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<title><![CDATA[Francis Sempa - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/31399.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Francis Sempa]]></description><category domain="31399">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[RFK Jr. Wows GOP Like Jeane Kirkpatrick Did in 1984]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/rfk-jr-wows-the-gop-like-jeane-kirkpatrick-did-in-1984/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Sempa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In Dallas, Kennedy reprises a 1984 convention theme: a lifelong Democrat explaining why he crossed the aisle.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Avoiding the 'Guns of August' 2026]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2026/08/09/avoiding_the_guns_of_august_2026_1199298.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Sempa</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The New Terror Network]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/the-new-terror-network/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Sempa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rubio says the West fought jihadism only to ignore another ideological movement that has justified violence for generations.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Five Pillars of Trump's Foreign Policy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2026/07/12/five_pillars_of_trumps_foreign_policy_1193917.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Sempa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Eighty-three years ago this month, Foreign Affairs published Sir Halford Mackinder'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s last iteration of his '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'heartland'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' theory of global geopolitics titled '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The Round World and the Winning of the Peace.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Iran, Trump's Role Model Should Be Bismarck]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/in-the-iran-war-trumps-role-model-should-be-bismarck/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Sempa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As critics demand escalation or retreat, Trump is attempting what Bismarck understood best.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Struggle for the World]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2026/06/09/the_struggle_for_the_world_1187805.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Sempa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Eighty years ago, James Burnham was putting the finishing touches on the first book of his Cold War trilogy, The Struggle for the World, which was published in 1947.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Confounds His Critics Again]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/trump-confounds-critics-again/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Sempa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump has once again confounded his'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' many critics'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' by agreeing to a two-week ceasefire in the war against Iran, after threatening to bomb Iran back to the Stone Age and end a civilization.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Iran: Ends and Means]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2026/03/07/iran_war_ends_and_means_1169124.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Sempa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The U.S.-Israeli war against Iran is only a few days old. U.S. and Israeli forces have replayed the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'shock and awe'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' of the previous 12-day war that destroyed much of Iran'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s nuclear weapons'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' facilities.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hegseth Pentagon Delivering Where Others Failed]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/the-experts-were-wrong-about-pete-hegseth/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Sempa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Remember all the criticisms Pete Hegseth endured as his nomination to head the Pentagon proceeded? Besides the gratuitous personal attacks, many so-called defense experts pronounced Hegseth unqualified for the job. Liberal National]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Post-Globalist 'Flexible Realism']]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/trumps-post-globalist-flexible-realism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Sempa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s NSS renounces globalism, deters rivals, and puts America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s sovereignty first.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ukraine Isn't Worth One American Life]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2025/12/06/ukraine_isnt_worth_one_american_life_1151665.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Sempa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Appearing recently on ABC'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' This Week. Republican Representative Michael McCaul, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Democratic Senator John Warner, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, criticized the Trump peace plan for the Ukraine War. McCaul said he...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Political Stunt Endangers America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2025/11/25/political_stunt_endangers_america_1149561.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Sempa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Six Democratic members of Congress'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'Senators Elissa Slotkin and Mark Kelly and Representatives Maggie Goodlander, Chrissy Houlahan, Chris Deluzio, and Jason Crow'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'in a reckless and dangerous political stunt made a social media'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' video'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' that urges members of our armed forces and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Horror Story Stephen King Would Never Write]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/a-horror-story-stephen-king-would-never-write/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Sempa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[His liberal ideology and TDS wouldn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t stand for an accurate portrayal of horrors committed by some illegal aliens.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democracy Promotion Is Dead: Good Riddance]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2025/08/11/democracy_promotion_is_dead_good_riddance_1127974.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Sempa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What passes for intellectual heft at The Atlantic magazine is any criticism of President Donald Trump.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Let's Hope This Isn't Trump's &lsquo;Mission Accomplished&rsquo; Moment]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/lets-hope-trumps-spectacular-military-success-is-not-bushs-mission-accomplished/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Sempa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The United States military last evening performed skillfully and courageously in attacking three of Iran'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s nuclear sites. Just as it performed skillfully and courageously in initially defeating the Iraqi army in 2003 and toppling the regime of Saddam Hussein.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Avoiding the Third World Wars]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/avoiding-the-third-world-wars/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Sempa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The United States is involved to varying degrees in four regional conflicts that have the potential to evolve into a global conflagration.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[National Security, Presidential Power and the Law]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2025/05/09/national_security_presidential_power_and_the_law_1109425.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Sempa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Liberal historians and scholars who praise Andrew Jackson'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s, Abraham Lincoln'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s, Theodore Roosevelt'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s, and Franklin Roosevelt'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s expansive approach to executive power under Article II of the Constitution, condemn that same approach when Donald Trump does it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Team of Realists]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2025/04/12/trumps_team_of_realists_1103669.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Sempa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'America First'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' foreign policy is taking shape. Its essence is geographical, and the tools to facilitate it are economic, diplomatic, and military power. It eschews abstractions and sentiment in favor of Bismarckian realism. If Abraham Lincoln led...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump and the Economics of Statecraft]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2025/04/07/trump_and_the_economics_of_statecraft_1102364.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Sempa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Trump administration's reciprocal tariffs have engendered stock markets to panic and U.S. trading partners and Trump's domestic political opponents to complain about harmful]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Secretary Hegseth and the Gathering Storm]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2025/03/08/secretary_hegseth_and_the_gathering_storm_1096384.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Sempa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In his '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'iron curtain'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' speech delivered in early 1946, Winston Churchill reflected on the Second World War, which had ended just six months earlier.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[National Review Sides With the War Party Again]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/national-review-sides-with-the-war-party-again/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Sempa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Never Trumpers want war while Trump seeks peace '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' even if the deals are imperfect.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hegseth Will Implement the Trump Doctrine]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2025/01/10/hegseth_will_implement_the_trump_doctrine_1083952.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Sempa</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Rewrite History To Praise Jimmy Carter]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2025/01/03/democrats_rewrite_history_to_praise_jimmy_carter_1082272.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Sempa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tom Donilon, President Barack Obama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s national security adviser from 2010 to 2013, attempts to rewrite history on the Foreign Affairs website to praise Jimmy Carter as a great foreign policy president.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Saving Murderers and Killing Babies]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/saving-murderers-and-killing-babies/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Sempa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Progressives extend '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'mercy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' to heinous killers, but not innocent babies.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump, U.S. Must Approach Syria With a Tragic Mind]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/approach-syria-with-a-tragic-mind/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Sempa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The US should approach events in Syria in full awareness of the limitations of American power and the potential unintended consequences of hubris.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Foreign Affairs' Lends a Hand to Harris Campaign]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2024/11/04/foreign_affairs_lends_a_hand_to_the_harris_campaign_1069624.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Sempa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[An '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'America First'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' foreign policy does not go over well at the Council of Foreign Relations, the publisher of the journal Foreign Affairs whose website features a brief essay adapted from a speech delivered in Kyiv, Ukraine, by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin III.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Washington's Farewell Address Still Resonates]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2024/10/12/why_washingtons_farewell_address_still_resonates_1064780.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Sempa</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' wrote'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Henry '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Lighthorse Harry'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Lee of the nation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s first president George Washington. After successfully commanding the colonial and later the American armed forces in the War of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Joe Biden's Dangerous World]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2024/04/13/joe_bidens_dangerous_world_1024882.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Sempa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the past three years, the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, Russia invaded Ukraine, Hamas invaded Israel, China increased its pressure on Taiwan, the China-Russian partnership solidified, Houthi terrorists wreaked havoc on Red Sea shipping, Iran moved closer to obtaining a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gospels of Foreign Policy Realism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2024/03/16/gospels_of_foreign_policy_realism_1018803.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Sempa</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Slouching Towards World War III]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Francis Sempa</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The United States, led by President Joe Biden (who a few weeks ago recalled recently speaking to two foreign leaders who had been dead for many years and confusing the names of the current Egyptian and Mexican presidents), Secretary of State Antony Blinken, National Security Adviser Jake...]]></description>
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