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	<title>The Reality-Based Community &#187; Afghanistan</title>
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	<description>Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.</description>
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		<title>RBC&#8211;Bloggingheads edition</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/12/international-affairs/afghanistan/rbc-bloggingheads-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/12/international-affairs/afghanistan/rbc-bloggingheads-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harold Pollack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Affordable Care Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drug Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HIV/AIDS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Kleiman and I go Bloggingheads on drugs and HIV in the Russian Federation, poppy eradication in Afghanistan, Mexican drug violence, dealing with drug users and drug sellers in United States.]]></description>
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		<title>Is Pakistan an Ally or an Enemy?  How about &#8220;neither&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/05/international-affairs/is-pakistan-an-ally-or-an-enemy-how-about-neither/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/05/international-affairs/is-pakistan-an-ally-or-an-enemy-how-about-neither/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 02:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Daniel Larison objects to attacks on Pakistan&#8217;s loyalty as an ally, noting (correctly) that allies don&#8217;t always agree.  Jeffrey Goldberg also sticks up for Pakistan as an ally. (h/t Sullivan) I think we&#8217;re getting to the point where these terms don&#8217;t make much sense as regards Pakistan.  There are countries and non-state actors out there that [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Afghan poppies flower again for pain?</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/04/international-affairs/afghanistan/afghan-poppies-flower-again-for-pain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/04/international-affairs/afghanistan/afghan-poppies-flower-again-for-pain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Wimberley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drug Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health and Medicine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A public health expert raises again the plan to divert Afghan opium into worlwide pain relief.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Minimizing collateral damage</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/02/international-affairs/afghanistan/minimizing-collateral-damage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/02/international-affairs/afghanistan/minimizing-collateral-damage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 05:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Kleiman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[NATO forces in Afghanistan are doing it, and human-rights groups have noticed.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>St. Stephen&#8217;s Day Reflections on War</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/12/international-affairs/afghanistan/st-stephens-day-reflections-on-war/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/12/international-affairs/afghanistan/st-stephens-day-reflections-on-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Dec 2010 16:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal moment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our home is near a community living center for elderly veterans, so we went there for Christmas services yesterday morning. My family and I were almost the only people not using wheelchairs. To sing &#8220;Silent Night&#8221; with so many people in the December of their lives had a transcendant sweetness, and also inspired some reflection [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Cost-Benefit Analysis of Compassion</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/08/international-affairs/afghanistan/the-cost-benefit-analysis-of-compassion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/08/international-affairs/afghanistan/the-cost-benefit-analysis-of-compassion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moral philosophy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you believe than US foreign policy should serve moral and humanitarian goals, then Afghanistan might be the worst place to start.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>Drug enforcement and the Afghan War</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/07/international-affairs/afghanistan/drug-enforcement-and-the-afghan-war/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/07/international-affairs/afghanistan/drug-enforcement-and-the-afghan-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 04:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Kleiman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drug Policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From our op-ed in Friday's Financial Times: "There simply are not many feasible drug-control activities in Afghanistan that do more good than harm. This is a case where less really is more: since the natural tendency of counterdrug efforts is to help our enemies, we should pursue those efforts as little as possible. As a first step in breaking the Taliban’s momentum, we might stop filling its coffers."]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan drug policy event at USIP</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/07/international-affairs/afghanistan/afghanistan-drug-policy-event-at-usip/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/07/international-affairs/afghanistan/afghanistan-drug-policy-event-at-usip/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 05:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Kleiman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drug Policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The video is up.]]></description>
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		<title>Coming attractions</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/06/international-affairs/afghanistan/coming-attractions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/06/international-affairs/afghanistan/coming-attractions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Kleiman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drug Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism and its control]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Drugs and counterinsurgency in Afghanistan:  U.S. Institute of Peace, 10am this coming Tuesday, July 6.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Croesus curse hits Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/06/international-affairs/afghanistan/the-croesus-curse-hits-afghanistan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/06/international-affairs/afghanistan/the-croesus-curse-hits-afghanistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Kleiman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It's hard to imagine anything worse that could happen in Afghanistan than the discovery of mineral wealth.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Has Obama just paid Lieberman&#8217;s price?</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/11/international-affairs/afghanistan/has-obama-just-paid-liebermans-price/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/11/international-affairs/afghanistan/has-obama-just-paid-liebermans-price/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Sabl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lying in politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A conspiracy theory, a conjecture, call it what you will--but isn't it possible that Lieberman's price for his health-care vote is more troops for Afghanistan?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bringing down the curtain on the Afghan election farce</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/11/international-affairs/afghanistan/bringing-down-the-curtain-on-the-afghan-election-farce/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/11/international-affairs/afghanistan/bringing-down-the-curtain-on-the-afghan-election-farce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Kleiman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Now what?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>No jewels, no crowns.</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/10/international-affairs/afghanistan/no-jewels-no-crowns/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/10/international-affairs/afghanistan/no-jewels-no-crowns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Sabl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[James Vega's urgent case for rejecting counterinsurgency in Afghanistan—and the imperial mission that the counterinsurgency model, surprisingly, requires.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hamid van Thieu?</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/10/international-affairs/afghanistan/hamid-van-thieu/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/10/international-affairs/afghanistan/hamid-van-thieu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Kleiman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We seem to be committed to a counterinsurgency campaign on behalf of a government than can't govern.  I've seen this movie before, and didn't like the ending.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why growing opium in Afghanistan will not help treat pain in Africa</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/09/international-affairs/afghanistan/why-growing-opium-in-afghanistan-will-not-help-treat-pain-in-africa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/09/international-affairs/afghanistan/why-growing-opium-in-afghanistan-will-not-help-treat-pain-in-africa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Kleiman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drug Policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[James Wimberley&#8217;s plea to do something about the under-treatment of pain in Africa (and other parts of the developing world) addresses a problem that has received less attention than it deserves, partly because pain, unlike death, isn&#8217;t very easy to count.   His first-choice solution is to buy opium in Afghanistan to make into opiates [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Idols of the tribes</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/09/international-affairs/afghanistan/idols-of-the-tribes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/09/international-affairs/afghanistan/idols-of-the-tribes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Wimberley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drug Policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sourcing morphine for the poor from Afghan opium: I retract some intemperate language but not the idea.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Angels on horseback</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/08/international-affairs/afghanistan/angels-on-horseback/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/08/international-affairs/afghanistan/angels-on-horseback/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Wimberley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drug Policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Afghan opium: (repeats wearily), buy the stuff.
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Careful what you wish for</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/08/international-affairs/afghanistan/careful-what-you-wish-for/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/08/international-affairs/afghanistan/careful-what-you-wish-for/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Kleiman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Crop substitution may or may not be a better way of shrinking the poppy crop than crop eradication; they're likely to be about equally unsuccessful.  But in this  case, failure is  feature, not a bug:  smaller crops mean higher prices and higher total illicit revenues.
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		<title>Solving the poverty problem in Afghanistan by handing out money</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/08/international-affairs/afghanistan/solving-the-poverty-problem-in-afghanistan-by-handing-out-money/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/08/international-affairs/afghanistan/solving-the-poverty-problem-in-afghanistan-by-handing-out-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For less than 10% of the military budget for Afghanistan, we could eliminate rural poverty there.
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>This graphic kills people</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/07/international-affairs/afghanistan/this-graphic-kills-people/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/07/international-affairs/afghanistan/this-graphic-kills-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Kleiman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Providing Afghanistan and other developing countries with money to pay the police enough to keep them honest doesn't count as "development assistance."
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		<title>Nagging Questions about Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/07/international-affairs/afghanistan/nagging-questions-about-afghanistan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/07/international-affairs/afghanistan/nagging-questions-about-afghanistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Quincy Adams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An NBC News report last week painted a picture of military futility in Afghanistan.  The more recent large operation in Helmand has a more cogent rationale, but it to suffers from viewing the Afghanistan fight as a US operation.  Robert McNamara's death reminds us that we will lose if we view it as our fight rather than as the fight of local (not initially national) partners who we contrive to support.
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		<title>Uh-oh</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/05/watching-conservatives/uh-oh-3/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/05/watching-conservatives/uh-oh-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 06:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Watching Conservatives]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The headline of today&#8217;s LA Times column, by Max Boot: Obama&#8217;s right on target in Afghanistan The president has assembled an impressive military-diplomatic team and strategy that inspires confidence. Somehow, this doesn&#8217;t make me feel any better.]]></description>
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		<title>Give them some money</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/03/international-affairs/afghanistan/give-them-some-money/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/03/international-affairs/afghanistan/give-them-some-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Wimberley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drug Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism and its control]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Buy the Afghan opium harvest.
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		<title>Not cricket</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/03/international-affairs/afghanistan/not-cricket/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/03/international-affairs/afghanistan/not-cricket/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Wimberley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Why did terrorists in Pakistan attack Sri Lankan cricketers?
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		<title>The Viagra Maneuver</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2008/12/international-affairs/afghanistan/the-viagra-maneuver/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2008/12/international-affairs/afghanistan/the-viagra-maneuver/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 02:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Kleiman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So we're bribing Afghan sheikhs with Viagra.  Fine.  But why blab to the press about it?
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		<title>Six feet of cyberspace</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2008/11/international-affairs/afghanistan/six-feet-of-cyberspace/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2008/11/international-affairs/afghanistan/six-feet-of-cyberspace/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Wimberley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Brits provide their war dead with decent cybermemorials, why not the Pentagon?
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		<title>Nul points</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2008/10/international-affairs/afghanistan/nul-points/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2008/10/international-affairs/afghanistan/nul-points/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:39:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Wimberley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Torture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[America's moral standing is lower than Afghanistan's, according to the British Army.
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