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		<title>Time to end the interference</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2013 14:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Pfaff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Clash of civilizations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[he West has suffered the delusion that a war on Muslim peoples of the Mideast would produce modernity and democracy. It is essential that the West cease its interference.]]></description>
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		<title>No place for a &#8216;Plan B&#8217; attack</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2013 14:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Pfaff</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington debates about the Syrian chemical weapons, and whether there is an Obama &#8220;Plan B&#8221; by which the United States may yet bomb Syria, seem deaf to what really happened last week. Russia delivered Syria, its ally, to international negotiations concerning those weapons and their renunciation. This has possibly opened the door to some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The folly of attacking Assad</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2013 14:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Pfaff</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It would seem a piece of wisdom picked up on the school playground not to start a fight that you don&#8217;t know how to finish. U.S. President Barack Obama may have missed this lesson during his primary school experience in Indonesia. But perhaps the U.S. Congress will spare him military folly with its vote next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anonymous murder from a safe distance</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Pfaff</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[War is war and murder is murder. The law draws the distinction. The American armed drone is a weapons system of war, not of policemen. And even if it were a police weapon (as it may, one fears, become in the future), the United States Department of Defense and the CIA are not police forces, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Enlightened Awakening?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Pfaff</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There are only three valid reasons why the Middle East, the focus of international attention as 2012 begins, is important to the United States and the European nations. These are energy, immigration and Israel. Beyond that, there is no evident cause for paying more attention to this region than to other areas in the world, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A question of hegemony</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2001 00:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Pfaff</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[An implicit alliance has emerged in Washington since the Cold War&#8217;s end between avowedly &#8220;Wilsonian&#8221; liberals, anxious to extend American influence and federate the democracies, and unilateralist neoconservative believers in U.S. power projection, who call for American world leadership, aggressively imposed, for world society&#8217;s own good. This spirit has underlain the activism and unilateralism evident [...]]]></description>
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