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	<title>PoliticianScandal.com &#187; Afghanistan</title>
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		<title>Legitimacy Matters</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boourns104</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that in the weeks since Gen. McChrystal’s report was leaked, that the Afghanistan discussion has been limited by a false binary: Is it better to send more troops to protect civilians or is it better to draw down troops and increase air strikes on Al Qaeda targets? Since the success of a greater troop commitment ultimately relies on the legitimacy of the Afghan government, a third and probably far better option is to first establish how legitimate that government can possibly be.[...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obligatory Nobel Post</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boourns104</dc:creator>
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It appears that, as a writer for the interwebs, it is incumbent upon me to comment on President Obama’s Nobel Prize. Everyone, it seems, is ambivalent about his receiving the prize, not least Obama himself. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan Memo</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>boourns104</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. policy in Afghanistan increasingly reminds me of the episode of The Twilight Zone in which a little girl inadvertently slips though her bedroom wall and into a dimension not unlike an M.C. Escher drawing.]]></description>
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