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<title><![CDATA[Adam Garfinkle - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/21756.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Adam Garfinkle]]></description><category domain="21756">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Khamenei Knows What He's Doing]]></title>
							<link>http://www.the-american-interest.com/2015/07/24/madness-and-skill/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Garfinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Many people assume Iran&#194;&#146;s Supreme Leader does not know what he is doing. It&#194;&#146;s a mistake to do so.Since I last put fingers to keyboard (the contemporary version of "pen to paper") on the Iran deal and debate on July 16, rather a lot has happened"&#194;&#148;not just as regards the deal but...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Sucks Up to Tehran. Will It Work?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.the-american-interest.com/2014/12/30/be-it-resolved/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Garfinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[NPR released yesterday a presidential interview, taped December 18, that bears on many issues, not least the Middle East. I probably should let the opportunity to comment pass, but I can&rsquo;t. I probably should eat much less ice cream too, but I can&rsquo;t seem to do that either....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Reluctant Warriors Make Special Mistakes]]></title>
							<link>http://www.the-american-interest.com/garfinkle/2014/09/23/the-bad-the-worse-and-the-lousy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Garfinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Obama Administration has just started its second Middle Eastern war, this one in Syria following some warm-up exercises in Iraq.  This follows the one it started in Libya back in March 2011, which, despite its coalition character and international legal pretense, may now fairly be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[US Mideast Policy: Malice or Incompetence?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.the-american-interest.com/garfinkle/2014/07/29/malice-or-incompetence/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Garfinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After a hectic day yesterday spent in large part seeing off my son, daughter-in-law, and two-year-old grandson on a two-year sojourn in Berlin, I hastened this morning to my keyboard to comment on perhaps the most noteworthy piece of U.S. diplomatic idiocy in the Middle East that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Is This Gaza War Different?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.the-american-interest.com/garfinkle/2014/07/24/why-is-this-gaza-war-different-from-all-other-gaza-wars/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Garfinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Whether one is some shade of pro-Israeli or pro-Palestinian, or even if one is without a favorite side to support or loathe, it is tempting to see what has been going on between Israel and Hamas in Gaza over the past two weeks as just another Mideastern example of George Shultz&rsquo;s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What the Malaysia Air Tragedy Means]]></title>
							<link>http://www.the-american-interest.com/garfinkle/2014/07/17/what-the-malaysian-airlines-tragedy-means/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Garfinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I found out about the downing of Malaysian Airlines 17 from a Russian colleague, Vladislav Inozemtsev, offering condolences to his American associates in a multi-addressed email for the loss of American lives. I had been out in the yard pulling ivy for a couple hours. You go out on a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[And Now for a Real Libya Slaughter]]></title>
							<link>http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/middleeast/2011/08/16/and-now-for-a-real-slaughter/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20the-american-interest%2Fmiddleeast%20%28AI%20Middle%20East%20Blog%29</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Garfinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I have not written in this space on Libya, and the Western intervention therein, since March 22&mdash;just days after some $350 million worth of U.S. cruise missiles commenced the NATO campaign against the regime of Muammar Gaddafi. That is nearly five months ago, in a war that was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama's Wilsonian Madness]]></title>
							<link>http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/middleeast/2011/03/22/down-the-rabbit-hole/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Garfinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To all appearances, U.S. foreign policy in the Obama Administration has now definitively gone down the rabbit hole. It is intoxicated with an advanced form of Wilsonian madness, one shorn of all sensitivity to the consequences of the U.S. government's behavior. Like Alice with her pills,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama: An Innocent Abroad]]></title>
							<link>http://www.the-american-interest.com/article.cfm?piece=902</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Adam Garfinkle</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If, as Winston Churchill declared on 1 October, 1939, Russia is "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma"?, then the foreign policy of the Obama administration is an ambivalence wrapped in a mentality inside a perplexity. The latter is not as inclined to malignity as was the...]]></description>
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