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							<title><![CDATA[Why Gold Star Parents Are the New Third Rail in Politics]]></title>
							<link>http://time.com/4434128/donald-trump-khizr-khan-gold-star-parents/?xid=homepage</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For decades, politicians have feared that trimming Social Security benefits would be so deadly to their electoral future&mdash;they&rsquo;d be electrocuted at the polls&mdash;that they haven&rsquo;t made the tough choices needed to save it. Over the last several days, we&rsquo;ve seen...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S.-China Showdown Keeps Inching Closer]]></title>
							<link>http://time.com/4236409/united-states-china-south-china-sea/?xid=homepage</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[China is playing a game of chicken with the United States in the South China Sea. All signs suggest that Beijing is betting the U.S. will blink and swerve away before it comes to war. China is brazenly challenging the hegemony that the U.S. has enjoyed on East Asian seas since World War...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In the Battle Against ISIS, Who Dies, and Why?]]></title>
							<link>http://time.com/4132551/lethality-or-leaflets-the-strange-killing-rules-in-the-isis-campaign/?xid=homepage</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When it comes to battling ISIS, both the rules of war and the rules of engagement&mdash;who can be killed, and when&mdash;have been wounded in action.Republican lawmakers expressed anger at a hearing Tuesday after Defense Secretary Ashton Carter explained why the U.S. military warned...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why America's ISIS Strategy Is Lagging]]></title>
							<link>http://time.com/3913433/barack-obama-isis-strategy-g7/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama rattled off a list of what has gone wrong in the U.S.-led fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria during a wrap-up press conference Monday following the G-7 summit in Germany. Although he didn&rsquo;t come out and say it, he made clear that while ISIS...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Peter Kassig's Powerful Silence]]></title>
							<link>http://time.com/3589350/peter-kassigs-powerful-silence-before-isis-beheaded-him/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The former Army Ranger did not address the camera.It&rsquo;s tough to take any solace when the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria commits a murder, as it made clear yet again on Sunday it had done with the release of a video of the apparent beheading of American Peter Kassig.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Details Surfacing, But Motive Remains Unknown]]></title>
							<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/09/17/the-navy-yards-lone-gunman/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Early reports suggested there were three shooters blasting away inside the Washington Navy Yard on Monday morning. But the number dwindled to two as police swarmed around Building 197, headquarters of the Naval Sea Systems Command, which drafts blueprints and oversees production of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[&quot;Stormin' Norman,&quot; 1934-2012]]></title>
							<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/12/27/stormin-norman-1934-2012/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For those who came of age during World War II, or post-9/11, the death Thursday of retired Army general H. Norman Schwarzkopf may not be of great moment. But for those of us who came of age during Vietnam, when that war veered from the discredited Gulf of Tonkin to the Tet Offensive to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[&quot;Green on Blue&quot; Killings Could Start Withdrawal]]></title>
							<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/03/02/green-on-blue/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Pentagon officials won&rsquo;t concede it, but privately defense officials say the spate of &ldquo;green-on-blue&rdquo; killings by Afghans of their purported U.S. allies over the past two weeks could lead to major changes in U.S. strategy. If they continue, the U.S. will face a brutal...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Nuance on Libya is Not Working]]></title>
							<link>http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2011/03/23/disarray/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This is a word that crops up whenever a military coalition gets  underway. It's like making laws, sausage or journalism -- messy up  close. Generally, there's a week or two of bumps, and then smooth  sailing. Sometimes -- like in Iraq, for example -- it can take years,  but that's due...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[War with Libya? What the U.N. Resolution Means]]></title>
							<link>http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2011/03/17/war-with-libya-looms/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After weeks of warning from the Pentagon about the downsides of  launching a no-fly zone over Libya, the U.S. and its major European  allies declared war on Muammar Gaddafi and his forces holding on to  power in the north African nation. NATO surveillance aircraft have been  scouring...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Did Army Give Hasan a Pass Because of Religion?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1937334,00.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As officials continue to investigate the alleged Fort Hood killer, it is
looking increasingly likely that the Army missed several red flags in Major
Nidal Malik Hasan's behavior. Many observers say it wouldn't be surprising if
such signals had been missed, given that Hasan was a ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Turning Point Looms for the U.S. in Afghanistan]]></title>
							<link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1919545,00.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Thompson</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Dilemma Grows on Torture Prosecutions]]></title>
							<link>http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1893023,00.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Thompson</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Less than a day after President Barack Obama told CIA employees in person that he didn't support prosecuting them for harsh interrogations of terror suspects, he
left open the possibility that those who drafted the legal opinions justifying such questionable techniques could end up...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama vs. Gates: A Showdown Over Nukes]]></title>
							<link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1873887,00.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Thompson</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Response Reflects McCain's Simplistic World View]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/cross_tabs/2008/08/what_matters_most.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Thompson</author>
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