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<title><![CDATA[Dexter Filkins - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15551.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Dexter Filkins]]></description><category domain="15551">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Marco Rubio: From Trump Foe To Foreign Policy Enabler]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dexter Filkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As Secretary of State, the President'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s onetime foe now offers him lavish displays of public praise'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and will execute his agenda in Venezuela and around the globe.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is the U.S. Ready for the Next War?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dexter Filkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With global conflicts increasingly shaped by drones and A.I., the American military risks losing its dominance.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can DeSantis Be the GOP's New Combatant-in-Chief?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/06/27/can-ron-desantis-displace-donald-trump-as-the-gops-combatant-in-chief</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dexter Filkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A fervent opponent of mask mandates and woke'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' ideology, the Florida governor channels the same rage as the former President, but with greater discipline.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Colin Powell's Fateful Moment]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dexter Filkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a terrible paradox in the life of Colin Powell, who died Monday, that the most important moment of his celebrated career came not when he led troops under fire in Vietnam, or when he orchestrated the successful expulsion of Iraqi invaders from Kuwait in 1991, or when he became...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Did Making the Rules of War Better Make World Worse?]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dexter Filkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On the evening of March 9, 1945, the United States sent an armada of B-29 Superfortresses toward Japan, which for months had resisted surrender, even as a naval blockade brought much of the population to the brink of starvation. The B-29s were headed for Tokyo, and carried napalm, chosen...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Last Exit from Afghanistan]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dexter Filkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Will peace talks with the Taliban'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' and the prospect of an American withdrawal create a breakthrough or a collapse?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will Florida Decide 2020 or Throw It Into Confusion?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/will-florida-decide-the-presidential-race-or-throw-it-into-confusion</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dexter Filkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By the time Election Day is over, all the votes may not be counted. But there may be at least one way to know whether'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Joe Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' will be President'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'if he decisively wins the state of Florida.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Dangers Posed by the Killing of Soleimani]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dexter Filkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The killing of Qassem Suleimani, the Iranian commander targeted by an American strike Thursday night, is the most consequential act taken against the regime in Tehran in thirty years'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'even if we don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t know what those consequences will be. One thing is clear: we'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re entering...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Blood and Soil in Narendra Modi's India]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 07 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dexter Filkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On August 11th, two weeks after Prime Minister Narendra Modi sent soldiers in to pacify the Indian state of Kashmir, a reporter appeared on the news channel Republic TV, riding a motor scooter through the city of Srinagar.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia Enters a Dangerous Period]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/in-the-aftermath-of-khashoggis-murder-saudi-arabia-enters-a-dangerous-period</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dexter Filkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and his cohorts in Riyadh seem utterly determined to bury the truth.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Connection Between a Russian Bank and Trump Camp?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/15/was-there-a-connection-between-a-russian-bank-and-the-trump-campaign</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dexter Filkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A team of computer scientists sifted through records of unusual Web traffic in search of answers.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Syria Strikes and What Bashar al-Assad Wants]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-syria-strikes-and-what-bashar-al-assad-wants</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dexter Filkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Somewhere,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' deep in his concrete labyrinth, the dictator is smiling. Bashar al-Assad, Syria'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s President, gambled that he could use chemical weapons to seal a victory in an offensive just outside his country'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s capital, and that he and his regime could survive whatever the world...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Saudi Prince's Quest to Remake the Middle East]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/09/a-saudi-princes-quest-to-remake-the-middle-east</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dexter Filkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A few days after Donald Trump was inaugurated, Jared Kushner sat down to decide how to reshape the Middle East. During the campaign, Trump had promised a sweeping transformation of the region. Steve Bannon, Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s senior aide and ideologist at the time, told me recently, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Our...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rex Tillerson at the Breaking Point]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/16/rex-tillerson-at-the-breaking-point</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dexter Filkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One afternoon in late September, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called a meeting of the six countries that came together in 2015 to limit Iran'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s nuclear-weapons program. They gathered on the main floor of the United Nations headquarters, in Manhattan, in the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'consultations...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[James Mattis, a Warrior in Washington]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/29/james-mattis-a-warrior-in-washington</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dexter Filkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On January 22nd, two days after President Trump was inaugurated, he received a memo from his new Secretary of Defense, James Mattis, recommending that the United States launch a military strike in Yemen. In a forty-year career, Mattis, a retired Marine Corps general and a veteran of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Turkey's Vote Makes Erdogan Effectively a Dictator]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/turkeys-vote-makes-erdogan-effectively-a-dictator</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dexter Filkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For years, Erdogan'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s critics attributed to him a damning quotation that, they said, revealed his true intentions. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Democracy is like a train,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' Erdogan was said to have remarked. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'You get off once you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve reached your destination.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s not clear...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Last Chance for Turkish Democracy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/a-last-chance-for-turkish-democracy?</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dexter Filkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On April 16th, Turkey will vote on a referendum that, if passed, would dramatically increase the powers of President Recep Tayyip Erdo'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('„').';'?an.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Bigger Problem Than ISIS?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/02/a-bigger-problem-than-isis</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dexter Filkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Mosul Dam is failing. A breach would cause a colossal wave that could kill as many as a million and a half people.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Purge Begins In Turkey]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-purge-begins-in-turkey</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dexter Filkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Erdo'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('„').';'?an has made little secret of his desire to give himself near total power. There will be no stopping him now.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Troubled Truce in Syria]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/03/07/a-troubled-truce-in-syria</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dexter Filkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last Tuesday, Amaq, a news agency associated with the Islamic State, reported that ISIS fighters had captured the village of Khanaser from the Syrian government. Khanaser sits on the main supply route to the government-controlled part of Aleppo, Syria'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s largest city, and it has been...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Limits of the Kurds' War on ISIS]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-limits-of-the-kurds-war-on-isis?intcid=mod-latest</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Dexter Filkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Kurdish officials said today that their troops had raised their flag over the city of Sinjar, pushing out the fighters from ISIS who had held it since the middle of last year. That'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s very good news: ISIS'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' men have killed, raped, and enslaved untold numbers of Sinjar'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The End of the Erdogan Era?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-end-of-the-erdogan-era?intcid=mod-latest</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dexter Filkins</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[ISIS in Palmyra]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/isis-in-palmyra</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dexter Filkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In their rampage across Syria and Iraq, the zealots of ISIS have wrecked and looted countless sites of archeological wonder: in the ancient Assyrian cities of Nimrud and Khorsabad, they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve smashed temples and icons; in the Mosul Library, they'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve torched ancient manuscripts; at...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Real Problem in Iraq]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-real-problem-in-iraq</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dexter Filkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend, as ISIS fighters rolled into Ramadi, the capital of Iraq'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s Anbar Province, one of them posted a video to the Internet. It was shot from a recently captured Iraqi police station, and showed box after box of American mortar shells and bullets that appeared shiny and new.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[When Bombs Aren't Enough]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/turkey-kurds-battle-isis-kobani</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dexter Filkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Disaster is looming in Syria, again. Fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham, the fanatical group that has conquered swaths of the country, are pushing into Kobani, a Syrian town with a mostly Kurdish population that sits near the Turkish border. Thousands of Kurds have fled,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Fight of Their Lives: ISIS vs. the Kurds]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/29/fight-lives</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dexter Filkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Saleh, a former commander of the Kurdish army, was summoned to a meeting with Masoud Barzani, the President of the semiautonomous Kurdish region that occupies the northern part of Iraq. Barzani, a longtime guerrilla fighter, was alarmed. Twenty-four hours before, fighters with the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Murder of Steven Sotloff]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/death-steven-sotloff</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dexter Filkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the final moments before an ISIS executioner beheaded the American journalist Steven Sotloff, the masked man offered up, in an English accent, a message to his viewers: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'We take this opportunity to warn those governments that enter this evil alliance of America against the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Political Challenge in Iraq]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2014/06/30/140630taco_talk_filkins</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dexter Filkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama won the White House in part by promising to end the war in Iraq, and since then he placed his faith in Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to help him do so. It was Maliki who would hold together the state that the Americans had helped build.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's Legacy in Iraq]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2014/06/iraq-extremists-mosul-american-invasion-legacy.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dexter Filkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[First Falluja, then Mosul, and now the oil-refinery town of Bayji. The rapid advance of Al Qaeda-inspired militants across the Sunni heartland of northern and western Iraq has been stunning and relentless'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('—').';'and utterly predictable. Here'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s a forecast: the bad news is just beginning.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Syria's Shadow Commander]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/09/30/130930fa_fact_filkins</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Dexter Filkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last February, some of Iran'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s most influential leaders gathered at the Amir al-Momenin Mosque, in northeast Tehran, inside a gated community reserved for officers of the Revolutionary Guard. They had come to pay their last respects to a fallen comrade. Hassan Shateri, a veteran of...]]></description>
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