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The Cato Institute seeks to broaden the parameters of public policy debate to allow consideration of the traditional American principles of limited government, individual liberty, free markets and peace. Toward that goal, the Institute strives to achieve greater involvement of the intelligent, concerned lay public in questions of policy and the proper role of government.
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				<title>The Pentagon on Defense (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9760</link>
				<description><![CDATA[With tax revenues plunging as the economy heads south and the federal government commits to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to shore up financial institutions, the next president will inherit a mounting deficit. Sooner or later, spending cuts are likely to be in the cards. If either John McCai...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Cato Scholar Comments on $150 Million Homeland Security Information Network Next Generation (Scholar Comments)</title>
			<link>http://www.cato.org/pressroom.php?display=ncomments&amp;id=156#blurb171</link>
			<description><![CDATA[This program is being ruined by secrecy. The information that the $150 million program disseminates is "sensitive but unclassified threat and emergency-response information." Sensitive but unclassified is a phony classification invented by the Bush administration to restrict information flows. The information should simply be given to the public, local officials included. DHS does not need a second generation portal to provide it to its consumers, it needs a website. That way, they would spend $149 million less and get more out of it.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Don't Expand NATO (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9738</link>
				<description><![CDATA[At the upcoming North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in December, U.S. officials will once again make the case for admitting Georgia and Ukraine to the alliance. Our NATO allies, with Germany and France leading the way, already blocked the two countries' path to membership last spring, a move t...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Candidates Avoid Specifics on Security (Daily Podcast)</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Cato Scholar Comments on the American Intelligence Report Predicting a Crisis in Afghanistan (Scholar Comments)</title>
			<link>http://www.cato.org/pressroom.php?display=ncomments&amp;id=149#blurb164</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The leaked NIE shows what has long been obvious: the current U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, which sees success as the creation of a powerful central government and a cohesive and orderly state, flies in the face of Afghanistan's political realities. Afghanistan is a country that fits few of the accepted definitions of a true country. Power is radically decentralized, and always has been. Rather than fight this history, the U.S. should accept and work with local authority figures, even those with Taliban sympathies and poppy-supported income if they are willing to desist from insurgency. In the long term, we should remember that our main interest in Afghanistan is not the creation of a functional democracy but the prevention of terrorist havens. That objective does not require increased troop levels or state-building efforts.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>A Strategy of Restraint Overseas (Daily Podcast)</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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