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<title><![CDATA[Christopher Preble - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/18671.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Christopher Preble]]></description><category domain="18671">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[As Rubio Falters, Will Neocons Bolt to Clinton?]]></title>
							<link>http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-skeptics/marco-rubio-the-neocons-last-stand-15443</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Preble</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Judging from pundits and partisans on both sides of the Trump vs. #NeverTrump divide, the race for the GOP nomination may be decided once and for all over the course of the next seven days. At least some Republican Party leaders have already thrown in the towel. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s too...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Libya Epitomizes Clinton's Not-So-Smart Power]]></title>
							<link>http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-skeptics/libya-epitomizes-clintons-not-so-smart-power-15130</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Preble</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A long profile on Hillary Clinton in the Washington Post earlier this week highlights the 2011 Libyan intervention as a key indicator of her approach to foreign policy. Clinton claims that the Libyan bombing campaign was an example of &ldquo;smart power at its best.&rdquo; If she...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Some Call 'Isolationism,' Others Call Common Sense]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/03/what_some_call_isolationism_others_call_common_sense_118248.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Preble</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In a recent op ed, former Senators Joseph Lieberman and Jon Kyl darkly warned of the dangers of &ldquo;isolationism.&rdquo; They never actually define what isolationism is, nor who supposedly believes in it, aside from a link to a single speech delivered earlier this year by Sen. Rand...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[SecDef Should Tackle Personnel Costs]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/15/secdef_should_tackle_personnel_costs_117954.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Preble</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel went before the House Armed Services Committee to answer questions about President Obama&rsquo;s proposed FY 2014 military budget. The request for $526.6 billion for the base DoD budget is $3.9 billion lower than the 2012 enacted level. While...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[More Calls for Intervention in Syria]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/03/22/more_calls_for_intervention_in_syria_117611.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Preble</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Pressure is building on President Obama to involve the United States more deeply in the brutal civil war in Syria that may have claimed as many as 70,000 lives, and created more than a million refugees. Late last week, the editorial board of the Washington Post called for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Iraq War Was No Cake Walk]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/03/21/the_iraq_war_was_no_cake_walk_117581.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Preble</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tragically, the Iraq War was not worth the costs. The leading advocates for war understated the costs and exaggerated the benefits. They claimed that the war would be cheap, perhaps even profitable, thanks to lower oil prices. They suggested that it would be easy, a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Round One Goes to the Budget Hawks]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/03/08/round_one_goes_to_the_budget_hawks_117355.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Preble</author>
							<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The budget hawks have defeated the defense hawks.&rdquo; So read one analyst&rsquo;s verdict last Friday on the news that, despite months of dire warnings from the Obama administration and the Pentagon&rsquo;s allies on Capitol Hill, automatic budget cuts to the U.S. Defense...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Neocons' Fight Over Chuck Hagel]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/01/14/the_neocons_fight_over_chuck_hagel_116680.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Preble</author>
							<description><![CDATA[By nominating Chuck Hagel to be the next secretary of defense, after an excruciatingly long period of uncertainty and speculation, President Obama has demonstrated that he is disinclined to follow the advice of the neoconservatives who have been his harshest critics. Bill Kristol&rsquo;s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cut $68 Billion From Defense Spending]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/solution-to-fiscal-cliff-should-include-senator-coburns-68-billion-in-pentagon-spending-cuts/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Preble</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Next: Bill Kristol and TaxesPrevious: A Time for Choosing: The GOP and the Marijuana Initiatives
			Posted by Christopher Preble        The fiscal cliff is looming and Washington is scrambling to reach a deal to avoid a Thelma and Louise ending in January. To start, policymakers need to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Explaining the GOP's Silence on Current Wars]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/explaining-the-gops-silence-on-current-wars/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Preble</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Next: Democrats to Propose Increasing Unemployment at Convention?Previous: Hayek in the New York Times
			Posted by Christopher Preble        At Time&#8216;s Battleland blog, Mark Thompson notes the relative dearth of discussion &#8212; on what was supposed to be foreign policy night at...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ryan vs. Romney on Defense Spending]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/ryan-vs-romney-on-pentagon-spending/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Preble</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Next: TSA Profiling, Security Theater, and the Fourth AmendmentPrevious: Is the American Electorate that Dumb?
			Posted by Christopher Preble        A Politico article on Paul Ryan&#8217;s views on the Pentagon&#8217;s budget concludes:A key question for the coming weeks will be how...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are Military Spending Cuts Good for the Economy?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/are-military-spending-cuts-good-for-the-economy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Preble</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Previous: The Iron Grip of Polarization
			Posted by Christopher Preble        Yesterday, Cato released a new video pointing out that the military spending cuts specified under the Budget Control Act's sequestration provision are not large relative to total spending, and would still have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Speech Connects to the Founders' Foreign Policy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/06/09/obama_speech_connects_to_the_founders_foreign_policy_96903.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Preble</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Predictably, the reaction to President Obama's Cairo speech has diverged along partisan lines. Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt declared that the speech conveyed "extraordinary weakness on the part of the United States." "It will indeed be a famous speech," Hewitt predicted, "for all...]]></description>
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