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	<title>The Reality-Based Community &#187; Defense and national security</title>
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	<description>Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.</description>
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		<title>Standoff weaponry</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2012/02/uncategorized/standoff-weaponry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime Control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Defense and national security]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Woolgathering]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Drum notes that 65% of people in a WaPo poll approve of drone attacks on &#8220;suspected terrorists&#8221;, even on American citizens.  The question mixes up some important issues, and Kevin dissects out whether a death penalty, no matter how delivered, for being suspected is OK.  But a lot of people are also very antsy [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mitt Romney Likes to Play with Toy Soldiers and Sailors</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2012/01/campaigns/campaign-2012/mitt-romney-likes-to-play-with-toy-soldiers-and-sailors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2012/01/campaigns/campaign-2012/mitt-romney-likes-to-play-with-toy-soldiers-and-sailors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Campaign 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Defense and national security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So Mitt Romney complains that the US Navy has fewer ships than it did in 1917 &#8212; true, but utterly irrelevant and deceptive. Did you know that we have a weaker cavalry than we did in 1917, too?  I&#8217;m shocked.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8220;Reactive&#8221; versus &#8220;Strategic&#8221;?  Please.</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/03/defense-and-national-security/reactive-versus-strategic-please/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/03/defense-and-national-security/reactive-versus-strategic-please/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 04:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Defense and national security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Foreign policy analysis will get a lot better when we stop using flatulent phrases like "strategic", "reactive," "leadership" or "realistic."]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Libyan Insurgency Would Not Look Like Iraq</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/03/international-affairs/middle-east-politics/a-libyan-insurgency-would-not-look-like-iraq/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/03/international-affairs/middle-east-politics/a-libyan-insurgency-would-not-look-like-iraq/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Defense and national security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Even if Libya turns into a quagmire, here are three reasons why a Qaddafist insurgency would pale in comparison to Iraq.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Memorandum to Secretary Rumsfeld</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/03/uncategorized/memorandum-to-secretary-rumsfeld/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/03/uncategorized/memorandum-to-secretary-rumsfeld/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Defense and national security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disasters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lying in politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve lost Max Boot, you&#8217;ve lost everybody.  Now please retreat back into your money or your vast carelessness, or whatever keeps you together, and let other people clean up the mess that you&#8217;ve made&#8230;.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>The double whammy</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/11/economics/the-double-whammy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/11/economics/the-double-whammy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Wimberley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservatism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Defense and national security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial crises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican Party]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The double legacyof Bush Republicanism ain hastening American decline.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8220;The kill team&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/09/crime-control/the-kill-team/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/09/crime-control/the-kill-team/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 16:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Kleiman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime Control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Defense and national security]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The WaPo has a chilling story from Afghanistan about a platoon that decided to engage in a little bit of recreational murder and trophy-hunting.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>George F. Will Cuts and Runs</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/08/terrorism-and-its-control/george-f-will-cuts-and-runs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/08/terrorism-and-its-control/george-f-will-cuts-and-runs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Defense and national security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Permanent campaign]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism and its control]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[George Will is going to call for a ground troop pullout from Afghanistan.  Is he right?
]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Foreign Policy is not Pretty: India-Pakistan Edition</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/06/terrorism-and-its-control/foreign-policy-is-not-pretty-india-pakistan-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/06/terrorism-and-its-control/foreign-policy-is-not-pretty-india-pakistan-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 06:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Defense and national security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism and its control]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pakistan diverted American counter-terrorism assistance to buy weapons to use against India.  The Bush Administration knew about it, and did nothing.  And that might have been the right course.
]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Deaf, dumb and blind spooks</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/05/defense-and-national-security/deaf-dumb-and-blind-spooks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/05/defense-and-national-security/deaf-dumb-and-blind-spooks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 02:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Defense and national security]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Buried in this story is a paragraph that made me blink: The CIA recently reported that a small fraction of its overall workforce &#8212; about 13 percent &#8212; is fluent in a second language. Among officers of the agency&#8217;s National Clandestine Service, to which most foreign-deployed officers are assigned, the figure is about 30 percent. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>What to do with the CIA</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/04/torture/what-to-do-with-the-cia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/04/torture/what-to-do-with-the-cia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Quincy Adams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Defense and national security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Torture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I think Amy Zegart goes beyond the evidence about the current value of the CIA, even though I would not favor abolishing it per se.  I would favor making it prove the value of its functions in the context of national security resource allocation, and let certain functions wither away if they cannot be demonstrated to be valuable.  I would also create multiple competing centers within the intelligence community, opening up the system to innovation.
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Kill the CIA</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/04/defense-and-national-security/dont-kill-the-cia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/04/defense-and-national-security/dont-kill-the-cia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Zegart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Defense and national security]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It was only a matter of time before the torture debate turned on the CIA. Matthew Yglesias has done it, suggesting that we "consider" abolishing the agency. This would be a great idea if it weren't completely wrong.
]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Resist Neatness in Dividing up the World</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/04/defense-and-national-security/resist-neatness-in-dividing-up-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/04/defense-and-national-security/resist-neatness-in-dividing-up-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Quincy Adams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Defense and national security]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bureaucratic efficiency is not always a good thing.  The National Security Advisor's push to align regional dividing lines throughout the national security agencies is probably a mistake.  Jim Jones should take pointers from McGeorge Bundy's time as National Security Advisor.
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Who Cares What the CIA Thinks?</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/04/terrorism-and-its-control/who-cares-what-the-cia-thinks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/04/terrorism-and-its-control/who-cares-what-the-cia-thinks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Defense and national security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism and its control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Torture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Instead of complaining about the release of the torture memos, the CIA ought to work on being a decent intelligence service.
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Calling General Scowcroft</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/04/defense-and-national-security/calling-general-scowcroft/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/04/defense-and-national-security/calling-general-scowcroft/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Defense and national security]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On defense policy, it's time for Brent Scowcroft to slap down the nutcases.
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>More tooth, less pork</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/04/defense-and-national-security/more-tooth-less-pork/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/04/defense-and-national-security/more-tooth-less-pork/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Kleiman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Defense and national security]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Gates defense budget looks pretty good.
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