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		<title>Debating &#8220;expeditionary economics&#8221; with Carl Schramm and Mike Meese on &#8220;Ideas in Action&#8221;</title>
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		<title>The Republican Fight Over Afghanistan</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-07-17/the-war-over-the-war-among-republicans/2/ The Republican Fight Over Afghanistan by Ann Marlowe July 17, 2010 &#124; 7:33pm BS Top &#8211; Marlowe Afghanistan US soldiers walk to board a helicopter at an airfield in Kandahar on May 14, 2010. Credit: Tauseef Mustafa / Getty Images As Hillary Clinton heads to Kabul for an international conference on security, a civil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ann Marlowe on effect of July 2011 deadline on Afghan war</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 06:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>How to Win in Afghanistan: The Karzais Must Go</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 06:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama said Wednesday that he didn&#8217;t fire Gen. Stanley McChrystal over policy disagreements. Too bad. Almost every metric measuring military progress in Afghanistan has gone downhill since McChrystal took command a year ago, as an April Pentagon report detailed. More recently, a UN report revealed that incidents involving improvised-explosive devices &#8212; the main killer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alchemy in Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bidding for the rights to explore more than $1 trillion of mineral reserves could begin this year. Ann Marlowe explains why the political truth is much more sordid than easy profits. Something is rotten in Afghanistan, and unfortunately it’s us. Today’s announcement of “nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan” is a symptom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recovering a Province: the rise and fall of Khost</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 06:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Khost Province, Afghanistan &#8220;Few people in Khost support the government because the government are thieves!” Tall, gaunt Haji Doulat, 65, was fighting a headache and perhaps depression as he sat with the men of his family in his shabby, red-carpeted mejlis. Doulat lives with his brother, wife, sons, and many nieces and nephews in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strategy vs. Tactics in Afghanistan Good counterinsurgency can&#8217;t make up for the lack of a political plan.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. Karzai and the American commander are both following what Col. Gian Gentile, head of military history at West Point, has called "a strategy of tactics"—by which he means ground-level measures pursued on an ad hoc basis without an overall objective.]]></description>
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		<title>Dying for the Karzai Cartel</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 07:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://article.nationalreview.com/434392/dying-for-the-karzai-cartel/ann-marlowe Our strategy and tactics in Afghanistan, both of which make sense in theory, no longer apply. The classic defense of our involvement in Afghanistan is that we need to make sure that Afghanistan never again becomes a sanctuary for al-Qaeda or other enemies of the United States. Ungoverned spaces attract terrorists, especially when they’re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Karzai&#8217;s Bad Boy Brother Selling Material to Kill U.S. Troops</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 22:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/05/13/ann-marlowe-afghanistan-petraeus-aka-wali-karzai-president-brother-ied-ammonium/ Propping up Afghan evildoers isn’t only a disgrace to American values– it’s a recipe for defeat in counterinsurgency. Qalat, Zabul Province, Afghanistan On May 7, General David Petraeus held a meeting with the owner of a Kandahar company that legally sells ammonium nitrate. This fertilizer is a key ingredient of home made explosives (HME) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shura To Fail?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 22:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/shura-fail Shura to Fail? Why U.S. officials taking tea with local Afghan elders seem to be wasting their time. Shamalzai District, Zabul Province, Afghanistan—The village of Sher Khan Khel sits at 7,221 feet, a few miles from where Zabul Province borders Pakistan. Stone and mudbrick houses dot the barren slopes (there is little that will [...]]]></description>
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