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	<title>Ann Marlowe</title>
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		<title>Why Elite Women Hate Palin</title>
		<link>http://www.annrachelmarlowe.com/2008/10/07/why-elite-women-hate-palin/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[ www.forbes.com/opinions/2008/10/06/sarah-palin-elite-oped-cx_am_1007marlowe.html
&#8220;If Sarah Palin is qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency, so am I!&#8221;
These words spoken by my friend Janet were true. But Janet hasn&#8217;t put herself in Palin&#8217;s position by running for office. She&#8217;s made films and renovated houses, cushioned by inherited money. And since she doesn&#8217;t have any kids, it&#8217;s hard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cellist of Baghdad (Forbes.com, 9/11/2008)</title>
		<link>http://www.annrachelmarlowe.com/2008/09/11/the-cellist-of-baghdad-forbescom-9112008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Our orchestra is a tool for refining the culture. Classical music is not merely an entertainment opportunity. It can teach how to manage disagreements, how a civilized person functions in life.&#8221;
So far Karim Wasfi, the musical director and co-conductor of the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra (INSO), sounds like many other earnest spokesmen for classical music [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan Doesn&#8217;t Need a Surge</title>
		<link>http://www.annrachelmarlowe.com/2008/07/22/afghanistan-doesnt-need-a-surge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121668659664272147.html
Afghanistan needs many things, but two more brigades of U.S. troops are not among them.
Barack Obama said: &#8220;We need more troops, more helicopters, better intelligence-gathering and more nonmilitary assistance to accomplish the mission there.&#8221; Mr. Obama should have supported the surge in Iraq, but that doesn&#8217;t mean that advocating one in Afghanistan makes sense.
Afghanistan&#8217;s problems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Madrassas Built With Your Taxes</title>
		<link>http://www.annrachelmarlowe.com/2008/07/14/madrassas-built-with-your-taxes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE US Army&#8217;s combina tion of development with counterinsurgency in Af ghanistan is admirable in all but one regard: We&#8217;re building mosques and madrassas, too.
When it comes to building roads, bridges, dams, schools and clinics in the 14 eastern Afghan provinces under de facto US Army protection, our military has done far more than any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;It&#8217;s Not Rocket Science&#8221;: An American commander explains why Afghanistan is winnable</title>
		<link>http://www.annrachelmarlowe.com/2008/07/10/its-not-rocket-science-an-american-commander-explains-why-afghanistan-is-winnable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The British press seems to begin with the presumption that the Afghanistan war is a lost cause – partly for understandable historical reasons. Americans – or at least the Americans you encounter in Afghanistan – tend to be more optimistic. Certainly US Navy Commander Dave Adams, 41, exuded confidence when he told me about his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Best Books on Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.annrachelmarlowe.com/2008/07/05/five-best-books-on-afghanistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. Heroes of the Age
By David B. Edwards
University of California, 1996
David B. Edwards&#8217;s thesis in &#8220;Heroes of the Age&#8221; is that Afghanistan&#8217;s problems come from &#8220;the moral incoherence&#8221; of the country itself. Afghans share a myth of the nation, but not an idea of the state, Edwards argues. The principles of Islam, honor and state [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tillion&#8217;s Cousins</title>
		<link>http://www.annrachelmarlowe.com/2008/06/30/tillions-cousins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Weekly Standard
Tillion&#8217;s Cousins
A classic account of women in the Mediterranean world.
by Ann Marlowe
06/30/2008, Volume 013, Issue 40
In 1966 Germaine Tillion, a 59-year-old French structural anthropologist, published a slim volume entitled Le harem et les cousins (English title: The Republic of Cousins). This book, and Tillion herself, are largely unknown in the United States outside [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In War Too, Personnel is Policy</title>
		<link>http://www.annrachelmarlowe.com/2008/06/14/in-war-too-personnel-is-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OPINION
online.wsj.com/article/SB121340075723773801.html?mod=djemEditorialPage
In War Too, Personnel Is Policy
By ANN MARLOWE
June 14, 2008
As it becomes clear that the surge in Iraq is working – and with the Marines in southern Afghanistan succeeding where the British spent two years in a stalemate – we should beware of the temptation to congratulate ourselves on getting counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine right. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking the Handoff</title>
		<link>http://www.annrachelmarlowe.com/2008/06/08/taking-the-handoff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TAKING THE HANDOFF
By ANN MARLOWE
Arafat, 29, is a patrolman in charge of the checkpoint at Shembawat, a village in southeastern Afghanistan. A lanky, tousle-haired father of four earning about $100 a month, Arafat wears an Afghan National Police uniform with a cheap Chinese thermal vest and white running shoes. He doesn&#8217;t stand up straight, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Counterinsurgency Grows in Khost</title>
		<link>http://www.annrachelmarlowe.com/2008/05/12/a-counterinsurgency-grows-in-khost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 22:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ An unheralded U.S. success in Afghanistan.
by Ann Marlowe
05/19/2008, Volume 013, Issue 34
www.theweeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/080inxsb.asp


While news reports like to speak of a &#8220;resurgent Taliban&#8221; in Afghanistan, in the 14 provinces that make up Regional Command East in Afghanistan they are a defeated military force. Not only do the Taliban refuse to engage American forces directly, they have [...]]]></description>
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