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<title><![CDATA[Peter Bergen - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16132.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Peter Bergen]]></description><category domain="16132">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Carter's Foreign Policy Legacy More Successful Than Believed]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/international-relations/jimmy-carter-s-foreign-policy-legacy-is-far-more-complex-and-successful-than-he-gets-credit-for/ar-AA1wWKet</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Bergen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Early in his presidency, in May 1977, then-President Jimmy Carter gave a commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame that outlined a new approach to America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s role in the world: Carter said human rights should be a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'fundamental tenet of our foreign policy.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Deal That Can End the War in Gaza]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/01/opinions/this-deal-can-end-the-war-in-gaza-bergen/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Bergen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s taken more than half a year, but, finally, President Joe Biden has publicly unveiled an Israeli plan that could end the bloodshed in Gaza.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Navalny&rsquo;s Death, Echoes of Stalin]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/16/opinions/navalny-dead-putin-russia-stalin-bergen/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Bergen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t yet know the exact details of jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s death, reported Friday by the Russian prison service '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and we may never find the precise truth. But as US Vice President Kamala Harris put it in a speech at the Munich Security Conference,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Very Serious About Pulling Out of NATO]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/13/opinions/trump-pull-out-nato-bergen/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Bergen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s then-defense secretary, James Mattis, said in 2017 that NATO is the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'most successful and powerful military alliance in modern history.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Bombing Strikes Are Sending the Wrong Message]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/03/opinions/problem-with-bombing-strikes-iraq-syria-bergen/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Bergen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Several media reports are echoing Biden administration talking points that the retaliatory strikes on more than 85 targets in Iraq and Syria last night were designed to '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'send a message'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' following a drone attack by an Iranian-backed militia that killed three US servicemembers in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Is in the Midst of a Middle East Regional War]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/29/opinions/us-middle-east-regional-war-bergen/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Bergen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Biden administration has a regional war on its hands in the Middle East and needs to change its strategy fast.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Did We Get to This Point in Yemen?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/12/opinions/yemen-houthi-iran-bergen/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Bergen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Joe Biden has launched arguably the most consequential military attack of this administration, striking multiple Houthi targets in Yemen and widening the conflict in the Middle East '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' something his administration has tried to avoid since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fentanyl Is a Poison in the U.S.-China Relationship]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/15/opinions/fentanyl-is-a-poison-in-the-us-china-relationship-bergen/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Bergen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Fentanyl and other synthetic opioids kill tens of thousands of young Americans a year, and the compound is helping to poison the US relationship with China.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What&rsquo;s Iran&rsquo;s Real Plan in Its Proxy Battle Against Israel?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/06/opinions/iran-hamas-proxy-battle-israel-bergen/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Bergen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Henry Kissinger once observed that Iranian leaders must decide if Iran is a cause or a nation.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the Public Can Help Stop the Next Mass Shooter]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/28/opinions/stopping-the-next-mass-shooter-bergen-tillman/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Bergen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After every large-scale mass shooting in the United States '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' including the one in Maine on Wednesday that left 18 victims dead and 13 others injured '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' there are the familiar and justified calls to limit or ban the sale of semi-automatic weapons or to pass more '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'red...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Did Hamas Attacks Have a Hidden Target?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/07/opinions/hamas-attacks-israel-palestine-diplomacy-bergen/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Bergen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The surprise weekend attack by Hamas, involving thousands of missiles fired from Gaza and on-the-ground fighting inside Israel, has the potential to upend an emerging diplomatic deal that could reshape the region.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Was Right To Swap for U.S. Hostages In Iran]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/18/opinions/high-price-of-getting-us-hostages-home-bergen/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Bergen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After the first wave of euphoria in the United States that five wrongly held Americans are coming home from prison in Iran, the predictable, mostly partisan, criticism of the deal that freed them is already beginning.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Did Biden Carry Out Trump's Afghan Withdrawal?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/09/opinions/trump-biden-afghanistan-withdrawal-taliban-bergen-tillman/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Bergen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In May 2018, then-President Donald Trump canceled the agreement with Iran to restrain its nuclear weapons program, saying '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the Iran deal was one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into."]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[UFO Sightings Might Be a Bigger Problem Than We Thought]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/12/opinions/china-military-ufo-shoot-down-spy-balloon-bergen</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Bergen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last month, the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a report about '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Unidentified Aerial Phenomena'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' in plain English, unidentified flying objects or UFOs.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Alarming Trend Reflected in the Brittney Griner Case]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/08/opinions/detained-americans-cost-brittney-griner-release-bergen</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Bergen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The release of basketball legend Brittney Griner, who was being held in a Russian penal colony on minor drug possession charges, in exchange for the notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, who was serving a long prison sentence in the United States, underlines an emerging trend of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Did Biden Admin Go Through With Trump's Afghan Exit?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/09/opinions/afghanistan-exit-a-year-later-bergen</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Bergen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 1961, after a CIA-backed invasion of Cuba failed spectacularly, President John F. Kennedy said of the Bay of Pigs fiasco, "Victory has 100 fathers and defeat is an orphan."]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mr. Biden Goes to Riyadh (Hat in Hand)]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/11/opinions/biden-saudi-arabia-mbs-bergen/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Bergen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Joe Biden heads this week to the Saudi capital, where he will meet with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, whose kingdom he once called]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Cost of Trump's Chaos Just Keeps Accumulating]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/28/opinions/donald-trump-chaos-bergen/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Bergen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On January 20, 2021, Donald Trump departed the White House on a helicopter that took him to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, where he delivered the final remarks of his presidency to some of his supporters. Before boarding Air Force One for the flight to Mar-a-Lago, his gilded palace in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[He's on FBI's Most-Wanted List &amp; a Key Member of Afghan Govt]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/09/opinions/haqqani-taliban-government-afghanistan-bergen/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Bergen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nothing says you are renouncing al Qaeda quite like appointing a member of al Qaeda to a top cabinet position in your new government, writes Peter Bergen. As the Taliban begins to constitute its new government in Afghanistan, it's becoming clear just how hard-line it's going to be....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Should've Reneged on Trump's Afghanistan Withdrawal]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/17/opinions/afghanistan-us-withdrawal-biden-bergen/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Bergen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Joe Biden claimed in his speech to the nation on Monday that he was bound by the Trump administration's agreement with the Taliban to withdraw all US troops from Afghanistan. However, there are multiple flaws with this argument.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Deserves Blame for the Debacle in Afghanistan]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/12/opinions/afghanistan-president-biden-debacle-bergen/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Bergen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Peter Bergen writes that President Joe Biden is presiding over a debacle entirely of his own making in Afghanistan -- and one that has unfolded more swiftly than even the most dire prognostications.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden's Afghansitan Speech Was Worst of His Presidency]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/09/opinions/biden-afghanistan-speech-malarkey-bergen/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Bergen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[CNN National Security Analyst Peter Bergen argues that President Joe Biden's speech defending US withdrawal from Afghanistan was peopled with straw men and littered with false assertions.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Foreign Policy Crisis on Joe Biden's Doorstep]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/24/opinions/afghanistan-us-troops-withdrawal-biden-bergen/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Bergen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Peter Bergen writes that, with the Taliban stronger than at any point since 2001, the Biden administration must take swift action to avoid disaster.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Team Inherits Trump's Ocean of Troubles]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/25/opinions/biden-team-inherits-trumps-troubles-bergen/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Bergen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The world is in many ways a more dangerous place than when Donald Trump took office, writes Peter Bergen. Against this scary backdrop, the six people Biden has chosen to fill key national security and foreign policy posts -- with around one and half centuries of public service among them...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Real Russia Hoax]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/02/opinions/real-russia-hoax-bounties-bergen/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Bergen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[CNN's Peter Bergen says that the White House response to reports that Russia paid bounties to the Taliban for killing US soldiers is a cover up for Trump's incompetence as commander in chief who is responsible for the welfare of the US military.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Elite Military Club That's Scorning Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/08/opinions/elite-military-club-scorning-trump-bergen/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Bergen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Peter Bergen writes that it has been extraordinary to see over the past week the flood of public criticism of President Donald Trump for his handling of the protests over the death of George Floyd coming from so many of the United States' leading retired generals and admirals, including...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tom Cotton's 'Send In the Troops' Op-Ed Is Just Wrong]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/04/opinions/tom-cotton-wrong-on-troops-bergen/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Bergen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Peter Bergen writes that the controversial New York Times opinion piece by the Arkansas senator failed to make a persuasive case for military intervention in American cities and suffered from factual inaccuracies and historical analogies that make scant sense.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Crazy Designation of Antifa as Terrorist Organization]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/31/opinions/trump-antifa-domestic-terrorist-bergen/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Bergen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Peter Bergen writes that Trump's hopes to designate Antifa as a terrorist organization is likely unconstitutional. Extremist groups have long existed in the US, but thanks to the First Amendment, Americans are free to belong and believe in them, as long as they don't commit any violent...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What's Behind Trump's Covid Quackery]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/19/opinions/hydroxychloroquine-trump-incompetence-bergen/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Bergen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Peter Bergen writes that the President is not the only Trump to play fast and loose with the reality of the Covid-19 contagion; his children do too.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Rick Bright's Apocalyptic Warning Right?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/14/opinions/is-rick-bright-right-bergen/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Peter Bergen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Peter Bergen writes that the ousted vaccine official is pointing to some real vulnerabilities as the US faces the prospect of a second wave of Covid-19 this winter.]]></description>
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