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            <title><![CDATA[Israel Plays with Fire]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A slap in the face to Biden on settlements, and now a new insult: Israel is playing a dangerous game with America. Leslie H. Gelb on how the dispute badly damages U.S. power. 
Israel's right-wingers are congratulating themselves on their announcement...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[More Drama Would Help Obama]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The president's foreign-policy team has been remarkably  conflict-free. Leslie H. Gelb on why internal strife might make better  policy.
There hasn't been a time quite like this for over 50 years, since the Vietnam War. Battle royals over foreign and...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Rumbling Over Rahm]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Leslie H. Gelb's call for White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel to be reassigned spurred a circle-the-wagons reaction from pro- (or perhaps even anti-) Rahm forces. Gelb sifts the fallout for clues. 
When you write that the president of the United...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Wrong Way on Iran]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Talking tough is not enough. Neither imposing economic sanctions nor going to war will work. Leslie H. Gelb on the best of the bad options for Obama on Iran. 
Sure, every decent, right-thinker longs for regime change in Iran. The country's rulers...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Replace Rahm]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[President Obama desperately needs a sweeping staff shakeup to save his presidency. Leslie H. Gelb on why he must reassign Rahm, dump Larry Summers, and get rid of National Security adviser Jim Jones.
The negative, even dismissive, talk about the Obama...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:48:06 -0400]]></pubDate>
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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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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:24:11 -0400]]></pubDate>
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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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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:41:03 -0400]]></pubDate>
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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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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 25 Dec 2009 07:38:39 -0400]]></pubDate>
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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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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:49:35 -0400]]></pubDate>
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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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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:58:31 -0400]]></pubDate>
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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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