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<title><![CDATA[Michael Totten - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15290.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Michael Totten]]></description><category domain="15290">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Leaving Portland]]></title>
							<link>https://quillette.com/2021/03/14/leaving-portland/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Totten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Portland, Oregon, has been the most politically violent city in the United States since Donald Trump was elected in 2016. Just a few days after the result, a peaceful protest against the incoming president turned into a riot when anarchists broke off from the main group and rampaged...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No, Iran Is Not a Democracy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/michael-j-totten/no-iran-not-democracy</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Totten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Vox magazine just published a video on YouTube narrated by Max Fisher that supposedly explains how the next Iranian election could make history. He starts by saying that Iran is confusing because it has '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'an unelected Supreme Leader at the top'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' and a president who is chosen in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Yemen Falls Apart]]></title>
							<link>http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/michael-j-totten/yemen-falls-apart</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Totten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Suicide-bombers killed at least 137 people and wounded more than 350 in Yemen at two Shia mosques in the capital city of Sanaa on Friday. The very next day, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula seized control of the city of al-Houta, and the day after that, the Iranian-backed Houthi rebel...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Real Downside to Any Deal With Iran]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/2015/eon0310mt.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Totten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu caused a stir last week when he blasted President Barack Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s attempt to negotiate a nuclear deal with Iran. American television media covered little else for 24 hours. The prime minister and the president are still bickering about it...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Let the Kurds Go, and Let Iraq Die]]></title>
							<link>http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/let-iraq-die-case-partition</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Totten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Iraq is finished, an expiring, cancerous nation on life support. Pulling the plug might be merciful. It might be cruel. But either way, it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s time to accept the fact that this country is likely to die and that we'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ll all be better off when it does.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Egypt Unites Against ISIS]]></title>
							<link>http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/michael-j-totten/egypt-unites-against-isis</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Totten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Libyan branch of ISIS massacred 21 Egyptian Christians over the weekend. A knife-wielding executioner frog-marched the bound and blind-folded captives to a beach in front of a camera and said, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'safety for you crusaders is something you can only wish for,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' and cut off their...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Proxy War Against Russia]]></title>
							<link>http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/michael-j-totten/no-proxy-war-against-russia</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Totten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Senator Ted Cruz thinks the United States should arm Ukraine so it can beat Russian-backed separatists in the east. As much as we'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d love to help plucky Ukraine resist the giant bear to the north'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and we have a solid precedent under our belts'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a terrible idea.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Chris Kyle Wasn't a Savage; He Killed Savages]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/2015/bc0130mt.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Totten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Clint Eastwood'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s new film, American Sniper, is a blisteringly accurate portrayal of the American war in Iraq. Unlike most films in the genre, it sidesteps the politics and focuses on an individual: the late, small-town Texan, Chris Kyle, who joined the Navy SEALs after 9/11 and did...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Facing the Brutal Truth About ISIS]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/face-brutal-truth-isis-article-1.1938046</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Dystopian Havana Tourists Never See]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/2014/24_2_havana.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Totten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Neill Blomkamp'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s 2013 science-fiction film Elysium, starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster, takes place in Los Angeles, circa 2154. The wealthy have moved into an orbiting luxury satellite'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the Elysium of the title'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'while the wretched majority of humans remain in squalor on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pity the Vassals of Moscow]]></title>
							<link>http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/michael-j-totten/pity-vassals-moscow</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Totten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Russia is justifying its invasion of Ukraine'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Crimean Peninsula by saying the ethnic Russians who live there are threatened by a nascent fascist regime in Kiev. The habits of Soviet propagandists die hard. What'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s really going on here is simple. Vladimir Putin, like most...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can Beirut Be Paris Again?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/2013/23_3_beirut.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Totten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Before it became the poster child for urban disaster areas in the mid-1970s, Beirut was called the Paris of the Middle East. With its French Mandate architecture, its world-class cuisine, its fashionable and liberated women, its multitude of churches on the Christian side of town, and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Iran's New President: Lipstick on a Pig]]></title>
							<link>http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/michael-j-totten/irans-new-president-lipstick-pig</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Totten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bigoted buffoon Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has finally been fired as the president of Iran and replaced by the supposed moderate reformer Hassan Rowhani, who just won a landslide victory with more than fifty percent of the vote in a crowded field of eight candidates.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The sun of my...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Everyone Should See &quot;Zero Dark Thirty&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://city-journal.org/2013/bc0125mt.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Totten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Zero Dark Thirty, screenwriter Mark Boal and director Kathryn Bigelow'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s new film about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, is weathering a storm of criticism. Critics overwhelmingly give the film positive reviews, but activists claim that it approves of and even glorifies the use of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The International Elite Bubble]]></title>
							<link>http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/michael-j-totten/international-elite-bubble</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Totten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Robert D. Kaplan is always worth reading. He'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s interesting even when I don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t agree with him, and his recent piece in the Wall Street Journal called '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The Return of Toxic Nationalism'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' is right on the money. (It was published over the Christmas holiday, so most of us...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Egypt Is Looking More Like Post-1979 Iran]]></title>
							<link>http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/michael-j-totten/egypt-threatens-execute-american-citizens</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Totten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Cairo has issued international arrest warrants for eight Americans'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';'seven of them Coptic Christians from Egypt'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';'who are allegedly involved with the anti-Mohammad video everyone'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s rioting over. The prosecutor'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s office also issued a warrant for Terry Jones, the Koran-burning nutjob in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Between the Green Line and the Blue Line]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/2011/21_3_jerusalem.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Totten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As you walk the streets of Jerusalem'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Old City, you may find it hard to believe that Israelis and Palestinians are in their 63rd year of conflict. In the Muslim Quarter of the Old City, Arab shopkeepers hawk their merchandise not only to tourists but also to their Jewish Israeli...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Iranian Revolution Echoes in Egypt]]></title>
							<link>http://pajamasmedia.com/michaeltotten/2011/02/01/the-iranian-revolution-echoes-in-egypt/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Totten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Abbas Milani, like most educated Iranians, detested the Shah'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s  tyrannical regime that ruled over his homeland until it was overthrown  in 1979 by a coalition of liberals, leftists, and Islamists. Unlike the  vast majority of the liberals and leftists, however, Milani knew in ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Israelis Secure Airports]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/forget_the_porn_machines_NQAJ5DOzf187gdRQnLURlO</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Totten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Air travelers in the United States are now given two options at the security gate -- be groin-groped by gloved Transportation Security Administration agents, or photographed "naked" in the back-scatter X-ray device that Jeffrey Goldberg at The Atlantic calls "the porn machine."You can...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Wrong Time for Squishy Mideast Policies]]></title>
							<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/totten/276986</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Totten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As Noah pointed  out yesterday, Syria is now being credibly accused of shipping  Scud missiles with a range of more than 430 miles to Hezbollah,  placing Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and the Dimona nuclear power plant inside  the kill zone. Lebanon'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Prime Minister Saad Hariri has been...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trying to Woo Syria is a Waste of Time]]></title>
							<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/totten/246731</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Totten</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Future of Iraq - Part I]]></title>
							<link>http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/2009/05/the-future-of-i.php</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Totten</author>
							<description><![CDATA[During my last trip to Baghdad I tried to figure out if the worst in Iraq is over or if the dramatic reduction in violence is just a long lull. Half the Iraqis and half the Americans I spoke to were optimistic. The other half think Iraq is probably doomed. I have no idea who&#39;s right,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The (Really) Moderate Muslims of Kosovo]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_4_kosovo_muslims.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Totten</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Joe Biden's Alternate Universe]]></title>
							<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/totten/35261</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Totten</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fleeing Georgians Look to the West]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/2008/eon0820mt.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Totten</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is the Iraq War Over?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/is-the-war-over--11599</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Totten</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Real Iraq]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/2008/bc0516mt.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Totten</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hope for Iraq's Meanest City]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_2_fallujah.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Totten</author>
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