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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Dangerous China Game]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Obama's arms sale deal with Taiwan has provoked Beijing at a particularly delicate moment. Leslie H. Gelb on why neither nation has thought through the consequences of a collision. 
Don't be surprised if the United States and China start rattling each...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Speech Had Potential]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Obama served up some meaty ideas, shockingly bullish on exports and bragging about his terrorist body count. But when will we find out what he really meant?
The foreign-policy portion of President Obama's State of the Union address was among the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[New Doubts About Afghanistan]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Talks with the Taliban. Pakistanis in the driver's seat. And no drawdown by July 2011. Leslie H. Gelb on the stunning new statements by McChrystal, Petraeus, and Gates, and what they mean for the future course of the war in Afghanistan.
This week...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Power Outage]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[One Senate upset, and the president seems ready to deal away health care. Leslie H. Gelb on how he needs to stop prattling on about institutions, grab the reins, and lead. 
If you want to grasp instantly why President Obama faces the abyss, look no...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Only Muslims Can Stop Muslim Terror]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[If America is going to win the fight against radical Islam, moderate Muslims will have to lead the charge-and explain to the rest of us how we can help.
President Obama warns against "extremism." Former Vice President Dick Cheney declaims against...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's Jimmy Carter Problem]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[If the president wants to be more than a one-term wonder, he needs to have a vision. Leslie H. Gelb on the three things that matter most.
Don't be fooled by the year-end reprieve of President Obama because the economy looks a bit brighter and the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Their Gift to the Nation]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The only question at Obama's health-care press conference: "What about the troops?" On this Christmas Day, Leslie H. Gelb, back from West Point and Annapolis, has the rousing answer.
When President Obama concluded his news conference Thursday on...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[We Just Saw the Future]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Copenhagen showed us the new normal: the U.S. has lost influence, China plays spoiler, and tiny nations veto anything they don't like. Leslie H. Gelb says get used to it.
We have seen the future of international politics and it is Copenhagen. That...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Is Obama Really a Hawk?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Conservatives have read too much into Obama's recent comments on the necessity of war. Leslie H. Gelb on the president's peaceful-and increasingly promising-foreign policy.
There's nothing like a Nobel peace speech extolling war to unite the...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama Got It Right-And Petraeus Agrees '100 Percent']]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As Obama's team hits the road to sell his Afghan plan, Leslie H. Gelb argues it beats the alternatives-and Americans have no choice but to rally around it. 
The best thing about the middle course on Afghanistan set out by President Obama at West Point...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Secret Details of Obama's Afghan Plan]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Obama will give the military most of the troops it wanted, add more in a year if needed, push the Afghans to step up-and change the mission against al Qaeda. Leslie H. Gelb has the exclusive details. 
President Barack Obama's long-awaited Tuesday...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Amateur Hour at the White House]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Asia trip was not worth Obama's time. Leslie H. Gelb on why the president should shake up his foreign policy team-and make sure the deals are done before he leaves home.
President Obama's nine-day trip to Asia is worth a look back to fix two...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[McChrystal's Fuzzy Math]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Amid reports that President Obama has settled on 30,000 troops for his Afghan surge, Leslie H. Gelb crunches.
The U.S. military brass has a lot of public explaining to do on its Afghan recommendations before President Barack Obama makes his new...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:51:42 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Stalled Out All Over the World]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  Our Afghan ally lacks legitimacy. The Mideast peace process is stuck. Iran flouts our wishes, and Iraq is falling apart. Leslie H. Gelb on how Obama can get foreign policy back out of the ditch.
Despite America's best efforts, President Hamid Karzai...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[At Last, An Afghan Plan]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Chopper crashes killed 14 Americans in Afghanistan on Monday, ratcheting up pressure on Obama to decide on a surge. Leslie H. Gelb reports he's ready to act-but not even his advisers know what he'll do. 
President Obama is set to make his "final"...]]></description>
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