hideouts in the tribal border regions of Pakistan focus properly ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Advocacy, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-02-28T08:40:05+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Memorial to Purposelessness]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/memorial-to-purposelessness</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/memorial-to-purposelessness#When:09:09:13Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[This week marks the one-year anniversary of the US military offensive into Marjah in Helmand Province in southern]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Arms & Security Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Advocacy, Policy Research, Transparency & Accountability, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-02-16T09:09:13+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[US Shouldn&#8217;t Interfere with man&#8217;s trial in Pakistan]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us-shouldnt-interfere-with-mans-trial-in-pakistan</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us-shouldnt-interfere-with-mans-trial-in-pakistan#When:10:36:08Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[A pistol-packin' private American security contractor on a motorcycle kills two Pakistani civilians allegedly attempting ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Advocacy, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-02-08T10:36:08+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Free Baluchistan]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/free-baluchistan</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/free-baluchistan#When:09:07:18Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[As the Islamist nightmare envelops Pakistan, the Obama administration ponders what the United States should do. But the bitter reality is that the United States is already doing too much in Pakistan. It is the American shadow everywhere, the Pakistani feeling of being smothered by the U.S. embrace, that gives the Islamists their principal rallying cry.
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      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Advocacy, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-02-01T09:07:18+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Mumbai&#8217;s American dead continue to go unavenged]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/mumbais-american-dead-continue-to-go-unavenged</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/mumbais-american-dead-continue-to-go-unavenged#When:09:58:49Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[In the days of the Barbary pirates, the infant U.S. Navy swiftly avenged attacks on American lives and property. But after six Americans were among the more than 160 killed in the Mumbai terrorist attacks of November 2008, America's leaders wrung their hands and did nothing.
]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Advocacy, Policy Research,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-01-21T09:58:49+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Letter from A Serviceman in Afghanistan]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/letter-from-a-serviceman-in-afghanistan</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/letter-from-a-serviceman-in-afghanistan#When:10:50:59Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The below is an email I received last week from a friend of mine in the Army on his second combat deployment to Afghanistan. In addition to his two Afghan deployments, he has fought for our country in both Iraq wars.
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      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Arms & Security Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-01-12T10:50:59+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[In 2011 Remember the Wounded]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/in-2011-remember-the-wounded</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/in-2011-remember-the-wounded#When:11:01:31Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[While the numbers of Americans killed in service in Afghanistan are often reported, the numbers of the wounded are under-reported
]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Arms & Security Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-01-06T11:01:31+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Perhaps a Good Step in Afghanistan]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/perhaps-a-good-step-in-afghanistan</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/perhaps-a-good-step-in-afghanistan#When:10:59:52Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[At this time details are limited, so it is impossible to know the particulars or the underpinnings of the deal, but there are a few reasons to be optimistic.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Afghanistan Study Group, Middle East, Afghanistan, Advocacy, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2011-01-05T10:59:52+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Panetta and Obama Gut CIA Oversight]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/panetta-and-obama-gut-cia-oversight</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/panetta-and-obama-gut-cia-oversight#When:15:57:24Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama and CIA Director Leon Panetta have managed to accomplish what the Bush administration and three CIA directors failed to do over a five-year period ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, National Security Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-11-29T15:57:24+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[It is Much Easier to Proclaim Progress than Conduct Oversight]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/much-easier-to-proclaim-progress-than-conduct-oversight</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/much-easier-to-proclaim-progress-than-conduct-oversight#When:21:46:55Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[When we launched the Afghanistan Study Group project and presented our first report in September, I read the following quote from one of America's commanding generals ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Afghanistan Study Group, Middle East, Afghanistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-11-23T21:46:55+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Selig S Harrison: US Role and Indo-Pak Ties]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/selig-s-harrison-us-role-and-indo-pak-ties</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/selig-s-harrison-us-role-and-indo-pak-ties#When:14:46:37Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[“Obama Mission: Billions to Pakistan, Billions From India” — This screaming headline in the Times of India ahead of President Obama’s visit to New Delhi explains why]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-11-11T14:46:37+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Veterans&#8217; Trust Fund]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-veterans-trust-fund</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-veterans-trust-fund#When:08:17:55Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[What are you doing on Veterans Day? Taking the day off? Sleeping in? Catching a parade? Going shopping? How about taking five minutes to make a difference in the lives 
]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Win Without War, Middle East, Afghanistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-11-11T08:17:55+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[U.S. Still in Afghanistan in 2014? Obama Say it Ain&#8217;t So!]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us-still-in-afghanistan-2014-obama-say-it-aint-so</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us-still-in-afghanistan-2014-obama-say-it-aint-so#When:20:42:52Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[If the administration decides to continue the current strategy through 2014, it would directly contradict President Obama's own directive, which states that there should be an "accelerated transition to Afghan authorities beginning in July 2011" ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Afghanistan Study Group, Middle East, Afghanistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-11-10T20:42:52+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Support, Don’t Promote, Democracy Abroad]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/support-dont-promote-democracy-abroad</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/support-dont-promote-democracy-abroad#When:14:49:09Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The debate rages over what and how much world leaders and other senior officials should and should not say in public about the actions and policies of countries other]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia, Middle East, Pakistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-11-10T14:49:09+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Wartime Interagency Collaboration: A Tale of Two Articles]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/wartime-interagency-collaboration-a-tale-of-two-articles</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/wartime-interagency-collaboration-a-tale-of-two-articles#When:18:51:57Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[From November 2002 to April 2004 I was the junior Marine officer on the personal staff of the Secretary of the Navy. My duties primarily related to correspondence]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Afghanistan Study Group, Middle East, Afghanistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-11-09T18:51:57+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Pakistan Divides U.S. and India]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pakistan-divides-us-india</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pakistan-divides-us-india#When:09:09:48Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA["Obama Mission: Billions to Pakistan, Billions From India" — This screaming headline in the Times of India ahead of President Obama's visit to New Delhi explains why a quiet crisis is developing in what seems, on the surface, to be an increasingly promising relationship between the world's two largest democracies.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Arms & Security Project, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-11-08T09:09:48+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[110 Months in Afghanistan: How Do You Say Hubris in Russian?]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/how-do-you-say-hubris-in-russian</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/how-do-you-say-hubris-in-russian#When:08:12:58Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[In a few weeks the US will mark its 110th month of combat operations in Afghanistan -- the same length of time as the Soviet Union's own military presence in that country.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Afghanistan Study Group, Middle East, Afghanistan, Europe & Russia, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-11-08T08:12:58+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Midterms and the Role of Domestic Politics in Foreign Policy]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/midterms-and-role-of-domestic-politics-in-foreign-policy</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/midterms-and-role-of-domestic-politics-in-foreign-policy#When:01:51:37Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[By the time this is posted the polls for America's 2010 midterm elections will have closed. This year's midterm elections bore many similarities to our nation's last midterm ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Afghanistan Study Group, Middle East, Afghanistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-11-03T01:51:37+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Reconciliation and Women&#8217;s Rights in Afghanistan]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/reconciliation-and-womens-rights-in-afghanistan</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/reconciliation-and-womens-rights-in-afghanistan#When:12:42:33Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[I had the pleasure last week of being interviewed alongside noted author and human rights advocate Ann Jones. The conversation focused on the reports of negotiations]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Afghanistan Study Group, Middle East, Afghanistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-10-27T12:42:33+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Cautious Optimism for Talks in Afghanistan]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/cautious-optimism-for-talks-in-afghanistan</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/cautious-optimism-for-talks-in-afghanistan#When:12:02:18Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Yesterday's reports by the New York Times and the Associated Press provide a few reasons for cautious optimism that US policy may be shifting towards a more sensible]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Afghanistan Study Group, Middle East, Afghanistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-10-21T12:02:18+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Uses and Misuses of Intelligence in Four US Wars]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-uses-and-misuses-of-intelligence-in-four-us-wars</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-uses-and-misuses-of-intelligence-in-four-us-wars#When:17:17:52Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[President Harry S. Truman created the Central Intelligence Agency in 1947 to ensure that the policy community would have access to independent intelligence analysis ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, National Security Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-10-15T17:17:52+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Bob Woodward&#8217;s &#8220;Obama&#8217;s Wars&#8221; and the Importance of Reportage]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/obamas-wars-and-importance-of-reportage</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/obamas-wars-and-importance-of-reportage#When:12:41:13Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Bob Woodward's "Obama's Wars" offers a disturbing account of President Barack Obama's lack of leadership and the flawed decision-making practices of his national security team.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, National Security Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-10-06T12:41:13+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[An Inside Look at the Afghan Debacle]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/an-inside-look-at-afghan-debacle</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/an-inside-look-at-afghan-debacle#When:13:00:40Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Although Woodward never explicitly says so, he makes a strong case that President Obama has redefined and expanded a war that neither he nor his leading advisers believe ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, National Security Project, Middle East, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-10-05T13:00:40+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[China&#8217;s Discrete Hold on Pakistan&#8217;s Northern Borderlands]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/chinas-discreet-hold-on-pakistans-northern-borderlands</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/chinas-discreet-hold-on-pakistans-northern-borderlands#When:12:29:51Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[While the world focuses on the flood-ravaged Indus River valley, a quiet geopolitical crisis is unfolding in the Himalayan borderlands of northern Pakistan, where Islamabad is handing over de facto control of the strategic Gilgit-Baltistan region in the northwest corner of disputed Kashmir to China.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, Middle East, Pakistan, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-08-26T12:29:51+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[How to Leave Afghanistan Without Losing]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/how-to-leave-afghanistan-without-losing</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/how-to-leave-afghanistan-without-losing#When:12:40:41Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[As prospects for an early U.S.-NATO military victory in Afghanistan fade and pressures for the withdrawal of U.S. combat forces grow, the ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, Middle East, Afghanistan, Advocacy, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-08-25T12:40:41+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Obama&#8217;s Bungled Military Strategies - Part III]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/obamas-bungled-military-strategies-part-iii</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/obamas-bungled-military-strategies-part-iii#When:16:47:58Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama inherited a difficult national security situation — wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; an exaggerated and counterproductive war on terror ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, National Security Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-07-08T16:47:58+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[A Smart Pashtun Play: Why Washington Should Back Karzai]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/why-washington-should-back-karzai</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/why-washington-should-back-karzai#When:20:00:17Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[While the U.S. struggles to get its act together in Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai, widely ridiculed as corrupt and ineffectual, is consolidating his power ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-07-05T20:00:17+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[U.S. Aid Fuels Dangerous Deal in Pakistan]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us-aid-fuels-dangerous-deal-in-pakistan</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us-aid-fuels-dangerous-deal-in-pakistan#When:10:46:06Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[With one hand, Pakistan scoops up its multiplying millions in US aid. With the other, it buys nuclear reactors from China that will give it the capability to add 24 nuclear weapons per year to its estimated existing arsenal of 70 to 90]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-06-29T10:46:06+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Pentagon Threat to the Republic]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pentagon-threat-to-the-republic</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pentagon-threat-to-the-republic#When:13:28:43Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The New York Times' David Brooks minimized General Stanley McChrystal's remarks in Rolling Stone magazine as "kvetching."]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, National Security Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-06-28T13:28:43+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Pentagon&#8217;s Threat to the Republic]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-pentagons-threat-to-the-republic</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-pentagons-threat-to-the-republic#When:10:52:20Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The New York Times' David Brooks minimized General Stanley McChrystal's remarks in Rolling Stone magazine as "kvetching." For the Times' Maureen Dowd, McChrystal ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, National Security Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-06-28T10:52:20+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Pakistan&#8217;s Ethnic Fault Line]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pakistans-ethnic-fault-line</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pakistans-ethnic-fault-line#When:11:26:41Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[To American eyes the struggle raging in Pakistan with the Taliban is about religious fanaticism. But in Pakistan it is about an explosive fusion of Islamist zeal and ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-05-11T11:26:41+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Barack hasn&#8217;t Banned the Bomb]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/barack-hasnt-banned-the-bomb</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/barack-hasnt-banned-the-bomb#When:13:27:27Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Although the Nobel peace prize committee believed Barack Obama is passionately committed to nuclear downsizing, if not disarmament, the US president may be no more successful in controlling the hawks than he was with the banks and, for a long time, the health insurers]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Arms & Security Project, Asia, Middle East, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-04-06T13:27:27+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Benjamin Netanyahu the Intransigent]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/benjamin-netanyahu-the-intransigent</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/benjamin-netanyahu-the-intransigent#When:12:07:55Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Former Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban once said that the Palestinians "never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity." Well, the same can be said for the Israelis
]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, National Security Project, Middle East, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-03-23T12:07:55+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Too Much Bang, Bang: The Need to Demilitarize US National Security]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/need-to-demilitarize-us-national-security</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/need-to-demilitarize-us-national-security#When:15:32:36Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Secretary of Defense Robert Gates gave a provocative and even dangerous speech at the National Defense University (NDU) last week]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, National Security Project, Americas, Middle East, Afghanistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-03-17T15:32:36+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Iraq, Iran, and the United States]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/iraq-iran-united-states</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/iraq-iran-united-states#When:13:41:02Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The 2003 American invasion of Iraq aroused both anxiety and hope in Iran. The advent of U.S. military forces and bases on its western border posed a potential threat to its security.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-03-17T13:41:02+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Goodness Gracious, David Ignatius]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/goodness-gracious-david-ignatius</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/goodness-gracious-david-ignatius#When:10:26:57Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Under the stewardship of neoconservative Fred Hiatt, the editorial and op-ed pages of The Washington Post have steadily moved to the right; the paper's key writers ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, National Security Project, Middle East, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2010-01-11T10:26:57+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Tehran&#8217;s Biggest Fear]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/tehrans-biggest-fear</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/tehrans-biggest-fear#When:13:55:38Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The biggest threat to the ruling ayatollahs and generals in multi-ethnic Iran does not come from the embattled]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-12-27T13:55:38+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[How to Exit Afghanistan]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/how-to-exit-afghanistan</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/how-to-exit-afghanistan#When:12:57:59Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[With the Taliban growing steadily stronger, 30,000 more US troops will not lead to the early disengagement from the Afghan quagmire envisaged by President Obama]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Advocacy, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-12-22T12:57:59+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[High Noon in the White House]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/high-noon-in-the-white-house</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/high-noon-in-the-white-house#When:14:14:07Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama noted last week after accepting the Nobel Peace Prize that the United States]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, National Security Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-12-14T14:14:07+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Logistical Nightmares May Doom U.S. Surge in Afghanistan]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/logistical-nightmares-may-doom-us-surge-afghanistan</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/logistical-nightmares-may-doom-us-surge-afghanistan#When:14:20:13Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Logistics will be the key to introducing 30,000 soldiers and Marines into Afghanistan in the next six to seven months]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, National Security Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-12-08T14:20:13+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Strategy and Logistics in Afghanistan: Flawed Thinking]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/strategy-and-logistics-in-afghanistan-flawed-thinking</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/strategy-and-logistics-in-afghanistan-flawed-thinking#When:14:24:27Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Logistics will be the key to introducing 30,000 soldiers and Marines into Afghanistan in the next six to seven months]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, National Security Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-12-04T14:24:27+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Remarks by Selig Harrison, Director, Asia Program, Center for International Policy]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/remarks-by-selig-harrison-director-asia-program-center-for-international</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/remarks-by-selig-harrison-director-asia-program-center-for-international#When:14:41:03Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Scripture for me on the subject of Pakistan is an important book called the Shadow of the Great Game: the Untold Story of India’s Partition, by Narendra Singh Sarila, a retired Indian diplomat who was the ADC to Mountbatten.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Speech,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-11-21T14:41:03+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[From Kabul to Kashmir]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/from-kabul-to-kashmir</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/from-kabul-to-kashmir#When:15:20:55Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[By all rights, the United States and India should be bound together by the shared tragedies of 9/11 and last year's terrorist attacks in Mumbai]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-11-13T15:20:55+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Obama&#8217;s Choices in the Afghan War]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/obamas-choices-in-the-afghan-war</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/obamas-choices-in-the-afghan-war#When:16:34:10Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The issue is not whether President Obama is stubborn enough to stick to an earlier ill-advised judgment that the United States]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Afghanistan Study Group, Middle East, Afghanistan, Letter,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-10-30T16:34:10+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Washington Post Creates Its Own Facts to Support Afghan Nation-Building]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/washington-post-creates-own-facts-to-support-afghan-nation-building</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/washington-post-creates-own-facts-to-support-afghan-nation-building#When:16:50:37Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The Washington Post is creating its own facts in order to support its argument for US nation-building in Afghanistan]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, National Security Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-10-22T16:50:37+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Ethnic Split]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-ethnic-split</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-ethnic-split#When:16:52:46Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Alexander the Great, the British Raj and the Red Army all learned the hard way that the Pashtuns, Afghanistan's largest and historically dominant ethnic group]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-10-21T16:52:46+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Overcoming Our Failed Strategy Afghanistan]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/overcoming-our-failed-strategy-afghanistan</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/overcoming-our-failed-strategy-afghanistan#When:16:57:32Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[THE KEY to getting out of Afghanistan without turning Kabul over to the Taliban lies in replacing the failed US “Af-Pak’’ strategy with a new regional approach]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-10-12T16:57:32+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Prospect of Change in US Relations with Russia, Iran and Afghanistan Alarms the Washington Post]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/prospect-of-change-in-relations-with-russia-iran-afghanistan</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/prospect-of-change-in-relations-with-russia-iran-afghanistan#When:17:00:34Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The Washington Post is running scared these days with its editorial writers having great difficulty coming to terms with the possibility of improved US relations]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, National Security Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Europe & Russia, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-10-09T17:00:34+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Five Myths on Afghanistan]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/five-myths-on-afghanistan</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/five-myths-on-afghanistan#When:16:59:16Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama is entering a crucial decision-making phase on Afghanistan at a time when geopolitical mythology is dominating the debate]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, National Security Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-10-02T16:59:16+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[WPost’s Neocons Aim Their Editorial Guns At Iran]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/wposts-neocons-aim-their-editorial-guns-at-iran</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/wposts-neocons-aim-their-editorial-guns-at-iran#When:11:24:36Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The neocon editorial writers at the Washington Post used the run-up to the Geneva meetings between the United States and Iran to marginalize]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, National Security Project, Middle East, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-10-02T11:24:36+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Exaggeration of the Threat: Then and Now]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/exaggeration-of-the-threat-then-and-now</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/exaggeration-of-the-threat-then-and-now#When:15:11:41Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[A recently declassified study on Soviet intentions during the Cold War identifies significant failures in U.S. intelligence analysis on Soviet military intentions]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, National Security Project, Middle East, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-09-14T15:11:41+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Two More Obstacles to Intelligence Reform]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/two-more-obstacles-to-intelligence-reform</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/two-more-obstacles-to-intelligence-reform#When:15:15:46Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The appointment of former Central Intelligence Agency director Michael Hayden to the Public Interest Declassification Board (PIDB) and former senator Warren Rudman ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, National Security Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-09-10T15:15:46+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Déjà Vu All Over Again: The Media Beats the War Drums for Afghanistan]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/media-beats-the-war-drums-for-afghanistan</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/media-beats-the-war-drums-for-afghanistan#When:15:18:30Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama is currently facing the most two important decisions of his young presidency. On Wednesday, we will learn whether he has the intestinal fortitude ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, National Security Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-09-08T15:18:30+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Washington Post Redux: Going from the Sublime to the Ridiculous]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/going-from-the-sublime-to-the-ridiculous</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/going-from-the-sublime-to-the-ridiculous#When:16:49:51Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[It only took 24 hours for the Washington Post to go from the sublime to the ridiculous. On Saturday morning, the newspaper described the mastermind of 9/11, Khalid Sheik 
]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, National Security Project, Middle East, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-08-31T16:49:51+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Exposed: The WPost’s One-Sided Account of Torture and Abuse]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/wposts-one-sided-account-of-torture-and-abuse</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/wposts-one-sided-account-of-torture-and-abuse#When:16:47:57Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The lead story in today’s Washington Post, headlined “How a Detainee Became An Asset,” provides a one-sided and distorted account of the torture and abuse of Khalid Sheikh ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, National Security Project, Middle East, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-08-29T16:47:57+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Washington Post Goes Judge Shopping in the Courthouse]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/washington-post-goes-judge-shopping-in-the-courthouse</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/washington-post-goes-judge-shopping-in-the-courthouse#When:17:18:29Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The Washington Post continues to campaign against any accountability for the detentions policies of the Central Intelligence Agency, using its own editorials and ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Middle East, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-08-25T17:18:29+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Afghanistan&#8217;s Tyranny of the Minority]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/afghanistans-tyranny-of-the-minority</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/afghanistans-tyranny-of-the-minority#When:14:49:27Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[AS the debate intensifies within the Obama administration over how to stabilize Afghanistan, one major problem is conspicuously missing from the discussion: the growing alienation of the country’s largest ethnic group, the Pashtun tribes, who make up an estimated 42 percent of the population of 33 million]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, Middle East, Afghanistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-08-16T14:49:27+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Other Islamist Threat in Pakistan]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-other-islamist-threat-in-pakistan1</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-other-islamist-threat-in-pakistan1#When:14:39:34Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The danger of an Islamist takeover of Pakistan is real. But it does not come from the Taliban guerrillas now battling the Pakistan Army in the Swat borderlands.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, Middle East, Pakistan, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-06-17T14:39:34+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Pakistan&#8217;s Ethnic Fault Line]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pakistans-ethnic-fault-line1</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pakistans-ethnic-fault-line1#When:17:10:37Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[To American eyes the struggle raging in Pakistan with the Taliban is about religious fanaticism. But in Pakistan it is about an explosive fusion of Islamist zeal and simmering ethnic tensions that have been exacerbated by U.S. pressures for military action against the Taliban and its al-Qaeda allies]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, Middle East, Pakistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-05-11T17:10:37+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Face Down Pakistani Army]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/face-down-pakistani-army</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/face-down-pakistani-army#When:11:09:08Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Unless the Obama administration can get Pakistan's army to stop supporting the Taliban with weapons and logistical support, the insurgency will continue to threaten the U.S.-supported Kabul government — no matter how many more troops the U.S. sends to Afghanistan.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, Middle East, Pakistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-04-01T11:09:08+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[President Obama&#8217;s Briar Patch]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/president-obamas-briar-patch</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/president-obamas-briar-patch#When:11:24:21Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Alexander the Great couldn’t do; Queen Victoria couldn’t do it; three successive Soviet general-secretaries from 1979 to 1985 couldn’t do it. Both his writings and his first two months in office indicate that President Obama is a man of great confidence and persistence.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, National Security Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-03-29T11:24:21+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Robert Gates&#8217;s Big Lie On The Iraq War]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/robert-gatess-big-lie-on-the-iraq-war1</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/robert-gatess-big-lie-on-the-iraq-war1#When:10:55:27Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[In 1985, President Ronald Reagan nominated Robert Gates to be director of central intelligence (DCI), but he was denied confirmation because]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, National Security Project, Middle East, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-03-13T10:55:27+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Israeli Lobby Knocks Down Charles Freeman]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/israeli-lobby-knocks-down-charles-freeman</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/israeli-lobby-knocks-down-charles-freeman#When:11:51:07Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Israel is capable of debating sensitive national security issues dealing with a variety of Israeli-Arab issues, but this does not appear to be possible in the United States. During the presidential campaign last fall, Barack Obama told a Jewish gathering in Cleveland that he was “struck” while visiting]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, National Security Project, Middle East, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-03-12T11:51:07+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Kashmir Issue Leading Obama into First &#8216;Tar Pit&#8217;]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/kashmir-issue-leading-obama-into-first-tar-pit</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/kashmir-issue-leading-obama-into-first-tar-pit#When:13:42:22Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[President-elect Barack Obama has made his first big foreign-policy mistake - pledging U.S. intervention in the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan.  While the Kashmir issue "is obviously a tar pit diplomatically," he announced, one of the "critical tasks" for his administration]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2009-01-06T13:42:22+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Support to Pakistan Distorts Asia&#8217;s Balance of Power]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/support-to-pakistan-distorts-asias-balance-of-power</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/support-to-pakistan-distorts-asias-balance-of-power#When:15:00:21Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Pakistan sinks deeper into political gridlock and Al Qaeda continues to operate unhindered in its territory, but the Pentagon gravy train bringing American weaponry for its armed forces races full speed ahead on autopilot]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, Middle East, Pakistan, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2008-09-27T15:00:21+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Iraq, Bush and the &#8216;Time Horizon&#8217;]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/iraq-bush-and-the-time-horizon</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/iraq-bush-and-the-time-horizon#When:15:54:07Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Iran is never mentioned when President George W. Bush explains what led to his surprising acceptance]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Advocacy, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2008-07-28T15:54:07+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[How Obama Could Tame Iran]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/how-obama-could-tame-iran</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/how-obama-could-tame-iran#When:15:58:14Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Assume that Barack Obama is elected U.S. president this fall and makes good on his promise to ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Advocacy, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2008-07-26T15:58:14+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[All-out war - or talking?]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/all-out-war-or-talking</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/all-out-war-or-talking#When:16:43:51Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Did President Bush recognize that invading Iraq and destroying a dictatorship controlled by the Sunni ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Advocacy, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2008-05-27T16:43:51+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Iran, Iraq, and the United States: The View from Tehran]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/iran-iraq-and-the-united-states-view-from-tehran</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/iran-iraq-and-the-united-states-view-from-tehran#When:15:05:58Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Remarks by Selig S. Harrison, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Director, Asia Program, Center for Intern]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Speech,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2008-05-14T15:05:58+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Working with Iran to Stabilize Iraq]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/working-with-iran-to-stabilize-iraq</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/working-with-iran-to-stabilize-iraq#When:16:47:20Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[International concern over Iran's nuclear program continues to smolder. But from Iran's perspective ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Advocacy, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2008-03-20T16:47:20+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Pressuring Pakistan to Curb the Taliban]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pressuring-pakistan-to-curb-the-taliban</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pressuring-pakistan-to-curb-the-taliban#When:16:05:45Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Despite growing evidence of Pakistani support for the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan, the Bush ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Advocacy, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2008-02-19T16:05:45+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[What A.Q. Khan Knows]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/what-aq-khan-knows</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/what-aq-khan-knows#When:15:52:42Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Either Kim Jong Il or Pervez Musharraf is lying about whether Pakistan's Dr. Strangelove, Abdul]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, North Korea, Middle East, Pakistan, Advocacy, Transparency & Accountability, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2008-01-31T15:52:42+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Intelligence Community Learned From Iraq Debacle]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/intelligence-community-learned-from-iraq-debacle</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/intelligence-community-learned-from-iraq-debacle#When:15:49:16Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[U.S intelligence agencies have concluded in a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) that Iran halted its ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, National Security Project, Middle East, Advocacy, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2007-12-06T15:49:16+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Beware Pashtunistan]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/beware-pashtunistan</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/beware-pashtunistan#When:14:09:25Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Benazir Bhutto's narrow escape from assassination recently was a grim reminder she'll be lucky to get through the coming election alive]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Middle East, Pakistan, Advocacy, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2007-11-12T14:09:25+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The US Meddles Aggressively in Iran]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-us-meddles-aggressively-in-iran</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-us-meddles-aggressively-in-iran#When:15:28:31Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The battle lines are familiar and clearly drawn in the unresolved policy struggle over Iran within the Bush administration]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2007-10-13T15:28:31+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Sanctions Won&#8217;t Stop Tehran]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/sanctions-wont-stop-tehran</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/sanctions-wont-stop-tehran#When:15:17:02Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Suppose that the Bush administration abandons its campaign for economic sanctions, tones down talk of war and opens direct negotiations with Iran about its nuclear program.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Advocacy, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2007-10-02T15:17:02+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Remarks by Tom Andrews, National Director of Win Without War]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/remarks-by-tom-andrews-national-director-of-win-without-war</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/remarks-by-tom-andrews-national-director-of-win-without-war#When:11:21:39Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[A resolution of the deepening crisis in Iraq can only be achieved through political negotiation and compromise. As most independent observers]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Win Without War, Middle East, Speech,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2007-08-30T11:21:39+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Citizens Need to Demand Answers on War]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/citizens-need-to-demand-answers-on-war</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/citizens-need-to-demand-answers-on-war#When:11:28:46Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The November election changed majority control in the House and Senate from Republican to Democratic. The immediate consensus]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Middle East, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2007-07-29T11:28:46+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Iran is America&#8217;s Best Hope for Stability in the Gulf]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/iran-is-americas-best-hope-for-stability-in-the-gulf</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/iran-is-americas-best-hope-for-stability-in-the-gulf#When:15:35:58Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Iran is ready to help the US stabilise both Iraq and Afghanistan, but only for a price]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Policy Research,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2007-06-20T15:35:58+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Tenet&#8217;s defense of the indefensible]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/tenets-defense-of-the-indefensible1</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/tenets-defense-of-the-indefensible1#When:11:52:16Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[George J. Tenet's At the Center of the Storm is a self-serving and misleading account of his role in helping the Bush administration make its private and public case to go to war against Iraq. ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Middle East, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2007-05-07T11:52:16+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[New Talks Needed for Progress]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/new-talks-needed-for-progress</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/new-talks-needed-for-progress#When:12:07:47Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[In the last half of 2002 and early 2003, the American public-distracted and fearful of terrorism in 9-11's aftermath were inundated with deceptive propaganda designed to elicit the people's support for a preemptive attack on Iraq. An invasion that President Bush had secretly touted as his prime foreign policy objective in January 2001 at the first meeting of the National Security Council.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Middle East, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2007-04-27T12:07:47+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Symbol of Injustice]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/symbol-of-injustice</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/symbol-of-injustice#When:12:13:52Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The confessions of Khalid Sheik Mohammed, given on Feb. 10 at Guantanamo and released on Feb. 14, grabbed headlines all over the U.S. And no wonder. Mohammed, a right-hand man of Osama bin Laden, virtually boasted of being the mastermind behind the 9-11 terrorist attacks and many other acts of violence. He himself, he said, had personally beheaded the American journalist Daniel Pearl.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Middle East, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2007-03-27T12:13:52+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Discarding an Afghan Opportunity]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/discarding-an-afghan-opportunity</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/discarding-an-afghan-opportunity#When:14:43:17Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The British Raj learned the hard way a century ago that the Pashtuns, Afghanistan's largest and historically dominant ethnic group, will unite to fight a foreign occupation force simply because it is foreign. ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2007-01-30T14:43:17+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[London Speech on Balochistan (audio)]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/london-speech-on-balochistan</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/london-speech-on-balochistan#When:14:52:24Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Selig Harrison's speech on Balochistan at FPC Seminar in London ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Advocacy, Policy Research, Speech,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2007-01-01T14:52:24+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Study Leaves Impression It&#8217;s Still About Oil]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/study-leaves-impression-its-still-about-oil</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/study-leaves-impression-its-still-about-oil#When:15:40:55Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The Iraq Study Group report has produced a comprehensive and informed repudiation of President Bush and his administration's failed Iraqi invasion and occupation.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Middle East, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-12-15T15:40:55+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Danger of Doing as Bush Does]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/danger-of-doing-as-bush-does</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/danger-of-doing-as-bush-does#When:15:52:47Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Tony Blair certainly thought he was doing the right thing when he endorsed his friend George Bush's invasion of Iraq and sent in British troops to support that invasion. After all]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Americas, Cuba, Middle East, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-12-03T15:52:47+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Time to Sweep Away Secrecy and Corruption]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/time-to-sweep-away-secrecy-and-corruption</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/time-to-sweep-away-secrecy-and-corruption#When:12:47:38Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA["A Utopian adventure headed for disaster" headlined one of five articles published in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel that I wrote four years ago, opposing the U.S. invasion of Iraq. That it is a disaster is unquestionable, as the voters have decided.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Middle East, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-11-24T12:47:38+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Unravelling of Pakistan]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-unravelling-of-pakistan</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-unravelling-of-pakistan#When:13:08:39Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Pakistan gets American attention primarily because it is a hotbed of Al Qaeda activity and a staging area for the Taliban campaign to recapture Afghanistan. But the most important and least-noticed news about multi-ethnic Pakistan is that it is slowly falling apart as tensions grow between its Punjabi-dominated military regime and its restive ethnic minority regions of Baluchistan and Sindh.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-11-01T13:08:39+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Radical Change of Policy is Necessary]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/radical-change-of-policy-is-necessary</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/radical-change-of-policy-is-necessary#When:13:17:18Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[President Bush finally displayed a chink in his armor of absolute certainty by admitting that New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman "may be right" in equating public reaction to the carnage in Iraq and the response to the Tet offensive in Vietnam. But in the same ABC News interview, he falls back on his tired old refrain of blaming al-Qaida for "the stepped-up violence" and "trying to foment sectarian violence."]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Middle East, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-10-27T13:17:18+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The American People Can Stop This Train]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-american-people-can-stop-this-train</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-american-people-can-stop-this-train#When:16:31:38Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[George W. Bush promised "a humble foreign policy" and rejection of "nation-building" in his 2000 presidential campaign. They were the first of a]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Middle East, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-10-11T16:31:38+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Pakistan&#8217;s Baluch Insurgency]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pakistans-baluch-insurgency</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pakistans-baluch-insurgency#When:16:23:52Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Serious troubles have erupted in the Pakistan province of Baluchistan since the assassination of an opposition leader in August]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-10-01T16:23:52+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Remarks by Director Selig Harrison at a Forum on &#8220;India, The United States, and The World&#8221;]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/remarks-by-director-selig-harrison-at-a-forum-on-india-the-united-states</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/remarks-by-director-selig-harrison-at-a-forum-on-india-the-united-states#When:16:39:17Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Remarks by Selig S. Harrison at a Forum on “India, The United States and The World,” Cosmos Club, Washington. September 27,2006]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Arms & Security Project, Asia Project, Asia, Middle East, Advocacy, Policy Research, Speech,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-09-27T16:39:17+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Is Pakistan Friend or Foe?]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/is-pakistan-friend-or-foe</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/is-pakistan-friend-or-foe#When:12:57:31Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf is supposedly a key U.S. ally in the "war on terror." But is he, in fact, more of a liability than an asset in combating Al Qaeda and the increasingly menacing Taliban forces in Afghanistan?]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-09-05T12:57:31+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Forgotten Bargain]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-forgotten-bargain</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-forgotten-bargain#When:12:41:56Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[In the debate over how to stop nuclear proliferation, both sides make increasingly untenable assumptions. The advocates of “regime change” in North Korea and Iran underestimate the staying power of the political systems in Pyongyang and Tehran.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, North Korea, Middle East, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-09-01T12:41:56+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[A New Hub for Terrorism?]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/a-new-hub-for-terrorism</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/a-new-hub-for-terrorism#When:13:12:00Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[While the United States dithers, a growing Islamic fundamentalist movement linked to al-Qaeda and Pakistani intelligence agencies is steadily converting the strategically]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-08-02T13:12:00+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Mass Punishment Beyond Proportionality]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/mass-punishment-beyond-proportionality</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/mass-punishment-beyond-proportionality#When:13:18:55Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[President Bush's crude dismissal of the deadly rerun of Israel's 1982 Lebanon invasion -- "What they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Middle East, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-07-28T13:18:55+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Social And Military Tactics Boomeranged]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/social-and-military-tactics-boomeranged</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/social-and-military-tactics-boomeranged#When:16:38:01Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The Bush administration's belated rationale for the Iraqi war -- establishing democracy -- is deceptive and hypocritical. True democracy requires]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Middle East, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-06-29T16:38:01+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Public Still Owed Honesty About War]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/public-still-owed-honesty-about-war</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/public-still-owed-honesty-about-war#When:16:45:41Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[By manipulating Americans' fear of WMD and their thirst for revenge over the 9-11 attacks, President Bush was able to rush the U.S. to war in Iraq. When]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Middle East, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-06-16T16:45:41+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[No Matter What They Say, It&#8217;s Still About Oil]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/no-matter-what-they-say-its-still-about-oil</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/no-matter-what-they-say-its-still-about-oil#When:12:03:46Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[We are now witnessing another fear-inducing barrage of propaganda mirroring the exaggeration and deception that led to the ongoing debacle in Iraq. This time]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Middle East, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-05-12T12:03:46+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[A Game Of Our Own Making]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/a-game-of-our-own-making</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/a-game-of-our-own-making#When:12:09:12Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Further, U.S. threats to use nuclear or conventional weapons against Iran not only contravene our commitments under the NPT, but are counterproductive]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Middle East, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-05-02T12:09:12+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[How to Regulate Nuclear Weapons The U.S. Deal With India Could Be a Good Starting Point]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/how-to-regulate-nukes-deal-with-india-good-starting-point</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/how-to-regulate-nukes-deal-with-india-good-starting-point#When:12:12:56Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Why should India, with a spotless nonproliferation record, be denied access to U.S. civilian nuclear technology for electricity, while China -- which helped Pakistan]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, Middle East, Pakistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-04-23T12:12:56+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Where Is Outrage Over Lies?]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/where-is-outrage-over-lies</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/where-is-outrage-over-lies#When:12:25:31Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[President Bush's reported statements that he couldn't recall any mistakes he might have made during his presidency have been rebutted by Secretary of State]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Middle East, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-04-17T12:25:31+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Keeping Gross Violators Off New Council]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/keeping-gross-violators-off-new-council</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/keeping-gross-violators-off-new-council#When:11:20:21Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[On March 15, the United Nations General Assembly, by an overwhelming vote of 170-4, approved the creation of a new Human Rights Council, to replace the old, discredited Human Rights Commission.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Middle East, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-03-31T11:20:21+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[More &#8216;Evidence&#8217; To Justify A New War?]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/more-evidence-to-justify-a-new-war</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/more-evidence-to-justify-a-new-war#When:13:21:05Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[President Bush's current campaign to build up support for an attack on Iran reminds me of the WWII-era song I've Heard That Song Before, as we experience a ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Middle East, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-03-23T13:21:05+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Human Rights Violators]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/human-rights-violators</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/human-rights-violators#When:11:25:00Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The European Union has assured the United States that its members would keep notorious rights violators off the proposed new United Nations human rights council, which is opposed by the United States but supported by human rights groups and virtually all other United Nations members. ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Middle East, Letter,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-03-18T11:25:00+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[A Nuclear Partnership with India]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/a-nuclear-partnership-with-india</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/a-nuclear-partnership-with-india#When:15:59:20Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[After decades of tensions with New Delhi, the Bush administration is moving steadily to establish a new strategic partnership to strengthen India as a counterweight to China in the Asian balance of power.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Arms & Security Project, Asia Project, Asia, Middle East, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-03-02T15:59:20+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[U.S. Should Not Cut Off Palestinians]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us-should-not-cut-off-palestinians</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us-should-not-cut-off-palestinians#When:13:27:06Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[President Bush has discovered that his laudable position on exporting democracy to the Middle East can have unpredicted consequences. The Palestinian]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Middle East, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-02-17T13:27:06+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Pakistan&#8217;s Costly &#8216;Other War&#8217;]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pakistans-costly-other-war</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pakistans-costly-other-war#When:16:03:38Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The usual explanation for Pakistan's failure to go all-out against al Qaeda and Taliban forces along the Afghan frontier is that Gen. Pervez Musharraf's armed forces and intelligence services are riddled with Islamic extremists.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Arms & Security Project, Asia Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-02-15T16:03:38+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[It Is Time to Put Security Issues on the Table with Iran]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/it-is-time-to-put-security-issues-on-the-table-with-iran1</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/it-is-time-to-put-security-issues-on-the-table-with-iran1#When:15:33:26Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Diplomacy has failed, it is argued, so it is now time to get tough with Iran. But has diplomacy really been tested? Whether or not the Iranian nuclear]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Middle East, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2006-01-18T15:33:26+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[US Should Scrap Plane Deal With Pakistan]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us-should-scrap-plane-deal-with-pakistan1</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/us-should-scrap-plane-deal-with-pakistan1#When:13:17:04Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[PAKISTAN'S decision to postpone the US-subsidized purchase of 77 nuclear-capable F-16 fighter planes from the ailing Lockheed-Martin Corporation provides an opportunity for the Bush administration and Congress to call off a disastrous deal that the United States should never have proposed in the first place.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Middle East, Pakistan, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2005-11-27T13:17:04+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Some Reports Regarding Iraq Never Made it to Congress]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/some-reports-regarding-iraq-never-made-it-to-congress</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/some-reports-regarding-iraq-never-made-it-to-congress#When:13:23:09Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[President Bush, in defense of his decision to use force in Iraq, contends that Congress supported the decision and that it had access to the same intelligence available to the White House.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, National Security Project, Middle East, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2005-11-23T13:23:09+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The President&#8217;s Exclusive Access]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-presidents-exclusive-access</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/the-presidents-exclusive-access#When:13:28:54Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[President Bush, in defense of his decision to use force in Iraq, contends that the Congress supported the decision and that it had access to the same intelligence available to the White House. Not true!]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Middle East, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2005-11-20T13:28:54+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Bush Veto Threat Doesn&#8217;t Fit His &#8216;Deep Disgust&#8217;]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/bush-veto-threat-doesnt-fit-his-deep-disgust</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/bush-veto-threat-doesnt-fit-his-deep-disgust#When:13:40:12Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Media coverage of the failed Harriet Miers nomination and the indictment of Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby, sidelined a far more important issue for America's future as moral leader of the world: President Bush's threat to veto an amendment to the $450 billion Military Appropriations Bill reaffirming the military's obligation to adhere to the Geneva Conventions' prohibitions on torture.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Middle East, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2005-11-10T13:40:12+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Take Dirty Money off the Table]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/take-dirty-money-off-the-table</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/take-dirty-money-off-the-table#When:14:23:59Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Last month, we marked the fourth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, which jolted the United States to a new understanding of the terrorist threat. After the smoke cleared, a second alarm went off: How did the terrorists pay for the crime?]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Global Financial Integrity, Middle East, Europe & Russia, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2005-10-12T14:23:59+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Bush Administration Deceptions Longstanding and Growing]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/bush-administration-deceptions-longstanding-and-growing</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/bush-administration-deceptions-longstanding-and-growing#When:16:27:40Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The Bush administration and much of the major media either ignored or gave little publicity to the revelations in the "Downing Street Memo" when it was leaked and published in London's Sunday Times close to two months ago. Now the leak has become a flood of memos written by British cabinet ministers that affirm and substantiate its damning statement that "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy." ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia, Middle East, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2005-07-18T16:27:40+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Root Causes of Terrorism]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/root-causes-of-terrorism</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/root-causes-of-terrorism#When:16:33:03Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The British people and many others seem to have been more shocked by the fact that the terrorists who set off those bombs in London the other day were native-born British citizens than that the attack occurred. We should not have been.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Middle East, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2005-06-16T16:33:03+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Was Bustani Ouster Prelude to Iraq War?]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/was-bustani-ouster-prelude-to-iraq-war</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/was-bustani-ouster-prelude-to-iraq-war#When:16:49:26Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The rationales the Bush administration used to promote the Iraq war as necesary to counteract an imminent threat from Iraq have fallen by the wayside. None of the commissions or congressional investigations have gone beyond the facile conclusions that "mistakes were made" or that the intelligence was "dead wrong." No official who gave the orders or held the responsibility has been named. President Bush took his re-election as a referendum on his previous policies, implying that we should move on.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Middle East, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2005-06-10T16:49:26+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[If the intelligence doesn`t fit, bend it]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/if-the-intelligence-doesnt-fit-bend-it</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/if-the-intelligence-doesnt-fit-bend-it#When:11:45:56Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The function of intelligence should be to provide as accurate an assessment as possible of a given situation to guide the formulation of policy.  But the Bush administration doesn`t see it that way;]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Middle East, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2005-06-04T11:45:56+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Investigate Deceptions of War&#8217;s Inception]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/investigate-deceptions-of-wars-inception</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/investigate-deceptions-of-wars-inception#When:10:47:12Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The age-old question -- If a tree fell in the forest and no one heard, would that mean it never made a sound? -- is apropos to a scandal slowly emerging on the international scene.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Middle East, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2005-05-27T10:47:12+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Crafting Intelligence: Iraq, North Korea, and the Road to War]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/crafting-intelligence-iraq-north-korea-road-to-war</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/crafting-intelligence-iraq-north-korea-road-to-war#When:11:23:38Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The latest numbers out of Iraq are some 11,000 Americans wounded in action and some 1,500 dead. The most conservative estimate of non-combatant Iraqis killed is about 15,700. This is happening because the war was sold to the U.S. Congress on the basis of false and misleading intelligence.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, North Korea, Middle East, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2005-03-08T11:23:38+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Where America Stands, What America Does]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/where-america-stands-what-america-does</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/where-america-stands-what-america-does#When:11:40:10Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Exit polls taken during the Nov. 2 presidential election indicated that most Bush voters quoted "moral values" as the prime motivation for their vote. This is difficult to understand in view of the wide publicity given to rampant torture at Iraq's Abu Graib prison, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Americas, Cuba, Middle East, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2005-02-01T11:40:10+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Democracy By Invasion Not A Winning Formula]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/democracy-by-invasion-not-a-winning-formula</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/democracy-by-invasion-not-a-winning-formula#When:11:42:51Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The Bush administration's rosy scenario of a "slam-dunk" takeover of Iraq and welcoming throngs throwing rose petals did not materialize. Instead, the ever-increasing insurgency is now estimated by Iraqi Intelligence Director Mohamed Abdullah Shahwani at 200,000 members, including 40,000 full-time fighters.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Middle East, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2005-01-13T11:42:51+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Follow the Pipeline]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/follow-the-pipeline</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/follow-the-pipeline#When:14:18:46Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The recent presidential campaign revolved around many issues, but the elephant in the room -- the prospect of wars without end to maintain U.S. control of the world's oil supply -- was ignored.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Middle East, Afghanistan, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2004-12-28T14:18:46+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Bush&#8217;s Renunciations of Treaty]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/bushs-renunciations-of-treaty</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/bushs-renunciations-of-treaty#When:15:10:55Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The Comprehensive Test Ban, Nuclear Nonproliferation and Anti-Ballistic Missile treaties were negotiated with American leadership and support as a means to alleviate the fear and dread that the specter of nuclear war engenders in all hearts.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia, North Korea, Middle East, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2004-10-09T15:10:55+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Terror Countered Only By Just Policies]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/terror-countered-only-by-just-policies</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/terror-countered-only-by-just-policies#When:16:07:03Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA["War on terror" is a contradiction in terms. Terrorism is not war; it is a tactic, a tool.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Middle East, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2004-09-18T16:07:03+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[American Intentions All Too Clear to Iraqis]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/american-intentions-all-too-clear-to-iraqis</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/american-intentions-all-too-clear-to-iraqis#When:16:11:47Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[As the declared motives for President Bush's rush to war on Iraq dissolve, one by one, in the glaring light of truth, it becomes clear that his claim that we went to Iraq to bring freedom and liberation to a people suffering from a brutal dictatorship is similarly devoid of reality]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Middle East, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2004-09-02T16:11:47+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Militarization of U.S. Foreign Policy]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/militarization-us-foreign-policy</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/militarization-us-foreign-policy#When:14:48:53Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[The fall of the Soviet Union handed the U.S. a unique opportunity, as the surviving superpower, to lead the world toward a period of greater cooperation ]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, National Security Project, Middle East, Afghanistan, Transparency & Accountability, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2004-02-19T14:48:53+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[More Arms Are Not What India and Pakistan Need]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/more-arms-are-not-what-india-and-pakistan-need</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/more-arms-are-not-what-india-and-pakistan-need#When:14:19:29Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Washington wants to encourage the search for a South Asian peace that was launched by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee of India and President]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, Middle East, Pakistan, Advocacy, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2004-02-14T14:19:29+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Pakistan&#8217;s Nuclear Loopholes]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pakistans-nuclear-loopholes</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/pakistans-nuclear-loopholes#When:14:24:40Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Despite multiplying evidence that Iran, North Korea, and Libya have obtained their key nuclear technology from Pakistan, the United States continues to]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Asia Project, Asia, Middle East, Pakistan, Advocacy, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2004-02-09T14:24:40+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Search for Truth as Elusive as Those WMD]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/search-for-truth-as-elusive-as-those-wmd</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/search-for-truth-as-elusive-as-those-wmd#When:14:42:42Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[President Bush has latched on to two hot-button issues, illegal immigration and a manned mission to Mars, in an obvious attempt to]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Middle East, Transparency & Accountability, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2004-01-29T14:42:42+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Power Without Statesmanship]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/power-without-statesmanship</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/power-without-statesmanship#When:13:29:53Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Immediately after the 9-11 terrorist attacks there was an outpouring of support for and solidarity with the United States. The world faced a new threat, and, it was believed, the United States would now, as it had during the Cold War, lead the way in confronting it, consulting with its allies and working carefully within the United Nations system as it did so.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Latin America Rights & Security, Cuba Project, Americas, Cuba, Middle East, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2003-11-23T13:29:53+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[A Cry For &#8216;Justice&#8217;]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/a-cry-for-justice</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/a-cry-for-justice#When:13:35:16Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's recent New York statements --that "Islam as a religion is being targeted and pilloried," that the Islamic world has an obligation to reform the religious schools "that preach hatred" and that it must "shun militancy and extremism" but for that to be feasible "the West must join us by helping to resolve all political disputes involving Muslims with justice" -- deserve to be pondered and acted upon.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Middle East, Pakistan, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2003-10-10T13:35:16+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Arrogance, Deceptions Still On Display]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/arrogance-deceptions-still-on-display</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/arrogance-deceptions-still-on-display#When:13:39:58Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[Just as President Bush's ever-changing reasons for our pre-emptive attack on Iraq without the United Nations' imprimatur have dissolved in a cloud of denial, now he has ignored his past actions and gone to the U.N. defiantly demanding funds and troops to extricate himself from the unplanned-for Iraqi reconstruction and restoration of order.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, Middle East, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2003-09-26T13:39:58+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Right! It Was All Wrong]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/right-it-was-all-wrong</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/right-it-was-all-wrong#When:13:42:18Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[During his recent visit to Iraq and other countries in the Middle East, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld chided those who had criticized the conduct of the war by giving Winston Churchill's famous words a new twist. "Rarely," said Rumsfeld, "had so many been so wrong about so much."]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Middle East, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2003-05-24T13:42:18+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Weapons Failure]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/weapons-failure</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/weapons-failure#When:13:46:36Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - It now appears that the so-called "clear and present danger" of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD) did not exist and that French and German critics were correctly skeptical of the U.S. argument for the use of force.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, National Security Project, Middle East, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2003-05-22T13:46:36+00:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Iraq in check]]></title>
      <link>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/iraq-in-check</link>
      <guid>http://www.ciponline.org/research/entry/iraq-in-check#When:14:10:41Z</guid>
      <description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Colin L. Powell's statement to the U.N. Security Council was a compelling case for intensifying international inspection, but not war.]]></description>
      <dc:subject><![CDATA[Common Defense Campaign, National Security Project, Middle East, Policy Research, Article,]]></dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2003-02-09T14:10:41+00:00</dc:date>
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