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<title><![CDATA[Michael Crowley - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14476.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Michael Crowley]]></description><category domain="14476">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Harris&rsquo; Views on Israel in Spotlight as She Skips Bibi Visit]]></title>
							<link>https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2024/jul/23/harris-views-on-israel-are-in-the-spotlight-as-net/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Crowley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In her first week as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris will confront the most politically divisive issue in U.S. foreign policy as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel pays an official visit to Washington.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Cult of the Climate Apocalypse]]></title>
							<link>https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/26/the-cult-of-the-climate-apocalypse/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Crowley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Green campaigners are not 'following the science' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' they are promoting a Biblical fantasy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Conflict in Israel Challenges Biden&rsquo;s 'Stand Back' Approach]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/violence-in-israel-challenges-bidens-stand-back-approach/ar-BB1gCNGf?li=BBnb7Kz</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Crowley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Biden took office in January with little interest in pursuing an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, for understandable reasons.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Curtails Ties to Hong Kong, Severs Them With WHO]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-moves-to-strip-hong-kong-of-special-us-relationship/ar-BB14Mjqr</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Crowley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' President Trump said Friday that his administration would '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'begin the process'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' of ending the American government'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' special relationship with Hong Kong, including on trade and law enforcement, and that he was'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' withdrawing from the World Health...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A President as His Own National Security Adviser]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/analysis-trump-unplugged-a-president-as-his-own-national-security-adviser/ar-AAH7iwl?li=AAgfIYZ</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Crowley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' On one foreign policy issue after another, John R. Bolton was the in-house skeptic who checked President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s most unorthodox instincts. Whether it was talking to North Korea, cooperating with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia or'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' inviting the Taliban to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Clashes With Friends While Flirting With Foes]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/08/trump-g7-clashes-allies-russia-north-korea-634994</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Crowley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After tense exchanges with allies before the G-7, the president looks forward to meeting the leaders of North Korea and Russia.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's North Korea Nobel Buzz Could Die With Bolton]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/16/trump-north-korea-bolton-595064</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Crowley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is Trump's biggest obstacle to a deal with North Korea his own national security adviser?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Shock and Awe Foreign Policy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/09/trump-north-korea-kim-jong-un-foreign-policy-448711</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Crowley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A planned meeting with Kim Jong Un highlights President Donald Trump's taste for breaking national security taboos.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Foreign Policy Plan Stresses Home Front]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/18/trump-foreign-policy-security-302242</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Crowley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president's first National Security Strategy takes a tough line on Russia as critics wonder whether it reflects Trump's true thinking.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Did Trump Do 'Rocket Man' a Favor?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/09/20/trump-north-korea-rocket-man-215630</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Crowley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The insult-hurling theory of diplomacy doesn't always work out for the hurler'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??and can even pump up a dictator.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Deep State Is Real, But It Might Not Be What You Think]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/09/05/deep-state-real-cia-fbi-intelligence-215537</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Crowley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At a conference in mid-July, Barack Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s CIA'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' director, John Brennan, remarked that executive branch officials have an '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'obligation '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';' to refuse to carry out'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' outrageous or anti-democratic orders from President Donald Trump. The comment quickly caught the attention...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the White House Is Reading Greek History]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/21/why-the-white-house-is-reading-greek-history-215287</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Crowley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Trump White House isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t known as a hot spot for Ivy League intellectuals. But last month, a Harvard academic slipped into the White House complex for an unusual meeting. Graham Allison, an avuncular foreign policy thinker who served under Reagan and Clinton, was paying a visit...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Man Who Wants to Unmake the West]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/trump-steve-bannon-destroy-eu-european-union-214889</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Crowley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Europeans are starting to worry that Steve Bannon has the EU in his crosshairs. Here's how the White House could genuinely help pull it apart.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Worries Ben Rhodes About Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/obama-foreign-policy-legacy-ben-rhodes-donald-trump-china-iran-214642</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Crowley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Being the man who explains Barack Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s foreign policy wasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t easy. Even in the good times, like after Obama clinched his hard-fought July 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran, Ben Rhodes was castigated by the deal'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s critics for allegedly turning a grave matter of national...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cold War 2.0: Putin's Revenge]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/12/russia-putin-hack-dnc-clinton-election-2016-cold-war-214532</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Crowley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was September 1994, and Boris Yeltsin was in Washington for a state visit with his new friend, President Bill Clinton. The Soviet Union had collapsed just three years earlier, and a relationship was blossoming between the U.S. and Russia, one that held the promise of burying decades...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Did President Obama Get Erdogan Wrong?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/obama-turkey-225659</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Crowley</author>
							<description><![CDATA['You have to deal with the Turkey you have, rather than the one you'd like to have,' a former U.S. ambassador says.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton: To Receive Backing from Richard Armitage]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/richard-armitage-endorses-clinton-224431</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Crowley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage says he will vote for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump, in one of the most dramatic signs yet that Republican national security elites are rejecting their party's presumptive nominee.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Big Damage-Control World Tour]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/obama-saudi-arabia-britain-germany-222106</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Crowley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama will drop in on three of America's most important allies this week, possibly for the last time. But he isn't expecting an adoring reception in any of them.The U.S. relationship with all three nations is distressed, and Obama will be doing more than a little damage...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Neocons Declare War on Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/trump-clinton-neoconservatives-220151?lo=ap_a1</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Crowley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump calls the Iraq War a lie-fueled fiasco, admires Vladimir Putin and says he would be a "neutral" arbiter between Israel and the Palestinians. When it comes to America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s global role he asks, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Why are we always at the forefront of everything?"Even more than his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Christie: Is NJ Governor Overstating His Terrorism Credentials?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/chris-christie-terrorism-prosecutor-217241</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Crowley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A case he cites was the prosecution of an elderly man with no ties to terror groups who sold a fake weapon to the FBI.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Republican Party Is Deeply Split Over Foreign Policy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/republican-debate-foreign-policy-assad-216824</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Crowley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tuesday night's Republican debate revealed a deep rift in the Republican party over how to deal with Middle East dictators a decade after George W. Bush's neoconservative call for aggressively promoting American-style democracy in the region.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' As the GOP candidates offered similar plans...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama to Hollande: Stay the Course Against Russia]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/obama-hollande-216118</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Crowley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When President Obama hosts French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday, he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ll have more on his agenda than demonstrating solidarity against terrorism. He'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ll also be working to make sure Hollande sticks with the international effort to punish and isolate Vladimir Putin for his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Attacks Call Obama's ISIS Strategy Into Question]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/paris-attacks-obama-strategy-isil-215863</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Crowley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Coming just a day after President Barack Obama's comment that the Islamic State had been "contained," the terrorist attacks in Paris have cast doubt on the administration'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s strategy and efforts to show gains against the jihadist group, which claimed credit for the carnage.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Obama...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Putin Faces Blowback From Syria Intervention]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/putin-syria-blowback-214571</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Crowley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[U.S. intelligence officials warn that Russia's military intervention in Syria has stirred the wrath of Islamic radicals who may retaliate by staging terrorist attacks inside Russia.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Terrorism analysts say they are already seeing signs of fresh militant anger toward Moscow, which could...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[On Cuba &amp; Iran, Obama Defies Critics]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/cuba-us-relations-john-kerry-hails-120372.html?hp=lc2_4</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Crowley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After months of reacting to nonstop crises, Barack Obama has reclaimed his foreign policy narrative this summer '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' at least for now.In the past week, he has sealed the nuclear deal with Iran he has sought since taking office. And on Monday, he officially restored full diplomatic...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Does John Kerry Want an Iran Deal Too Much?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/john-kerry-iran-nuclear-deal-119562.html?hp=t1_r</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Crowley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As he meets with Iranian officials in search of a nuclear deal in the coming days, John Kerry may sense another presence in Vienna'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Palais Coburg hotel: his legacy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Another Obama 'Red Line' Becomes Flashpoint]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/irans-dire-strait-117566.html?hp=t1_r</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Crowley</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[White House's Middle East &quot;Free Fall&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/barack-obama-yemen-isil-middle-east-116440.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Crowley</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bush's Burden: His Brother's Wars]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/jeb-bush-george-w-bush-iraq-war-113942.html?hp=r1_4</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Crowley</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Obama Destroying the Russian Economy?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/barack-obama-vladimir-putin-russian-economy-113626.html?hp=t3_r</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Crowley</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Speaking at a Moscow event in early October, Russian President Vladimir Putin sounded cocky about the sanctions imposed on his country by Washington and its European allies. The penalties, Putin said, were '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'utter silliness'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' that would only hurt Western businesses.But now that...]]></description>
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