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							<title><![CDATA[Honor Our Veterans With a Better Foreign Policy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/11/11/honor_our_veterans_with_a_better_foreign_policy_138608.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>William Ruger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After the attacks of September 11, 2001, millions of Americans were deployed overseas to combat zones in nearly a dozen countries. They joined the honored ranks of millions of other American veterans alive today who fought bravely in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, not to mention those...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Public Realism on Afghanistan]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/10/08/public_realism_on_afghanistan_138280.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Ruger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sunday was the 17th anniversary of the start of the longest war in American history: the Afghanistan War. When Operation Enduring Freedom kicked off on Oct. 7, 2001, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, few would have thought we&rsquo;d still be there fighting the Taliban nearly two decades...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump, Take Note: Public Wants Rational Steps at Summit]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/06/11/trump_take_note_public_wants_rational_steps_at_summit_137251.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Ruger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tonight&rsquo;s summit in Singapore between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, the supreme leader of North Korea, will be reality TV meets international politics with high stakes. It could usher in a process for the formal end to the Korean War and a resolution of the nuclear crisis between...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[To Defend America, Don't Overreach]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/opinion/iraq-war-failed.html?rref=collection%2Fissuecollection%2Ftodays-new-york-times</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Ruger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Iraq war began 15 years ago. Realism demands that we remember how badly it failed.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[On Veterans Day, Ask 'Why?']]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/11/10/on_veterans_day_ask_why_135508.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>William Ruger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Going to war is the most important decision a country makes. Families will be separated, limbs will be lost, and young people will die. Even when hostilities are fought abroad, war brings home significant social and political challenges. 
This Veterans Day, we reflect upon the sacrifice...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Congress, WH Deal Signals New Budget Irresponsibility]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/10/27/we-cant-retreat-defense-budget-caps-tom-coburn-william-ruger-column/74678632/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>William Ruger</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What was scheduled to be partisan brinksmanship on the federal budget is now on the verge of being an exercise in bipartisan fiscal irresponsibility.President Obama had drawn a red line by vetoing the recently passed defense authorization act while clearly stating that he wouldn&rsquo;t...]]></description>
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