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            <title><![CDATA[Pakistan's Army Is Impotent]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Pakistan authorities couldn't find Osama bin Laden and they couldn't respond to the American assault on his compound. M.J. Akbar on why the military's independence is self-destructive. 
The death of two birds with one stone is generally greeted with...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why the Mosque Scares the Right]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[There's a cynical reason that people like Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin don't want a mosque built near ground zero, writes M.J. Akbar-it will prove that there's nothing scary about Islam.
Can there be any rational reason for such subliminal fear of a...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obama's False Ally]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Is the president's Afghanistan timetable about victory there in 2011-or here in 2012? M.J. Akbar on Obama's cynical calculation, and his missed chance to get India fighting on his side.
Barack Obama is clearly a postmodernist commander in chief. He...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mumbai's Dangerous Amnesia]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Washington's response to 9/11 may have been over the top, but it sent the right message. India's sleepy reaction to the terrorist assault on Mumbai a year ago today is an invitation to another attack, says M.J. Akbar.
Delhi: The ebb from outrage to...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Great Fallacy of Obama's War]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As the president dithers about whether to send 36,000 more troops or 40,000-as if 4,000 will convert potential humiliation into a historic victory-M.J. Akbar explains why the warlords always get the last word. 
At 11 a.m. on 11/11, a cannon boomed in...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Hillary Won Over India]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Clinton proved her diplomatic skills in Delhi, says M.J. Akbar, one of India's leading columnists. She knows how to deliver tough talk with perfect nuance and a lovely smile. 
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's seamless public-posture/private-face...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Holbrooke's Diplomatic Score]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[It looks as if US special envoy Richard Holbrooke has already gotten tough on Pakistan to good effect. 
Unusually, given the track record of the last eight years, an American diplomat was in the right place at the right time. On February 12, one day...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Holbrooke's Dangerous Game in Pakistan]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Once a staunch opponent of jihad, Pakistan has turned into a toxic "jelly state" run by theocratic armies. Can Obama's special envoy unite the country against the Taliban?
As President Obama sends conciliatory missives to Iran and provocative missiles...]]></description>
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