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<title><![CDATA[Leslie Gelb - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/17532.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Leslie Gelb]]></description><category domain="17532">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Iran Deal's Missing Ingredient]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/14/the-iran-deal-s-missing-ingredient.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leslie Gelb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Both Iran and the United States essentially got what they wanted from the 159-page nuclear deal agreed Tuesday in Vienna.The Ayatollah Ali Khamenei&rsquo;s gains were more tangible than President Barack Obama&rsquo;s. The Supreme Leader got significant sanctions relief for his ailing...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's Losing Russia Strategy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/05/america-s-losing-russia-strategy.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leslie Gelb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[American hawks flapped their wings with joy when Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced recently that more military muscle would be deployed to the Baltics and Eastern Europe, and as word seeped out of significant covert U.S. military aid to Ukraine.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Russia and America: Toward a New Detente]]></title>
							<link>http://nationalinterest.org/feature/russia-america-toward-new-detente-13077</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leslie Gelb</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Hate WH More Than a Nuclear Iran]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/10/open-letter-to-iran-shows-gop-senators-hate-obama-more-than-they-love-america.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leslie Gelb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[That letter to Iranian leaders from 47 Republican senators could well destroy critical bipartisanship in U.S. foreign policy for years to come and treacherously undermine the bargaining power of the person constitutionally authorized to conduct American affairs abroad&mdash;the President...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Time for U.S. to Cut a Deal With Assad]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/22/face-it-obama-without-assad-you-ve-got-no-strategy-in-syria.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Leslie Gelb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[State Department professionals continue to argue furiously that the president must maintain the original approach, that is, to back moderate Sunni rebels fighting the Assad regime. They persist in this line despite the lack of any convincing evidence that these rebels, however noble...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Obama National Security Team Has to Go]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/13/this-is-obama-s-last-foreign-policy-chance.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Leslie Gelb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here&rsquo;s why America&rsquo;s failure to be represented at the Paris unity march was so profoundly disturbing. It wasn&rsquo;t just because President Obama&rsquo;s or Vice President Biden&rsquo;s absence was a horrendous gaffe. More than this, it demonstrated beyond argument that the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Dig Out of Our Stupid Sh&#42;t Foreign Policy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/13/here-s-how-to-dig-out-of-this-stupid-sh-t-u-s-foreign-policy.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leslie Gelb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The usually uninformed American citizens can be forgiven for being mystified by the Mideast policy prescriptions of their leaders. President Barack Obama promises to stop genocide in Iraq and not to do &ldquo;stupid shit,&rdquo; meaning virtually anything that might actually stop the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What We Must Do To Deal With Mad Middle East]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/16/here-s-what-the-u-s-has-to-do-to-deal-with-the-mad-middle-east.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leslie Gelb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Muslim world&rsquo;s turned upside down. Washington must forge new alliances to meet the jihadi challenge. One of its partners should be Iran.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Unhappy Truth About Ukraine &amp; Russia]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/02/the-unhappy-truth-about-ukraine.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leslie Gelb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The reality that no one in the West can bear to face is that there is nothing that can be done to stop the growing control of Russia and Russian-backed militias in eastern Ukraine. President Obama, Secretary of State Kerry, and a few half-hearted Europeans can threaten and bloviate, but...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Dangerous Nuclear Dance]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leslie Gelb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The White House press corps should ask President Obama this question: You&#194;&#146;ve told Iran&#194;&#146;s leaders that if they come close to marrying a nuclear warhead with a missile that can hit the United States or our allies, they should expect a U.S. military attack on their soil. Specifically, Mr....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Handling Libya, Egypt Situations Well]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/17/leslie-h-gelb-on-the-mysteries-of-the-middle-east-riots.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leslie Gelb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I was all set to take a swipe at the Obama team for not being strong enough in their response to last week's horrors in Libya and Egypt. But the more I dug into what they said and did, the more I saw that they handled matters about as well as possible under nasty circumstances and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Three Storms Ahead]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/12/war-looms-for-obama-in-iran-syria-and-north-korea.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leslie Gelb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama is being pushed and pulled into three conflicts"&#194;&#147;Iran, Syria, and North Korea"&#194;&#147;where the respective endgames could be either just more inconclusive blather or actual military confrontation. Events are being driven mainly by three bad guys. Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Don't Rush Into Syria]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/02/12/why-obama-should-go-slow-in-syria.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Leslie Gelb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Faced with evil, Americans always want to be on the side of the angels. So American interventionists, hawks, and human-rights types are banding together, as they did in Libya, to stop President Bashar al-Assad from killing his people. But when interventionists become avenging angels,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[&quot;Mission Accomplished&quot; in Afghanistan]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/06/23/why-obama-should-have-declared-mission-accomplished-in-afghanistan.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leslie Gelb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I've spent the last few days tussling with friend and foe alike over President Obama's decision to withdraw 33,000 U.S. surge troops in a year's time. I know any sort of middle ground will unhinge lefties and righties both, but don't despair. To Democrats who think the withdrawal number...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Afghan President Trashes the United States]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/06/20/u-s-ambassador-karl-eikenberry-was-right-the-cost-of-afghan-president-karzai-s-runaway-rhetoric.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leslie Gelb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ambassador Karl Eikenberry spoke  for all Americans, hawks and doves, in publicly slamming President  Karzai last weekend. Soon to depart Kabul, the ambassador couldn&rsquo;t stand  another minute of Karzai&rsquo;s gratuitous attacks on an America that is  bleeding itself in lives and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mission Accomplished in Afghanistan]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703859304576306942627633336.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leslie Gelb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Afghanistan is no longer a war about vital American security  interests. It is about the failure of America's political elites to face  two plain facts: The al Qaeda terrorist threat is no longer centered in  that ancient battleground, and the battle against the Taliban is mainly  for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Obama Should Seize the Day]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newsweek.com/2011/05/05/pride-of-a-nation.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leslie Gelb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;So, what do you think?&rdquo; The brief  email from a key White House official greeted me Monday morning, along  with Osama bin Laden&rsquo;s death notices. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s the best I&rsquo;ve felt about my  country since 9/11,&rdquo; I responded. He shot back: &ldquo;It&rsquo;s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Libya Saps America's Power]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-04-17/-how-americas-failure-to-knock-out-libyas-gaddafi-emboldens-iran-north-korea/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leslie Gelb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Here's what America's worst enemies like Iran and North Korea are  spouting on the international circuit about Libya: If the vaunted and  mighty NATO and the U.S. can't humble that weirdo Col. Gaddafi  and his pint-size army, "what do we have to worry about?" To be sure,  NATO and the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Libya a Distraction From Vital U.S. Concerns]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-04-06/how-humanitarian-interventionists-are-distracting-attention-from-the-mideast-and-americas-needs/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leslie Gelb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Humanitarian interventionists without a cause: that&#194;&#146;s what they were  until they found the fires of hell in Libya. Iraq, the old humanitarian  banner, was worn out, Afghanistan never quite caught on, and somehow  today&#194;&#146;s humanitarians never flew into rages over the moral horrors in ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Military Not Happy Over Libya]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-31/us-military-not-happy-over-libya/?cid=bs:archive11#</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leslie Gelb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Pentagon civilian leaders and the military brass see nothing but  trouble looming as the Obama administration takes one step after another  into the Libyan morass. The next step appears to be arming the Libyan rebels, a move that would inevitably entail pressures to send U.S. trainers...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Egypt Flip-Flops]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-02-04/egypt-protests-obamas-flip-flop-naive-media-on-extremists-and-more-fears/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Leslie Gelb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the Egyptian earthquake  rumbles into its second week&#194;&#151;with implications for U.S. security in the  Middle East rivaling those for the Soviet Union during the 1989  uprisings in Eastern Europe&#194;&#151;three matters roil my mind:First, most of the American talkocracy is now so utterly...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Beware Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-01-29/beware-egypts-muslim-brotherhood/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Leslie Gelb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Difficult as it may be, let's try for an honest and realistic discussion of Egypt.  Of course, the Obama administration, most Americans, most Egyptians,  and I myself would prefer a democratic government in Cairo instead of President Mubarak's  corrupt and repressive establishment....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[China Won This Test of Wills and Power]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-01-19/us-china-summit-a-stalemate-leslie-h-gelb-on-why-dinner-almost-canceled-obama-didnt-get-the-concessions-he-needed-from-hu-but-he-simply-didnt-have-the-cards-to-play-writes-leslie-h-gelb/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Leslie Gelb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This U.S.-China summit was  a test of the balance of power between the two superpowers. President  Barack Obama and President Hu Jintao were well aware of the summit  stakes. Obama&rsquo;s strategy was to push as hard as he could, and he did. He  needed Chinese concessions for a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Groundhog Day for Afghanistan Policy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-12-13/obamas-afghanistan-review-promises-more-war-us-economic-hardship/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Leslie Gelb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration just finished its review of the situation in Afghanistan. But the president&rsquo;s team didn&rsquo;t look hard at U.S. interests in Afghanistan. Nor did they measure all of this against U.S. interests and needs at home.So, President Obama decided that U.S....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What the WikiLeaks Documents Really Reveal]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-07-26/wikileaks-what-the-documents-reveal/?cid=bs:archive1</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leslie Gelb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What do the secret documents released by WikiLeaks tell us about U.S. policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan? It has to be said right off that they don&rsquo;t tell us anything important we didn&rsquo;t already know. There have been &ldquo;informed&rdquo; stories for years detailing how...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Snub of Vets by WH, Congress Shocks Families]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-07-18/leslie-h-gelb-talks-to-veterans-leader-about-troops-with-ptsd/?cid=hp:mainpromo3</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leslie Gelb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was inauguration day for the nation&rsquo;s most modern facility for the  treatment of active-duty soldiers and veterans suffering from brain  injuries and psychological disorders&mdash;5,000 of them with families  on hand. At the podium in Bethesda, Maryland, stood Arnold Fisher, ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Afghanistan Trap]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-06-16/afghanistan-no-end-in-sight/?cid=bs:archive5</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leslie Gelb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The United States will be trapped in Afghanistan for many costly  years to come. It is a good bet that President Obama will have most of  the 105,000 U.S. troops expected there by the end of summer, still in  that sorry country by the next presidential election, and probably even  five...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Forgettable New Security Strategy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-05-27/obama-presents-a-new-security-strategy/?cid=bs:archive5</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leslie Gelb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Just about every senior Obama official is fanning out around Washington to brief the cognoscenti and the media on the president&rsquo;s new national security strategy. These officials are so excited about the document released on Thursday you&rsquo;d think they had discovered bubble gum....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Our Nuke Policy Doesn't Work]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-05-20/why-our-nuke-policy-doesnt-work/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leslie Gelb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In recent days, we have seen the future of diplomatic machinations with Iran, and it is messier and more alarming than before. Its challenges are rooted as much in America's peculiarities as Iran's, and now, as well, in the newfound muscle and assertiveness of new major powers. These...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Israel Plays with Fire]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-03-16/israels-stupid-move/?cid=bs:featured1</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Leslie Gelb</author>
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