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<title><![CDATA[Richard Sokolsky - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/33865.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Richard Sokolsky]]></description><category domain="33865">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Biden Will End the Sugar High for Israel and Saudi Arabia]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/02/22/how-biden-will-end-the-trump-sugar-high-for-israel-and-saudi-arabia-470911</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Sokolsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After years of getting everything they wanted, the Middle East's biggest egos will have to learn to do with less as the new president focuses on crises at home.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Middle East Just Doesn't Matter as Much Any Longer]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/09/03/the-middle-east-just-doesnt-matter-as-much-any-longer-407820</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Sokolsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The United States has much bigger problems to worry about and limited resources to fix them.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pompeo's Ideological, Partisan Human Rights Commission]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/22/opinions/pompeo-commission-on-unalienable-rights-miller-sokolsky/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Sokolsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Aaron David Miller and Richard Sokolsky write that nowhere were Pompeo's political ambitions and ideological biases more on display than last year in the creation of his Commission on Unalienable Rights.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Where Trump's Right--Syria's Not a Vital U.S. Interest]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/10/18/trump-syria-turkey-kurds-news-analysis-229858</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 20 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Sokolsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[His incompetent and hasty withdrawal is shameful and harms American interests. But it lays bare some uncomfortable truths.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Trump Can Escape His Iran Jam]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/24/donald-trump-iran-saudi-arabia-228170</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Sokolsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mike Pompeo may think going to war with Iran over Saudi Arabia makes sense. We don't.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Wanted: a Trump Policy for Iran]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/07/opinions/miller-sokolsky-a-year-after-trump-left-the-iran-deal-little-has-improved/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Sokolsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump exited the Iran nuclear dear a year ago. Little has improved in US-Iran relations since then, Aaron David Miller and Richard Sokolsky say.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mike Pompeo Is Not Making Diplomacy Great Again]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/03/27/mike-pompeo-is-not-making-diplomacy-great-again-226237</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Sokolsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One year into the job, the secretary of State is good at flattering President Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and little else.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Time to Let Go of America's 18-Year Afghan War]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/05/opinions/us-should-leave-afghanistan-miller-simon-sokolsky/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Sokolsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Reports that US and Taliban negotiators have reached a tentative framework for withdrawing American forces from Afghanistan have set the foreign policy establishment's hair on fire. A former US ambassador described the putative deal with the Taliban as a "surrender."]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The U.S.-Saudi Relationship Is Out of Control]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/trump-fault-jamal-khashoggis-disappearance/572797/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Sokolsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[But even Jamal Khashoggi'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s disappearance may not force the Trump administration to recognize that fact.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[North, South Take Important Steps to Demilitarize Korea]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2018/09/19/north_and_south_korea_take_important_steps_to_demilitarize_the_korean_peninsula_112880.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Sokolsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At yesterday'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s summit meeting in Pyongyang between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, the defense ministers of the two countries signed an important agreement to reduce military tensions along the two sides'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' heavily militarized border.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump Put Himself First, America Last]]></title>
							<link>http://time.com/5340877/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-summit/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Sokolsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump had three options regarding his upcoming summit with Vladimir Putin: cancel, confront or cave. He chose the last option.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why the U.S.-North Korea Summit Might Succeed]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/06/08/donald-trump-kim-jong-un-us-north-korea-summit-singapore-column/677659002/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Sokolsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump and Kim have lowered their expectations for the U.S.-North Korea summit in Singapore. The goal is not zero nukes but peace on the Korean Peninsula.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump-Pompeo Iran Plan Is Bluster and Fantasy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/05/22/donald-trump-mike-pompeo-unworkable-iran-plan-column/630969002/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Sokolsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Pompeo's cheap talk and regime change hints were straight from the Trump playbook. Iran will almost certainly reject all demands, so what's Plan C?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Syria Strike Was Best Choice Amid Bad Options]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/04/14/syria-attack-war-donald-trump-5-takeaways-chemical-weapons-column/517379002/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Sokolsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Friday night'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' U.S., British and French missile strikes'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' against three sites associated with Syrian chemical weapons will not change the battlefield balance in Syria, bring us closer to ending Syria'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s violence, or perhaps even deter Bashar Assad over time from using chemical...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Has $49 Billion in Foreign Military Aid Bought Us? Not Much]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/what-has-49-billion-in-foreign-military-aid-bought-us-not-much/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Sokolsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Without clear purpose and oversight, it's become just another expensive welfare program.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Goals for Decertifying Iran Deal Remain a Mystery]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/13/opinions/trump-iran-plan-a-mystery-miller-sokolsky-opinion/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Sokolsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Although the President's objective was not clear, Aaron David Miller and Richard Sokolsky write that he might be hoping to provoke Iran into walking away from the accord.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[On North Korea, Be Careful What You Wish For]]></title>
							<link>http://www.38north.org/2017/08/rsokolskyamiller080217/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Sokolsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is the Trump administration seriously contemplating changing the regime in North Korea? Frankly, the signals are mixed. Ten days ago, at the Aspen Security Forum, CIA Director Mike Pompeo intimated as much, saying that he and other senior officials were ordered by President Trump to find...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Four Reasons Trump Shouldn't Scrap Iran Deal]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/07/18/4-reasons-trump-shouldnt-scrap-iran-nuclear-deal-goad-iran-pull-out/488285001/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Sokolsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump has certified for the second time that Iran is in compliance with the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 2015 nuclear accord'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' that limits its nuclear program.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' But the leaks and background briefings surrounding his statement, followed by'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' new sanctions'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' announced Tuesday, sent unmistakable signals:'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[12 Pieces of Advice for Rex Tillerson]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/12/opinions/advice-for-next-secretary-of-state-miller-sokolsky/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Richard Sokolsky</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Aaron Miller and Richard Sokolsky offer Rex Tillerson, Donald Trump's nominee to be the next secretary of state, advice for making the role a success.]]></description>
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