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<title><![CDATA[Tony Karon - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/17268.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Tony Karon]]></description><category domain="17268">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Echoes of Vietnam in the U.S. Afghan Exit Strategy]]></title>
							<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/02/obamas-afghanistan-plan-echoes-of-vietnam-in-the-u-s-exit-strategy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tony Karon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To understand the historical significance of President Barack Obama&rsquo;s visit to Afghanistan on Tuesday, imagine that President Richard Nixon had, in the spring of 1972, flown to Saigon to signal American voters that the Vietnam war was coming to an end &mdash; and to ink a deal with...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can the West Learn to Love Islamists?]]></title>
							<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2011/10/24/as-tunisia-counts-its-votes-can-the-west-stop-worrying-and-learn-to-love-the-islamists/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tony Karon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tunisia's election and Libya's celebration of the overthrow of Col. Muammar Gaddafi won't have made for a happy weekend among those fevered heads in Washington who believe the West is locked in an existential struggle with political Islam: If anything, the Islamist tones of the Libyan...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Troop Levels Won't Affect Outcome in Afghanistan]]></title>
							<link>http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2011/06/21/whatever-troops-levels-obama-maintains-the-u-s-is-spinning-its-wheels-in-afghanistan/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tony Karon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama will announce on Wednesday the size of the troop  withdrawal from Afghanistan that he will order in July in keeping with  the symbolic drawdown he has promised. His top military men appear to  want to keep most combat troops  in the field for at least another two years;...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Afghan War Reaches a Milestone and Keeps Going]]></title>
							<link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2033043,00.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tony Karon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Saturday Nov. 27, the United States and its allies will reach a grim  milestone: they will have been in Afghanistan a day longer than the  Soviet Union had been when it completed its 1989 withdrawal. What's  more, the U.S. announced  during last weekend's NATO summit that it intends...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bullets, Not Ballots, Will Decide Afghanistan]]></title>
							<link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2020245,00.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tony Karon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sure,  Afghanistan's fourth democratic election since the 2001 overthrow of  the Taliban was blighted by low turnout thanks to Taliban violence, and  by familiar allegations of widespread ballot fraud, but none of that  will have much impact on Afghanistan's future.The fact that the 3.6...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Iran: Can Sanctions and Diplomacy Be Combined?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1991035,00.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tony Karon</author>
							<description><![CDATA["The purpose of sanctions is to bring the Iranian side to the  negotiating table," said Li Baodong, China's U.N. ambassador, this week,  explaining how Beijing could simultaneously support a new uranium-swap  deal brokered by Brazil and Turkey and endorse new U.N. sanctions. The  Obama...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Iran Complicates Obama's Nuke High Ground]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100502/OPINION/705019964/1080</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tony Karon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The US secretary of state Hillary Clinton was clearly unsettled by the news that the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, plans to show up in New York on Monday at the UN's Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference. As far as the US is concerned, Iran is a pariah in the international...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Gates Is Right to Worry About U.S. Iran Strategy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1983216,00.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tony Karon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Defense Secretary Robert Gates, according to Sunday's New York Times, warned President Obama in a  classified memo in January that the U.S. lacks an effective strategy for  dealing with Iran's nuclear progress. Gates later rushed to set the  record straight, saying his memo had been...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Netanyahu Heads Home, Still at Odds with U.S.]]></title>
							<link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1975161,00.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Does Obama Have a Plan B for the Middle East?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1937097,00.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tony Karon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's hardly surprising that President Barack Obama chose to schedule a White House visit by Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the dead of night on Monday, because right now Obama has little to show for his 10-month effort to revive a Middle East peace process. The Israeli...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Nuclear Deadline Looms for Iran--and for Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1920189,00.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Keeps Up Pressure on Israel]]></title>
							<link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1910376,00.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Iran: Four Ways the Crisis May Resolve]]></title>
							<link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1905356,00.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tony Karon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Some observers see Iran's courageous protests against a stolen election as a replay of the 1979 revolution that ended the tyranny of the Shah &#151; or of the "velvet revolutions" that ended communism in Eastern Europe. Others fear a repeat of China's 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. But...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Strategic Price of Israel's Gaza Assault]]></title>
							<link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1868864,00.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tony Karon</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A hot war in Gaza was not how Israel planned to appear on the strategic agenda of Barack Obama when he takes office in January. Its leaders had hoped to keep the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the backburner of the new Administration, which Israel hopes will make Iran's nuclear program...]]></description>
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