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							<title><![CDATA[New Afghan Strategy Hits the Mark]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonherald.com/opinion/op_ed/2017/08/brookes_new_afghan_strategy_hits_the_mark</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Brookes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After nearly 17 years of war in Afghanistan, President Trump this week proposed a pragmatic, purposeful approach to the conflict that will work to protect and advance U.S. interests in that part of the world.Here's why:First, it has a counterterrorism focus. The key aim is to help...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Sensible Pause in U.S. Entry Policies]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bostonherald.com/opinion/op_ed/2017/01/brookes_pause_in_us_entry_policies_sensible</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Brookes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[People will spin it anyway they like &mdash; and they will &mdash; but President Trump's decision to take a pause and review travel to the United States from seven Middle Eastern and North African countries is sound national security policy.It's also completely defensible in these...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Power &amp; Influence Slip as Obama Stumbles]]></title>
							<link>http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/opinion/op_ed/2013/06/snowden_flap_bares_hapless_us</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Brookes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You can&rsquo;t help but feel that the Russian Bear and Chinese Dragon are enjoying the chance to tweak ol&rsquo; Uncle Sam&rsquo;s nose over the Edward &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve got lots of super-secret laptops&rdquo; Snowden affair.Their unwillingness to extradite the slippery systems...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will the Benghazi Perps Pay?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/will_the_perps_pay_sXh3E8s2TfTAdlWJJsjOuJ</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Brookes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Lost in the hubbub over Who Knew What When (then changed it) about the Sept. 11 terror attack on our Benghazi consulate is one huge question: When do the terrorists pay for what they did?We lost four brave Americans at the hands of a pro-al Qaeda group, Ansar al Sharia, and other...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Still More Questions Than Answers on Benghazi]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/bam_benghazi_blues_5VhenIYyP7toatTM976oUP</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Brookes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We don&#194;&#146;t have all the details of former CIA Director David Petraeus&#194;&#146; testimony to congressional Intelligence Committees yesterday, but it looks like the American people were grossly misled about the Benghazi attack.Is anyone surprised? You shouldn&#194;&#146;t be.The last thing the Obama...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Way to Go, Wings of Gold]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/way_to_go_wings_of_gold_Znjho0EruxSKtkWNSzTP9L</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Brookes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You can't call yourself really alive if the flying scenes  in "Top Gun" don't put you on the edge of your seat, pulse racing, goose  bumps forming, the hair standing on the back of your neck.In  fact, it's kinda fitting that the 25th anniversary of the blockbuster  film, which brought...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Intelligence Director's Troubling Take]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/clapper_crass_bro_hood_bungle_GdKdA6deFvLNLbcZMF4IFN</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Brookes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There's lots of speculation going on over the fast-breaking events in  Egypt -- but Director of National Intelligence James Clapper's claim  yesterday on Capitol Hill that the Muslim Brotherhood is "largely secular" and has "eschewed violence" doesn't need to be speculated upon.The...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[More Korean Chaos]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/more_korean_chaos_KvvVlbUn5bIxDybkjO268L</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Brookes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sunday,  a new nuclear-weapons program; yesterday, an unprovoked and deadly  attack on a neighbor: When nutty North Korea makes the headlines, you  can bet it's not good news.Over the weekend, word  broke that the regime, in addition to the plutonium-based program that's  produced...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Not a New START, But a Bad START]]></title>
							<link>http://thehill.com/opinion/op-ed/118523-not-a-new-start-but-a-bad-start</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Brookes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the Senate returns to take up business before the fall elections, the Obama administration will argue that one of the critical issues in the senators' inboxes will be ratifying the U.S.-Russia Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START).Actually, there's no need for the Senate to rush...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The China Challenge]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_china_challenge_HNC58WQsJqm4JNjoD8XRuN</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Brookes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Pentagon's just-released report to Congress on  Chinese military power is alarming for two reasons: First, Beijing's  military buildup continues; second, the modernization of our armed  forces may come up short of what's needed to meet the China challenge.While the outcome of these...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Troubling START Treaty Gives Russia Too Much]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/05/15/a_late_look_at_a_troubling_treaty_105593.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Brookes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It turns out the Russians got a great deal on the new Strategic Arms Reduc tion Treaty, which President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed in Prague last month.
At our expense, of course.
The bad news is late in leaking out because seemingly no one outside the government...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Chavez Challenge]]></title>
							<link>http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/2010/03/4419149</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Brookes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the media, President Hugo Chavez seems to be portrayed more commonly these days as a threat to golf, which he considers &#8220;bourgeois&#8221; and is trying to eradicate in Venezuela, than to regional stability.   If only that were the case.  Overshadowed by America&#8217;s strategic...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Investigating the CIA is a Huge Mistake]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/08/27/investigating_the_cia_is_a_huge_mistake_98061.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Brookes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration's decision to release a previously classified 2004 CIA interrogation report and appoint a special prosecutor to look into possible misdeeds by personnel involved in questioning high-value terrorists is a huge mistake.
It's almost as if - in addition to the war in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Danger of Bad Foreign Policies]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/07/24/the_danger_of_bad_foreign_policies.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Brookes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Most Americans have noticed that President Obama's economic policies aren't getting the job done. Fewer, however, realize that the administration's foreign policies are flagging after just six months in the White House, too.
Yup, that's right: All that Obama hopey-changey, blame-...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Korean Cargo-Ship Conundrum]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/06/24/korean_cargo-ship_conundrum_97140.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Brookes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hardly a week seems to go by without North Korean leader Kim Jong Il deciding to once again chest-thump President Obama in an increasingly dangerous game of school-yard bullying. US planes and spy satellites are now monitoring the movements of a ship that looks to be the latest...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Iran: The Elephant in the Room]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/06/03/iran_the_elephant_in_the_room_96795.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Brookes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, President Obama is likely to use this week's visits to Saudi Arabia and Egypt as stops on his Apology World Tour, repudiating Bush-era Middle East and War on Terror policies.
Instead of creating perceptions of weakness -- which would only invite more provocations and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Price of Pelosi's CIA Slam]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nypost.com/seven/05162009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/deadly_distraction_169503.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Cyberspy Threat]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/05/01/the_cyberspy_threat_96290.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Brookes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America needs to pay a heckuva a lot more attention to the cyberthreat. Now.
Sure, the Pentagon is refuting a Wall Street Journal report last week that hackers pinched loads of data on the military's newest, high-tech fighter aircraft from contractors' computer networks via the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are al-Qaeda and Taliban Coming to a Prison Near You?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/04/are_al_qaeda_and_taliban_comin.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Brookes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[[A]l Qaeda remains intent on attacking U.S. interests worldwide, including the U.S. homeland.--Dennis Blair, director of National Intelligence, February 2009On only his second day in office, newly minted President Barack Obama promulgated an executive order closing the terrorist...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[China Tests--And Team Obama Blinks]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/03/china_testsand_team_obama_blin.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Brookes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Just two weeks after the Obama Pentagon crowed that the recent US-China military-to-military talks were practically the best ever, Beijing's navy confronted a US ship operating in international waters in the South China Sea.Talk about a cold, hard slap of reality.The naval affair was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bush Has Left a Better World]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nypost.com/seven/01112009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/bushs_better_world_149578.htm?page=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Brookes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Posted: 1:50 amJanuary 11, 2009 If you asked Americans to list President Bush's foreign policy and national security accomplishments, you'd likely get some laughs - surely some snarky comments. Perhaps, at best, a short list.  But, in truth, there are a number of great successes. So as...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's a Real Cold War in Europe]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/01/its_a_real_cold_war.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Brookes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Russia's decision to cut off natural-gas shipments to Ukraine - and essentially 13 other European states that receive gas via its pipelines - is a lot more than a business decision based on failed year-end contract negotiations.A lot more.Sure, the Russian state-owned natural-gas...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Russia, China Move In on Latin America]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2008/11/russia_china_move_in_on_latin.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Missile Defense: Stakes Rising on Obama's 1st Test]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nypost.com/seven/11182008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/missile_defense__bullying_barack_139253.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[China's Cyber Spies Infiltrating U.S.]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nypost.com/seven/11122008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/chinas_cyber_spies_138262.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hugo's Arms Spree]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/08/hugos_arms_spree.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Brookes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bogota, Colombia - While Colombia has gone great guns in quashing the narcoterrorist FARC insurgency here - including a daring July hostage-rescue raid - trouble is still brewing right next door in Venezuela.Just this week, Latin America's troublemaker-in-chief, Venezuelan President Hugo...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Iran Flaunts Its Aggressive Intent]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nypost.com/seven/07102008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/mullahs__missiles_119236.htm</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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