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		<title>Leon Panetta: a legacy of the conventional wisdom</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bandow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leon Panetta's failure to accommodate a rapidly changing world will be his most important, and disappointing, legacy as U.S. secretary of defense.]]></description>
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		<title>Japan as a normal country</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bandow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. should reject the notion of preparing for war in the Pacific, and let Japan and its neighbors cooperate to counter Beijing's geopolitical ambitions.]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. now less secure, less free</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 00:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bandow</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a decade since that beautiful September day when terrorists brought down the World Trade Center, damaged the Pentagon, and killed thousands of Americans. Unfortunately, in important ways the terrorists have won. The U.S. is less confident, less secure, and less free. America has suffered through a disastrous decade. The 9/11 attacks were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revolution no boon to the Copts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 00:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bandow</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ugly reality has dashed the high hopes of the &#8220;Arab Spring.&#8221; In Egypt the fall of Hosni Mubarak has encouraged religious intolerance and persecution, especially against the Coptic Christian community. Mubarak ruled for three decades. Among his victims were Coptic Christians, who make up around 10 percent of the population. They predate Islam, but today [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Squaring the U.S., China, Taiwan triangle</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bandow</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing causes greater discord in relations between the United States and China than the status of Taiwan, officially known as the Republic of China. However, the best way to maintain peace between Washington and Beijing may be for the U.S. to continue selling weapons to Taiwan. Once ruled by imperial China &#8212; but never by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. foreign aid hinders more than it helps</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bandow</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SEATTLE &#8212; The United States will run up a record &#36;1.65 trillion deficit in 2011. Yet Washington keeps subsidizing foreign governments. House Republicans have targeted foreign aid. This year the State Department would lose 16 percent of its budget; humanitarian aid would drop by 41 percent. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warns of catastrophe: &#8220;Cuts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost religious liberty worldwide</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bandow</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &#8212; Many of us take religious liberty for granted. Unfortunately, this most fundamental freedom is not protected in many countries around the world. Religious liberty is the proverbial canary in the mine. If a state won&#8217;t respect this most basic freedom of conscience, it isn&#8217;t likely to respect people&#8217;s lives and dignity in any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. hurts itself sitting on South Korea FTA</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 00:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bandow</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &#8212; How have the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress responded to the twin challenges of continued high unemployment and China&#8217;s displacing America as the No. 1 trading partner with leading East Asian states? By retreating economically from Asia. The U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement sits unratified in Washington. This policy is remarkable for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to let the neighbors deal with the North Korean problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2010 00:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bandow</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PARIS &#8212; North Korea has officially unveiled the youngest son and heir apparent of &#8220;Dear Leader&#8221; Kim Jong Il. Yet again the impoverished dictatorship has captured the world&#8217;s attention. But the United States should leave the problem of dealing with Pyongyang to the North&#8217;s neighbors. The so-called Democratic People&#8217;s Republic of Korea, the world&#8217;s first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s better to help arm Taiwan than defend it</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Bandow</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration is preparing a new arms package for Taiwan. Ironically, selling weapons to Taipei may be the best way for Washington to get out from the middle of one of the world&#8217;s potentially most volatile relationships, between China and Taiwan. Relations between China and Taiwan are improving. Yet the former continues to point [...]]]></description>
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