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		<title>Afghan Noir: review of Michael Hastings&#8217; &#8220;The Operators&#8221; in The Daily</title>
		<link>http://www.annrachelmarlowe.com/2012/01/09/afghan-noir-review-of-michael-hastings-the-operators-in-the-daily/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/01/08/010812-opinions-books-hastings-marlowe-1-3/ Opinion: Afghan noir Atmospherics stand in for solid reporting on America’s effort to stop the insurgency By Ann Marlowe Sunday, January 8, 2012 “The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America’s War in Afghanistan” by Michael Hastings Blue Rider Press, $14.99 Selfishly, I wish “The Operators” were a better book. Though we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama’s Misplaced Afghan Triumphalism (orig. pub. in Daily Beast, 6/23/11)</title>
		<link>http://www.annrachelmarlowe.com/2011/06/23/obama%e2%80%99s-misplaced-afghan-triumphalism-orig-pub-in-daily-beast-62311/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/06/23/afghanistan-troop-withdrawal-obama-speech-s-misplaced-triumphalism.html Obama’s Misplaced Afghan Triumphalism Announcing the Afghan troop drawdown was more or less a concession of defeat, but you’d never know it from Obama’s speech, which was all victorious cadences—and illogical statements. by Ann Marlowe &#124; June 23, 2011 1:25 AM EDT If there is anyone who could make the excellent idea of reversing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>End The Costly War in Afghanistan (orig. pub. in The Daily Beast 6/11/2011)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 10, 2011 &#124; 9:16pm A new Senate report questions the results of the nearly $19 billion spent in aid to Afghanistan. Ann Marlowe argues that it’s time we stopped throwing money away. At least one committee in Congress is almost ready to question the mythology of the Afghan war—or at least to put into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Heritage in Ruins (pub. in The New York Times, 6/2/11)</title>
		<link>http://www.annrachelmarlowe.com/2011/06/05/a-heritage-in-ruins-pub-in-the-new-york-times-6211/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 22:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/03/opinion/03Marlowe.html?_r=2&#038;hp June 2, 2011 A Heritage in Ruins By ANN MARLOWE Lashkar Gah, AfghanistanWITHIN a 40-minute drive of this city stands the 11th-century Bost Arch. A former gateway to Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand Province, the arch is today a national historic site; it even appears on the 100-afghani note. The arch withstood centuries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan: America&#8217;s War of Perception (from Policy Review)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 22:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the days before he was forced into retirement by scandal, General Stanley McChrystal was fond of referring to the Afghan theater he commanded as a “war of perceptions.” In February he spoke to the Washington Post: “This is all a war of perceptions,” McChrystal said on the eve of the Marja offensive. “This is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arab Spring’s Lessons for Afghanistan (orig. pub. NY Post, 5/19/2011)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 12:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/arab_spring_lessons_for_stan_qoVXqFqaBzhdTYCLzhw4ZN Posted: 11:26 PM, May 18, 2011 KABUL President Obama will speak today on new US policy toward the Muslim world in the wake of the Arab Spring. Let&#8217;s hope our nation&#8217;s Afghan strategists also note the big lesson of the Arab revolts &#8212; namely, that centralizing and concentrating power in undeveloped states increases their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-social Networking: can sexual thugs be democrats?</title>
		<link>http://www.annrachelmarlowe.com/2011/02/28/anti-social-networking-can-sexual-thugs-be-democrats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 03:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://bit.ly/eXfrYh http://www.thedaily.com/page/2011/02/28/022811-opinions-oped-social-media-marlowe-1-3/ New media leave brutish, sexist values untouched in Mideast The power of social media like Facebook and Twitter has been part of the giddy, feel-good narrative of the Arab uprisings. And we Americans have a tendency to think that as our technologies and pastimes spread, so will our values. But it’s equally true [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A fatal supermarket bombing is symbolic of the war in Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 20:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[from The Daily, the tablet-based original news publication. http://bit.ly/e7Dsov What&#8217;s in store Sunday, February 20, 2011 Yet another all-too-ordinary Afghan tragedy: On Jan. 28, the Finest supermarket on 15th Street in Wazir Akbar Khan, a suburb of Kabul, was destroyed by a Taliban assault culminating in a suicide bombing. The target, the Taliban claimed, was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supply-Side Foreign Policy What would Charles Wolf Jr. do in Afghanistan?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 04:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/supply-side-foreign-policy_541156.html 1:15 PM, Feb 7, 2011 • By ANN MARLOWE Here’s an idea: Let’s try reducing the supply of insurgency in Afghanistan rather than reducing the demand for it. This notion—potentially as important an insight as the Laffer curve—comes from a 41-year-old book by a retired RAND Corporation scholar now entering his ninth decade, Charles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An interview with Kandahar&#8217;s Mayor, Ghulum Hamidi</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 22:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.tnr.com/print/blog/foreign-policy/80677/dispatch-the-transformation-kandahar%E2%80%94and-its-insurgency DISPATCH: The Mysterious Evolution of Kandahar—And Its Insurgency * Ann Marlowe * December 31, 2010 &#124; 1:39 pm “The Taliban have already taken over in Kandahar! Come out onto the streets and see. There is no government there!” Or so Rangina Hamidi, the American-educated daughter of Kandahar’s mayor, Ghulum Hamidi, warned me in Kabul [...]]]></description>
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