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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Weird Climate Slap at a U.S. Ally]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Greg Sheridan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama over the weekend made a bizarre decision to attack and damage his closest ally in Asia, and one of the most committed supporters of U.S. foreign policy. The president was in Australia for the G-20 Summit in Brisbane. Unlike Britain&rsquo;s David Cameron , China&rsquo;s Xi...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Compromise Loses Ground in Arab Spring]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2012/01/12/territorial_compromise_loses_ground_in_arab_spring.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Greg Sheridan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is not the slightest chance of a settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian dispute any time soon. Western politicians who address the issue ever more urgently are not only mistaken analytically, but may well be making things worse.The whole world, including the Israelis and the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Freedom Could Make Sinai the New Somalia]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2011/08/26/freedom_could_make_sinai_the_new_somalia_99645.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Greg Sheridan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You'd have to be a very grumpy bear indeed not to be thrilled at the fall of Arab dictators, especially unmitigated creeps like Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, and the rise of a genuine democratic spirit across the Arab world.But consider this. One immediate result of the Arab Spring is a brand...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Obama Giving Up on Stopping Iran?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2010/04/03/obama_accepts_a_nuclear_iran_98899.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Greg Sheridan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[US President Barack Obama has decided to abandon any serious effort to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. He is determined instead to live with a nuclear Iran, by containment and, if possible, negotiation.This is the shifting tectonic plate in the Middle East.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Makes Brave Decision for the World]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/12/05/obama_makes_brave_decision_for_the_world_99433.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Greg Sheridan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The bottom line remains this. Barack Obama is sending 30,000 more US troops to Afghanistan.
That is the most important element of his speech at West Point this week. The politics, of course, are fascinating.
Obama shares one political characteristic with Kevin Rudd: a pervasive...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Waiting for Obama to Get Down to War]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/10/31/waiting_for_obama_to_get_down_to_war_98959.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Greg Sheridan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This past week has seen appalling terrorist violence in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The bombings in Pakistan were designed in part to coincide with the visit of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. As always, these bombings were designed to kill, but they were also designed for the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Uncontrolled Muslim Influx a Threat to the West]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/10/29/uncontrolled_muslim_influx_a_threat_to_the_west_98927.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Greg Sheridan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago in London, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband told me that 75 per cent of the terrorist plots aimed at Britain originated in the federally administered tribal areas of Pakistan. Some 800,000 Pakistanis live in Britain.
The vast majority, it goes without saying, are...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lots of People Love Obama, But Does Anyone in the World Really Fear Him?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/09/24/waiting_for_a_fonzie_moment_in_obamas_richie_cunningham_presidency.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Greg Sheridan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It may seem rather unkind to express some serious doubts about US President Barack Obama just now. He is wowing the UN with talk of nuclear disarmament. He is mesmerising the Group of 20 with talk of global recovery. He is leading a policy review that talks of winning in Afghanistan and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When There's a Will]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/06/27/when_theres_a_will_97200.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[BARACK Obama has become ahero to the Palestinians. Meanwhile, a poll published in The Jerusalem Post shows a minuscule 6 per cent of Israelis believe Obama's administration and policies are pro-Israel.
This week I spent a morning in the Palestinian West Bank capital of Ramallah. Unlike...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Result a Disaster for Social Democrats]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/06/10/_result_a_disaster_for_social_democrats_96922.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Greg Sheridan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[THIS startling European election result is a big victory for Europe's conservatives, a devastating result for the continent's social democrats, and a challenging result for the institutions of Europe itself.
European voters don't seem to have read Kevin Rudd's essay on the collapse of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kim Shows Up Obama's Soft Approach]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/05/26/kim_shows_up_obamas_soft_approach_96661.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Greg Sheridan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The new nuclear test carried out by North Korea demonstrates the complete failure, so far, of US President Barack Obama's softly-softly diplomacy and willingness to start afresh with old enemies.
It may be that Obama's approach is well worth a try, but so far its yield is zero.
This is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kim's Nuclear Reaction]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/04/25/kims_nuclear_reaction_96179.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Greg Sheridan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A CIGAR, as even Sigmund Freud acknowledged, is sometimes just a cigar. But a missile launch by an ageing dictator is always a symbol of virility. However, North Korea's April 5 missile launch may be much more than a symbol of Kim Jong-il's continuing power in North Korea. I believe...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Peril Brewing in Pyongyang]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/03/the_peril_brewing_in_pyongyang.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Greg Sheridan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[IF there's one thing the global financial crisis ought to teach us it is the extreme analytical difficulty of forecasting any big disruption in a well established pattern of relationships. This reflection is provoked by the visit of South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, a most welcome...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Matured Netanyahu is Ready to Rule]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/02/matured_netanyahu_is_ready_to.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Greg Sheridan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Will it be Likud's Benjamin Netanyahu or Kadima's Tzipi Livni? Barack Obama, and the international consensus of liberal opinion, would certainly prefer Livni, as she is committed to the "peace process", while Netanyahu has never favoured a Palestinian state.But there is almost certainly...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There May Be the Will but Not Necessarily the Way]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/02/there_may_be_the_will_but_not.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Greg Sheridan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama will not bring peace to the Middle East. He will not end the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. Though he may part the waves, cool the planet, stop the oceans from rising, this dispute will prove beyond him.I guess that in eight years -- like everyone I assume Obama will be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Went Right for Bush]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/01/what_went_right_for_bush.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Greg Sheridan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[THE final word on George W. Bush's foreign policy belongs, perhaps, to his successor, Barack Obama, who will be inaugurated as president of the US next week. In his most wide-ranging television interview on foreign policy, Obama was asked last week whether he stood by a remark he made in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stopping the Rockets a Necessity]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/01/stopping_the_rockets_a_necessi.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Greg Sheridan</author>
							<description><![CDATA[ISRAEL has taken the fateful step of a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip because ultimately the threat it faces from Hamas is strategic, even existential.Hamas has fired more than 6000 mostly Qassam rockets into Israel over the past four years.They have killed only about two dozen...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dangerous Illusion of Independent Terrorists]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24757395-7583,00.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pakistan: Asia's Islamist Engine]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Greg Sheridan</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Terrorists Join Forces]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24722489-7583,00.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Greg Sheridan</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Defense of George W. Bush]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24642500-7583,00.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Greg Sheridan</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Now We Know: The Left's View of US Is Wrong]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24608173-7583,00.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[American Politics as American Idol]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24582660-7583,00.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Iran, a Threat Bigger Than Wall Street]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24408271-7583,00.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Close Election Between Character, Celebrity]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24326429-7583,00.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Greg Sheridan</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Plays His Cards Brilliantly]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24263674-7583,00.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clutches of a Dictatorship]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24139287-7583,00.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[World Won't Give Up Growth for Climate]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24031468-7583,00.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Greg Sheridan</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nuclear Armed Iran Changes World]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23959567-7583,00.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Greg Sheridan</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama is First Post-Cold War Candidate]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23922960-7583,00.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Greg Sheridan</author>
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