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<title><![CDATA[Austin Bay - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14842.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Austin Bay]]></description><category domain="14842">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Canny Diplomatic Feints on the International Stage]]></title>
							<link>https://strategypage.com/on_point/20191203214110.aspx</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Austin Bay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Three years ago, Donald Trump began a rhetorical offensive targeting the governments of NATO nations that chronically failed to meet their allied defense financial commitments. With bombastic huff, Trump intimated that allies pay their share or America might walk.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[China's Communist Dictatorship Targets U.S. Creativity]]></title>
							<link>https://strategypage.com/on_point/20190508202722.aspx</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Austin Bay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Spies have always targeted more than military secrets. Gathering political intelligence and compromising personal information on enemy leaders is as old as our species. "Spying for profit" (economic gain) is old news, though globalization has increased the value of commercial and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Venezuela's Opposition Is Now a Serious Threat to Maduro]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/01/24/venezuelas_opposition_is_now_a_serious_threat_to_maduro_139265.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Austin Bay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Since late fall 2018, nationwide opposition to Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro has shown signs of increasing coordination -- emerging links connecting angry anti-Maduro street demonstrations, domestic political preparations by opposition leaders and anti-regime international...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Next Victim of Trump's 'Maximum Pressure' Strategy: Iran]]></title>
							<link>http://observer.com/2018/05/trump-pulled-out-of-iran-nuclear-deal-to-apply-even-more-pressure/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Austin Bay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump knows that in terms of power, America is earth's 800-pound gorilla.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Maximum Pressure' Strategy Got North Korea to the Table]]></title>
							<link>http://observer.com/2018/03/how-donald-trump-got-north-korea-open-to-giving-up-its-nuclear-weapons/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Austin Bay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s October 24, 1999'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Meet the Press'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' interview'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' with Tim Russert is a historically illuminating flash forward to the most surprising, promising and history-altering opportunity since the Soviet Union collapsed: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'denuclearizing'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' North Korea without the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's North Korea Threat-Theater Is Working]]></title>
							<link>http://observer.com/2017/10/donald-trump-threats-corner-north-korea/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Austin Bay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Obvious truth tends to die in Beltway media darkness, but'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The Washington Post'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' finally noticed'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' the intent and utility of the Trump administration'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s orchestrated information warfare operation, something Observer readers know I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' began covering in March'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' and'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' emphasized in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Firebrand Trump Strategizes 'All Options' N. Korea Approach]]></title>
							<link>http://observer.com/2017/08/north-korea-japan-donald-trump-options/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Austin Bay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On August 29 North Korea'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' test fired'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' an intermediate range ballistic missile that approached the Japanese home island of Hokkaido'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' on a worrisome flight path. Japanese officials alerted residents to prepare for falling debris. This was wise'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'not alarmist. Unarmed ballistic...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Full-Court Press Against North Korea Is Working]]></title>
							<link>http://observer.com/2017/08/donald-trump-north-korea-diplomatic-military-strategy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Austin Bay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In March of this year, the Trump foreign policy team of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, and the Tweeter-in-Chief himself began a coordinated attack on Kim Jong-un'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s regime, with the interim goals of disrupting its political and military plans,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Deal Didn't Halt Iran--It Ignited an Arms Race]]></title>
							<link>http://observer.com/2017/07/iran-nuclear-deal-obama-trump-arms-race/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Austin Bay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On July 25, the latest battle in the Ayatollah Khomeini'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Islamic Revolution'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s long war on America occurred in the northern end of the Persian Gulf. When a speedboat manned by Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) personnel approached American vessels operating in open...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[6 Options to Neutralize North Korea--But None Are Good]]></title>
							<link>http://observer.com/2017/07/donald-trump-north-korea-options/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Austin Bay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t hear mere saber rattling on the Korean peninsula. Sabers are local, short-range weapons. The dreadful noise in east Asia is something far more potent: the provocative July 4 blast of a North Korean missile capable of striking North America.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mexican Cartel War Ten Years On]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/12/15/mexican_cartel_war_ten_years_on_132570.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Austin Bay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mexico was battling well-financed criminal organizations long before December 2006. But that's the month, 10 years ago, when former President Felipe Calderon decided to use military forces to fight the well-armed and well-financed drug cartels that had begun to threaten Mexico's internal...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[FBI Needs to Investigate Violent Democratic Tantrums]]></title>
							<link>http://observer.com/2016/12/comeys-fbi-needs-to-investigate-violent-democratic-tantrums/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Austin Bay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s time for the FBI to conduct a detailed investigation into the violence and political thuggery that continue to mar the presidential election'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s aftermath. A thorough probe of the protests'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'to include possible ties to organizations demanding vote recounts'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'will give...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obamacare's Chickens Come Home to Roost]]></title>
							<link>http://observer.com/2016/11/obamacares-chickens-come-home-to-roost/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Austin Bay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Lies passed ObamaCare legislation, lies supported its implementation. As its death spiral begins, angry and panicked lies by Democratic apologists attempt to deflect accountability for its economic devastation. ObamaCare'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s economic wreckage will insure President Barack Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Clinton's Crime Has Compromised the FBI]]></title>
							<link>http://observer.com/2016/10/clintons-disgraceful-three-headed-crime-has-compromised-the-fbi/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Austin Bay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The first Clinton-Trump debate was Benghazi-less and all but criminality-less'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'but criminality wasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t totally absent. In a brief exchange early in the debate, Donald Trump mentioned Hillary Clinton'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s 33,000 missing emails.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'That was more than a mistake. That was done...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Let Comey Put a Criminal in the White House]]></title>
							<link>http://observer.com/2016/09/dont-let-comey-put-a-criminal-in-the-white-house/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Austin Bay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[FBI Director James Comey doth protest too much.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' I refer to his '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'memo to staff'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' issued Wednesday September 7, four days before the eleventh anniversary of 9/11 and the fourth anniversary of the Benghazi massacre. In the memo, Director Comey assures America that he and his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Trip: More Presidential Than Hillary's Ever Been]]></title>
							<link>http://observer.com/2016/09/trumps-mexican-trade-show-more-presidential-than-hillarys-ever-been/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Austin Bay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Pena invited Clinton, but of course she didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'??t come.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton's Crimes Versus Trump's Mouth]]></title>
							<link>http://observer.com/2016/08/ultimate-media-privilege-hillarys-crimes-versus-trumps-mouth/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Austin Bay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A mainstream media tsunami of contempt is inundating Donald Trump, its two-story wave combining innuendoes of treason with deserved scorn for Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s stupid attempt to debate grieving father and Democratic National Convention speaker Khizr Khan.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The 'Ferguson Effect' Is Real]]></title>
							<link>http://observer.com/2016/07/no-decent-person-ever-said-black-lives-dont-matter/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Austin Bay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Dallas police massacre has shocked major media outlets that managed to miss'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'or ignore'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'The War On Cops that began with the 2014 Ferguson, Missouri'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' death of Michael Brown and accelerated with Baltimore'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' riots following the death of Freddy Gray.In the wake of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Strategist Putin Strikes an Ominous Deal With Iran]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/01/21/strategist_putin_strikes_an_ominous_deal_with_iran_125337.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Austin Bay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Russian president Vladimir Putin made dangerous history in 2014. His invasion of Crimea and subsequent annexation of the peninsula shredded the diplomatic agreements stabilizing post-Cold War Eastern Europe.
Then Putin ignited a low-level war in Eastern Ukraine. Despite a September 2014...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Four Pinocchios: A Cute Way of Saying Obama Lied]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/16/benghazi_revisited_pinocchios_for_the_dead_118423.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Austin Bay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a column published on Sept. 18, 2012, I argued that verified tactical military details of the engagement, the iconic date itself, and subsequent, very explicit statements by Libyan government authorities, left no doubt that on 9-11-2012 the U.S. consulate in Benghazi suffered a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Seven Years War and Britain's Passage to India]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/02/27/the_seven_years_war_and_britains_passage_to_india__117183.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Austin Bay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[British Prime Minister David Cameron's mid-February visit to India began with a flattering appeal. "I want Britain and India to have a very special relationship," Cameron said in Mumbai. "Special relationship" has specific echoes, which Cameron no doubt intended. Britain possesses a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Time to Confront Tehran's International Terrorism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/02/20/time_to_confront_tehrans_international_terrorism__117077.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Austin Bay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[February 2013 has been a very bad month for Iranian-sponsored terrorism.
On Feb. 5, the government of Bulgaria struck the clerical regime a hard blow with the truth stick when it released its long-awaited official report on the July 18, 2012, terror attack in the Bulgarian Black Sea...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nuclear Endgame on the Korean Peninsula?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/02/13/nuclear_endgame_on_the_korean_peninsula__117009.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Austin Bay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last October, while riding on South Korea's KTX express train from Seoul to Cheonan, I glanced at one of the rail car's video monitors just as a chilling yet cyclically familiar news flash lit the screen: "North Korea threatens South Korea with nuclear war."
The KTX onboard video system...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stalingrad: 1943 and 2013]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/02/06/stalingrad_1943_and_2013__116936.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Austin Bay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Feb. 2 marked the 70th anniversary of the end of one of World War II's most decisive and utterly destructive battles, the five-months of slaughter in the Russian city then called Stalingrad.
In 2012, this column revisited several major battles of 1942, including Midway and El Alamein....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Egypt's Revolution Will Take Decades]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/01/30/egypts_revolution_will_take_decades__116848.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Austin Bay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Egypt's Arab Spring revolution abounds with destructive ambitions and cruel ironies. But to label Egypt's revolution a failure, just two short years into a process involving drastic political change, is an act of extraordinary haste.
Destructive ambitions, borne by ambitious men, and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Al-Qaida Franchises Continue Terror War on the World]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/01/23/al-qaida_franchises_continue_terror_war_on_the_world_116768.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Austin Bay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Four years ago, as his first term began, President Barack Obama ditched the name Global War on Terror (GWOT). Instead of fighting Al-Qaida-inspired terrorism around the world, the U.S. would conduct "overseas contingency operations" (OCO).
Obama's act of oratorical magic -- poof, the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mali: Combat Buys Times for Diplomacy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/01/16/mali_combat_buys_times_for_diplomacy__116696.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Austin Bay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As you read about the French military intervention in Mali, undertaken to defeat an offensive by al-Qaida's North African affiliate and loosely allied tribal rebels, remember two points.
One: Mali is an accidental battlefield, the offspring of a militant Islamist defeat in Algeria.
Two:...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Spinning With Mexico's New Gendarmes]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/01/09/spinning_with_mexicos_new_gendarmes__116627.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Austin Bay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[During last year's Mexican presidential campaign, then-candidate and now President Enrique Pena Nieto argued that Mexico needed a new, specially trained and heavily armed police force.
This organization, which Pena dubbed the National Gendarmerie, would have the military organization and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Egypt's Government Must Confront the Genuine Great Satan]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Austin Bay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In November 1979, two weeks after Iranian voters approved his Islamic revolutionary constitution, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini identified the U.S. as the source of Iranian misery. The angry old cleric also swore that American corruption not only polluted Muslim nations but tainted the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[&quot;I'll Gladly Pay You Tuesday for a Hamburger Today&quot;]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Austin Bay</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As 2012 ends, the Greek debt crisis continues. In December, the Greek government began restructuring its debt for the second time this year.
"Restructuring" may sound clean and clinical. It isn't. Greece couldn't meet its debt payment requirements, so its lenders agreed to a new...]]></description>
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