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<title><![CDATA[Max Boot - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/14937.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Max Boot]]></description><category domain="14937">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Ukraine Just Rewrote the Rules of War]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/wDFz9</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Max Boot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Sunday morning, Dec. 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy rewrote the rules of warfare.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will the GOP Abandon the Fight Against Putin's Evil?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/16/navalny-putin-republicans-ukraine-aid/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Max Boot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Putin feels as though he is winning '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and thus as though he can get away with murder. Giving that rapacious dictator a sense of impunity is extremely dangerous.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Iraq Taught Me About the Limits of American Power]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foreignaffairs.com/iraq/what-neocons-got-wrong</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Max Boot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How the Iraq War taught me about the limits of American power.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In His Showdown With Iran, Trump Blinks]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/opinions-in-his-showdown-with-iran-trump-blinks/ar-AAHuzz4</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Max Boot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump must have something in his eye, because he keeps blinking. He blinked in June when Iran'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' allegedly attacked oil tankers'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in international waters and shot down a U.S. drone. Trump ordered airstrikes in retaliation and then'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' called them off. He claimed'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' he was worried'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[14 Reasons I'll Vote for Any Democrat Over Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/opinions-here-are-14-reasons-ill-vote-for-any-democrat-over-trump/ar-AAGC4r9</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Max Boot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When asked earlier this month whether he could support Sens. Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren if one became the Democratic presidential nominee, former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg was noncommittal. I have the utmost respect for Bloomberg, whose fiscally conservative and socially...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Conservatives Rationalize Their Surrender to Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-conservatives-rationalize-their-surrender-to-trump/2019/05/01/b13c102b-1df7-4cef-971a-ccafe87df193_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Max Boot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[James Comey is right: The president eats their souls.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[18 Reasons Trump Could Be a Russian Asset]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thehour.com/opinion/article/Here-are-18-reasons-Trump-could-be-a-Russian-asset-13530473.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Max Boot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Friday, the New York Times reported that "in the days after President Donald Trump fired James Comey as F.B.I. director, law enforcement officials became so concerned by the president's behavior that they began investigating whether he had been working on behalf of Russia against...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Need a New Weekly Standard Untainted by Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2018/12/16/max-boot-conservatism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Max Boot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The standard, so to speak, interpretation of the demise of the Weekly Standard is that it is symbolic of the fate of non-Trumpian conservatism. There is something to this analysis, but it is too neat by half.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Just Watched Trump Acting on Behalf of a Hostile Power]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/07/16/we-just-watched-a-u-s-president-acting-on-behalf-of-a-hostile-power/?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.9fb04c7acf08</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Max Boot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump habitually calls the press '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the enemy of the people'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' a loathsome calumny, redolent of dictatorships, that he repeated on Sunday. If anyone is '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the enemy of the people,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' it is Trump himself.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[I Left the GOP. Now I Want Democrats to Take Over]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-left-the-republican-party-now-i-want-democrats-to-take-over/2018/07/03/54a4007a-7e38-11e8-b0ef-fffcabeff946_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.54b7e33901f1</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Max Boot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You used to belong to a conservative party with a white-nationalist fringe. Now it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a white-nationalist party with a conservative fringe.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[If This Is What Conservatism Has Become, Count Me Out]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/if-this-is-what-conservatism-has-become-count-me-out/2018/02/25/853685c6-19bd-11e8-92c9-376b4fe57ff7_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Max Boot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'m used to being vilified by the far left as a'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' bloodthirsty'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' neocon'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' warmonger'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' for the Original Sin of having supported the invasion of Iraq along with'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 72 percent'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' of the American public. It has been a little more surprising to be simultaneously vilified by the far right...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Unteachable. His Boy Scouts Speech Proved It.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/07/25/donald-trump-wallows-muck-boy-scout-speech-just-max-boot-column/508014001/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Max Boot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The American presidency is a peculiar institution. Its occupant is supposed to be simultaneously head of government and head of state, performing the functions that in most other countries are separated between a prime minister and a monarch or ceremonial president. As head of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Useful Idiocy: 'Realists' Will Take What They Can Get]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/tucker-carlson-russia-putin-neoconservatism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Max Boot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We all make mistakes. My most recent one was agreeing to go on Tucker Carlson'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Fox News show on July 12 to discuss'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'I thought'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'President Trump and U.S. policy toward Russia. Instead, I got the equivalent of a barrel of raw sewage dumped on my head.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tea Party &amp; Trump Killed the GOP--Clinton Is Far Preferable]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-boot-republicans-in-exile-20160508-story.html?platform=hootsuite</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Max Boot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I have been a Republican as long as I can remember. Joining the Grand Old Party seemed like a natural choice for someone like me who fled the Soviet Union as a boy and came to Los Angeles with his mother and grandmother in 1976. Refugees from communism, whether from Russia or Cuba,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A President That Learned Nothing]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentarymagazine.com/foreign-policy/a-president-that-learned-nothing-ben-rhodes-obama/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Max Boot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ben Rhodes, a 38-year-old former creative writing major, has emerged as one of President Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s closest foreign policy aides in spite of his almost complete lack of any qualifications in international relations, defense, area studies, or any related field. As deputy national...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Donald Trump Is a Security Threat]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentarymagazine.com/foreign-policy/why-trump-is-a-national-security-threat/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Max Boot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Some have dismissed my assertion that Donald Trump represents the No. 1 security threat to the United States today as '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'hyperbole.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s simply reality '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' because Trump is the most radical and most ignorant major-party presidential candidate in our...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump &amp; The GOP's Apologists for Tyrants]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentarymagazine.com/foreign-policy/donald-trump-gops-apologists-for-tyrants/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Max Boot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There were a lot of clashes in the Houston Republican debate on Thursday night, with Marco Rubio grabbing headlines for the skillful way in which he exposed Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s hypocrisy on illegal immigration and his lack of policy specifics. But just as telling in a way was the one...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is a New Republican Foreign Policy Emerging?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/new-republican-foreign-policy-emerging/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Max Boot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ever since the end of the Cold War, pundits and self-styled sages have predicted that isolationism would emerge as a potent force in the Republican Party. Those expectations were heightened after the early disasters of the Iraq War, which gave rise to a powerful anti-interventionist tide...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ted Cruz: The Anti-Reagan]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/ted-cruz-anti-ronald-reagan/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Max Boot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Like many of his rivals for the Republican nomination, Ted Cruz has embraced the mantle of Ronald Reagan. He regularly cites the Gipper as an inspiration, and last week gave a foreign policy address at the Heritage Foundation that was laced with tributes to him: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'As Reagan knew...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cruz's Weak Grasp of Foreign Policy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentarymagazine.com/foreign-policy/cruzs-weak-grasp-of-foreign-policy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Max Boot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For anyone who imagines that Bashar Assad is a possible ally against ISIS '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' a group that now includes, inter alia, Ted Cruz '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' this Wall Street Journal article should be required reading. It points out that the Assad regime has been engaged in an active trade with the Islamic...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Problem Is It Doesn't Do Enough Nation-Building]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-boot-chalabi-iraq-nation-building-20151105-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Max Boot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The death of Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi has brought forth many critical obituaries, and a few glowing eulogies that focused on his pro-democracy rhetoric while ignoring his actual record as an ally of Muqtada Sadr and an enabler of Shiite Muslim death squads. Chalabi was truly the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Putin, the Baltics, and NATO]]></title>
							<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/03/24/putin-the-baltics-and-nato/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Max Boot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin seems to be bent on resurrecting the Russian Empire using as his excuse the supposed mistreatment of Russian minorities in former Soviet republics. At least that was his rationale for the annexation of Crimea. It is not only Ukraine, which has already lost one province and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Budget Deal &amp; Defense: A Positive Step]]></title>
							<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/12/11/the-budget-deal-and-defense/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Max Boot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The budget deal struck between Rep. Paul Ryan and Sen. Patty Murray, assuming it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s passed by both chambers, hardly solves all of our budget woes. But it is a positive step forward especially for the U.S. Armed Forces, which have faced the prospect of devastating and illogical budget...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Vote Is a Vote for Retreat &amp; Isolationism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.hughhewitt.com/cfrs-max-boot-happens-say-syrian-action/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Max Boot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[HH: This hour, we start with the Jeane Kirkpatrick fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, Max Boot, written extensively on terrorism, on the Middle East, new book out. Max, welcome back, good to talk to you.MB: Thanks very much, Hugh.HH: How would you advise Congress to vote next...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Defense of Football]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324085304579011072125138740.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Max Boot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The tang of fall is in the air, and every American knows what it portends: the sights and sounds of cleats digging into grass turf, of grunting linemen colliding shoulder pad to shoulder pad, of an oblong leather ball spinning through the air, high above the mortals below. Football...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Stay Calm and Let the NSA Carry On]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-boot-nsa-surveillance-20130609,0,7434355.story</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Max Boot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After 9/11, there was a widespread expectation of many more terrorist attacks on the United States. So far that hasn't happened. We haven't escaped entirely unscathed (see Boston Marathon, bombing of), but on the whole we have been a lot safer than most security experts, including me,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Future of Nation Building]]></title>
							<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/03/19/the-future-of-nation-building/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Max Boot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There are two essential lessons one can draw from the Iraq War: either that we should never get mired in counterinsurgency or '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'nation-building'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' operations in the future or that, if we do get involved, we should do a better job of achieving our objectives. The prevailing wisdom...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Need to Repent for Supporting Iraq War]]></title>
							<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/03/18/no-need-to-repent-for-support-of-iraq-war/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Max Boot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The tenth anniversary of the start of the Iraq War has occasioned a lot of interesting and anguished appraisals. For those of us who supported the decision to invade, all such occasions present a chance for reflection on what went wrong'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and right'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and whether our backing for the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sequester Cuts, Anti-Drone Noises Hurting GOP]]></title>
							<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/03/08/on-drones-its-paul-vs-the-polls/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Max Boot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last year, for the first time in decades, Republicans lost the advantage on foreign policy in a presidential campaign. Exit polls showed that voters trusted Barack Obama more than Mitt Romney to handle an international crisis (57 percent trusted Obama, 50 percent trusted Romney). And of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Higher Taxes Are Better Than Sequester Cuts]]></title>
							<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/02/19/sequestration-and-national-security/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Max Boot</author>
							<description><![CDATA[General Ray Odierno, the army chief of staff, has provided further details of what sequestration could mean for the army'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'and why it would be so devastating. Already the army is due to decline in size, because of existing budget cuts, from 570,000 active duty personnel today to...]]></description>
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