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<title><![CDATA[Jackson Diehl - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14500.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Jackson Diehl]]></description><category domain="14500">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Trump's 'America First' Agenda Crumbles]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/opinions-in-a-month-trump-has-destroyed-america-first/ar-AAIJ5bQ</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jackson Diehl</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The uproar in Washington over President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s corruption in Ukraine and malfeasance in Syria has obscured a broader story. In little more than a month, virtually every other foreign policy initiative the Trump administration has pursued has imploded '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' thanks mostly to the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dirty Money: The Real Reason Maduro Survives]]></title>
							<link>https://www.ohio.com/opinion/20190513/jackson-diehl-dirty-money-keeps-venezuelan-regime-in-power</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jackson Diehl</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When asked to explain why their efforts to oust Venezuelan President Nicol'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¡').';'s Maduro have fallen short, Trump administration officials typically cite the sinister influence of Cuba and Russia, which they say has stiffened the regime'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s resistance. What they don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t speak about...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Foreign Policy Has Devolved Into Chaos]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/trumps-foreign-policy-has-devolved-into-chaos/2018/09/16/f507f70c-b758-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jackson Diehl</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It sounds unlikely, but the record shows that the most effective foreign policy adviser to President Trump since his election has been Barack Obama.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Obama Roll the Dice on Middle East One More Time?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/theres-still-for-obama-to-carve-out-a-middle-east-legacy/2016/09/04/66cd0a72-705b-11e6-8533-6b0b0ded0253_story.html?utm_term=.1a2c90cac829</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jackson Diehl</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The NATO Alliance Trump Doesn't See]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-nato-alliance-trump-doesnt-see/2016/04/03/da19479e-f765-11e5-8b23-538270a1ca31_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jackson Diehl</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s recent rhetoric about an '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'obsolete'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' NATO alliance has surely disturbed Germans and French who think about their nations'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' security. But their anxiety level is probably low next to that of a dozen Eurasian nations that Trump has probably never considered...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Must Support Mideast Democracy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/investing-in-the-legacy-of-the-arab-spring/2015/04/26/c44b1638-e9c7-11e4-9767-6276fc9b0ada_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jackson Diehl</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If the Arab Spring had fulfilled its promise, Maikel Nabil Sanad would be part of a lively political culture in a rapidly modernizing Egypt. Instead, the 29-year-old activist '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' who was Egypt'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s first conscientious objector and is a pro-Israel atheist, to boot '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' is in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Rolls the Dice on Iran]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obamas-gamble-on-iran/2015/04/12/4799faec-ded6-11e4-a500-1c5bb1d8ff6a_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jackson Diehl</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The weakest point in President Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s defense of his deal with Iran is his claim that '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'it is a good deal even if Iran doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t change at all.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Obama's Next Earthquake]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obamas-next-earthquake/2015/03/29/93d7599c-d3d5-11e4-ab77-9646eea6a4c7_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jackson Diehl</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Fed Up with Obama's Foreign Policy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-obamas-fight-with-his-own-party-over-foreign-policy/2015/02/01/10ece938-a7e4-11e4-a2b2-776095f393b2_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jackson Diehl</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For more than two years, a breach has been opening between President Obama and the foreign policy establishment of the Democratic Party. Last week, as Russia pressed a new offensive in Ukraine and the Senate debated sanctions on Iran, it cracked open a little wider.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Benghazi Is a Phony Scandal]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-republicans-seek-blame-on-benghazi-rather-than-solutions/2013/05/12/54216414-b8bb-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jackson Diehl</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Remember the scandal of '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the 16 words'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'? If you do, you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve probably been inside the Beltway too long, literally or figuratively. If not, the quick version is this: A former ambassador named Joseph C. Wilson IV charged in 2003 that President George W. Bush had included in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Can't Ignore Syria's Crisis]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-what-the-iraq-war-taught-me-about-syria/2013/03/31/5ef2e6d0-97b2-11e2-814b-063623d80a60_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jackson Diehl</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The 10th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq has prompted plenty of analysis of the mistakes made there, along with a few tendentious claims that '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the same people'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' who supported war in Iraq are now pressing for U.S. intervention in Syria. I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m one of those people. So, to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The End of the Rose Revolution]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/a-landmark-election-in-georgia/2012/10/02/154a3c42-0ca5-11e2-bb5e-492c0d30bff6_blog.html?wprss=post-partisan</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jackson Diehl</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Obama to Blame for Arab Spring's Failures?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jackson-diehl-is-obama-to-blame-for-the-arab-springs-failures/2012/06/24/gJQAzF5O0V_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jackson Diehl</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A year ago Barack Obama described the epic wave of revolution that had begun in Tunisia and Egypt as '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'a historic opportunity'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' for the United States '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'to pursue the world as it should be.'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' He said America must promote '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'change that advances self-determination and opportunity.'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' And he...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How China Can Change]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearworld.com/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jackson Diehl</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The worrying news from China is that the country appears headed toward an economic and political crash sometime in the next five years, if current trends continue. The somewhat better news is that a large part of the elite grasps that danger, and is talking fairly openly about the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The End of Putinism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/putins-future-in-doubt-in-russia/2012/03/01/gIQAm0cWrR_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jackson Diehl</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No one in Russia was in doubt about the outcome of Sunday'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s presidential election. Vladi'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('­').';'mir Putin'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s triumph was assumed. But there is feverish speculation, and great uncertainty, about what will happen beginning Monday, when Putin prepares to begin a new six-year term. The question...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Foreign Policy Failures]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obamas-foreign-initiatives-have-faltered/2012/01/05/gIQAeCqAkP_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jackson Diehl</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The political writers tell us that President Obama'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s foreign affairs record will be one of his strengths with voters in the 2012 campaign. The logic is pretty simple; Obama himself summed it up in 11 words at the Pentagon last week: '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'We'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'ve ended our war in Iraq. We'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'ve decimated...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Do Sarkozy &amp; Obama Hate Netanyahu?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/why-do-sarkozy-and-obama-hate-netanyahu/2011/11/08/gIQAPqRQ1M_blog.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jackson Diehl</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Binyamin Netanyahu seems to have been the target of some ugly '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' if off the record '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' barbs from President Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Speaking privately (they thought) following a news conference in Cannes last week, Sarkozy said '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'I cannot bear'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Push for Mideast Peace, Whose Side Is Obama On?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/in-obamas-push-for-mideast-peace-whose-side-is-he-on/2011/03/24/AFdkaikB_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jackson Diehl</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So far what some are calling the Arab Spring has brought Israel the first terrorist bombing in Jerusalem in seven years and the first significant missile attacks from the Gaza Strip in two years. And that, for the government of Binyamin Netanyahu, is likely to be the easy part.The hard...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mideast Threats That Can't Be Ignored]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/13/AR2011011304899.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jackson Diehl</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama has been fortunate in the Middle East so far. Yes, his  attempt to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process has been a  high-profile failure. But Israel, the Palestinians and the region as a  whole have enjoyed a remarkable stretch of relative tranquility and  stability...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Dangerously Silent on Human Rights]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/02/AR2011010202381.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jackson Diehl</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a speech to the U.N. General Assembly last September Barack Obama suggested that his administration's notoriously weak defense of human rights around the world would be invigorated. "We will call out those who suppress ideas and serve as a voice for those who are voiceless," he said....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Foreign Policy is Stuck in the '80s]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/21/AR2010112102263.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jackson Diehl</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For help understanding the foreign policy headlines of the past week,  let's return, briefly, to the spring of 1983, when Barack Obama was a  student at Columbia University. What were the burning international  issues of that time?Well, first was the "nuclear freeze" movement, which was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Are Real Intentions in Mideast?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/12/AR2010091202884.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jackson Diehl</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The conventional wisdom about Mahmoud Abbas and Binyamin Netanyahu as they head into the second round of Mideast peace talks this week goes something like this: Abbas is a moderate who genuinely wants a two-state settlement but may be too weak politically to deliver. Netanyahu is a hawk...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Challenging Chavez's Grip on Venezuela]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/11/AR2010071103036.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jackson Diehl</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' During one of his interminable appearances on national television, Hugo Ch'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¡').';'vez demanded to know last month why Guillermo Zuloaga, the majority owner of Venezuela's last opposition television station, was not in jail. "How is it possible that he can accuse me of such things and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Incoherent Afghan Campaign]]></title>
							<link>http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/06/dont_blame_mcchrystal_blame_ob.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jackson Diehl</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal should not lose his job because of the article about him in Rolling Stone magazine. If anyone deserves blame for the latest airing of the administration's internal feuds over Afghanistan, it is President Obama. For months Obama has tolerated deep divisions...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Diplomacy, Not Fully Engaged]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/02/AR2010050202445.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jackson Diehl</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama's foreign policy has been defined so far by his attempts to "engage" with adversaries or rivals of the United States, such as Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of Iran and Dmitry Medvedev of Russia. The results have been mixed. But now the president's focus is visibly shifting. In the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Retreat From the Global Stage]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/07/AR2010020701897.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jackson Diehl</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is a wounded Barack Obama withdrawing from the world?

Europeans could be excused for speculating as much. The White House announced last week that the president would not attend a U.S.-European Union summit planned for Madrid in May, forcing its cancellation. The spurned host, Spanish...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Coming Failure on Iran]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jackson Diehl</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration's positive tone following its first diplomatic encounter with Iran covers a deep and growing gloom in Washington and European capitals. Seven hours of palaver in Geneva haven't altered an emerging conclusion: None of the steps the West is considering to stop the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rogue Leaders Don't Want to Meet with Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/06/AR2009090601186.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jackson Diehl</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Just over two years ago Barack Obama triggered the first and most enduring foreign policy debate of the presidential campaign when he was asked whether he would "be willing to meet separately, without precondition, during the first year of your administration, in Washington or anywhere...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mideast Contest Of Wills]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/17/AR2009051701742.html?hpid=opinionsbox1</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jackson Diehl</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Today Barack Obama will begin a diplomatic relationship that is likely to be as complex, as vexing and possibly as troubled as any he will have during the first years of his presidency. His meeting at the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu won't produce the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hidden Danger in Afghanistan]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/27/AR2009032702293.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jackson Diehl</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Three time bombs are buried within the new and ambitious strategy for Afghanistan that President Obama unveiled Friday. Their detonation -- which would cripple the international mission to stabilize the country and perhaps cripple Obama's presidency -- is not inevitable. But defusing...]]></description>
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