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<title><![CDATA[James Jay Carafano - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/17996.xml</link><description><![CDATA[James Jay Carafano]]></description><category domain="17996">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Biden Worsens the Mess at the Southern Border]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/biden-border-mess-adversaries-view-crisis-james-jay-carafano</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Jay Carafano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' his'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' first press conference'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' as president, Biden addressed the border'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' crisis by regurgitating the talking points his press team, allies and an adoring media have been repeating for days.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump &amp; Obrador Must Take on the Cartels]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/mexican-ambush-trump-obrador-cartels-win-james-carafano</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Jay Carafano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The unchecked power of criminal enterprises in Mexico poses an unacceptable threat, not just to Mexico, but to the entire Western Hemisphere.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Syria, Spotlight Should Be on Turkey, Not Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/2019/10/12/opinion-syria-global-spotlight-should-turkey-not-trump/3942321002/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Jay Carafano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Syria is lit as Turkey goes after the Kurds. As always, President Trump seems to be the center of attention. But in this case, all eyes really ought to be on Turkey.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Blame Dems for Border Mess, Not Nielsen or Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/james-jay-carafano-if-trump-critics-think-dhs-resignation-will-change-his-mind-on-the-border-think-again</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Jay Carafano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Securing the border is a critical mission. It was never something to be complacent about, and the situation there has demonstrably deteriorated.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sensible Border Security Justifies Govt Shutdown]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/01/02/government-shutdown-border-wall-justifies-budget-battle-editorials-debates/2466822002/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Jay Carafano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While our political parties squabble over funding, America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s enemies could weaponize illegal migration]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tillerson Deserves Cheers for Fixing State Dysfunction]]></title>
							<link>http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/the-administration/348471-tillerson-deserves-cheers-for-fixing-states</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Jay Carafano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' letter'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' to Sen.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Bob Corker'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Tillerson noted that the reforms will do more than save money and streamline operations. These integrations also help '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'address concerns that under the current structure, a special envoy or...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Courts Should Let Government Do Its Job]]></title>
							<link>http://dailysignal.com/2017/06/04/terror-hit-london-us-courts-let-government-job/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Jay Carafano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[London's latest terror attack is a reminder of the importance of government's most basic role.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Obama's Big Ebola Error]]></title>
							<link>http://nationalinterest.org/feature/obamas-great-big-ebola-error-11450</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Jay Carafano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The White House has declared Ebola to be a top national-security concern. That ought to worry Americans. The last time a president tried to make a disease a national-security issue, he helped trigger a global pandemic that killed 50 million people.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Nominations for &quot;Lone Survivor' a Travesty]]></title>
							<link>http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/03/01/academy-hollywood-failure-to-recognize-lone-survivor-travesty/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Jay Carafano</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Waterworld" got nominated for an Academy Award. No kidding. All right, it was for "best sound mixing." Still, the nearly unwatchable 1995 science-fiction box-office bomb had a chance of walking away with Oscar. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' No such luck for "Lone Survivor," the riveting true-life story of a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Foreign Policy to Nowhere]]></title>
							<link>http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/obamas-foreign-policy-nowhere-9741</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>James Jay Carafano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sir Hew Strachan, an advisor to the Chief of the British Defense Staff, made some ripples across the pond with his judgment on the U.S. president'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s foreign policy. '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'Obama has no sense of what he wants to do in the world,'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' Strachan said.Coming from a world-class military historian, it...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Obama Doctrine Has Officially Collapsed]]></title>
							<link>http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/09/11/obama-doctrine-has-officially-collapsed-putin-is-now-in-charge/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Jay Carafano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There were numerous oddball characters in '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'M.A.S.H.,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' the old TV show about a surgical hospital in the battlefront in Korea. One of them, Major Winchester, considered himself the consummate practitioner. In one episode, he droned continually, "I do one thing. I do it very...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[5 Leadership Lessons for President Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/08/31/five-leadership-lessons-on-syria-and-military-power-for-obama/?intcmp=trending</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 01 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Jay Carafano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama's Saturday speech on Syria (where he decided not to decide) offers at least five fine examples of how not to employ military power.Consulting with Congress is, of course, exactly the right step to take before committing both U.S. armed forces and the American people to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Go to Mat for Pakistani Who Helped Find OBL]]></title>
							<link>http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/05/23/obama-must-go-to-mat-for-pakistani-doctor-who-helped-us-find-bin-laden/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Jay Carafano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 2006, then-President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan offered a startling revelation. A senior US official, he claimed, had "said that after the Sept. 11 attacks, the United States threatened to bomb his country if it did not cooperate with America's war campaign against the Taliban in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Back to the Days of Jimmy Carter]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/obama_taking_carter_back_to_the_4NyhBGL4E0C96x377ij21H</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Jay Carafano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Somebody in the Iranian government backed a planned terrorist attack in America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s back yard? No surprise there. Tehran didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t earn a reputation as the world'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s premier state sponsor of terrorism for nothing.Nor is it terribly shocking to hear that the plot was intended to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What's Our Plan in Libya?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/what_our_plan_5eAoW5R0SbufgmiuIIoE9K</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Jay Carafano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Judging from his press conference yesterday, it seems President Obama is unaware of the oldest maxim in war -- "The enemy gets a vote."Hours earlier, for example, Libyan Foreign Minister Musa Kusa declared  to journalists in Tripoli that the regime had declared a ceasefire --  so there...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Gulf Residents Are Infuriated at Gov't]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_gulf_crisis_isn_over_FlVx4HRhnOePPnquwi4WrL</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Jay Carafano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Oil's well that ends well -- or so the White  House hopes.Almost as soon as BP announced it had  succeeded (at least for now) in plugging the Deepwater Horizon gusher, President Obama called a White House press conference -- his first  in nearly a year. His main message: The crisis is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[After Afghanistan, Will We Squander the Victory?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/06/18/after_afghanistan_will_we_squander_the_victory_97049.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Jay Carafano</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Victory deserves a future." That thought was a guiding light for one of the 20th century's greatest leaders -- Winston Churchill.He lamented the "wilderness years" that followed his resignation from government during World War I.
Out of political power, he found himself impotent to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Harness Web 2.0 to Protect the Country]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/05/19/how_to_harness_web_20_to_protect_the_country_96554.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Jay Carafano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Computers have changed how Americans do almost everything. Soon they may alter national security. There is much more on the information superhighway these days than information. There is a traffic jam of conversation facilitated by e-mail, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr, Digg,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Serious Questions on Obama's Security Strategies]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/04/28/serious_questions_on_obamas_security_strategies_96214.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Jay Carafano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[While marking the first hundred days of a new presidency is a tradition that dates back to the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt, the focus of media hype and pundit analysis usually focuses on domestic policies--grading how effectively a new leader can shape Washington's agenda. Matters...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dirty Secrets About Dirty Bombs]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/03/dirty_secrets_about_dirty_bomb.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>James Jay Carafano</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's an all-too likely scenario. Terrorists detonate a "dirty" bomb, an explosive device laced with radioactive material. Hundreds die--mostly because responders won't enter the contaminated area for fear of falling victim themselves.Thousands of "worried" well (folks afraid they might...]]></description>
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