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				<title>Ted Galen Carpenter (Cato Institute)</title>
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				<title>Nuclear Realities (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10286</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Recent events suggest that the U.S.-led strategy for dealing with the nuclear programs of Iran and North Korea is not only likely to fail, but the mere attempt may also produce an especially bad outcome.

President Obama's response to North Korea's nuclear test encapsulated Washington's approach. ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Which Side Is Bluffing in N Korean Standoff? (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10259</link>
				<description><![CDATA[North Korea's nuclear test on Monday immediately produced a storm of denunciations from the United States and other countries. President Barack Obama stated that the US would seek new economic sanctions from the UN Security Council, and warned Pyongyang that the continued pursuit of nuclear weapons ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Proliferated Nonsense (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10230</link>
				<description><![CDATA[It's been a really bad springtime for arms-control activists who want to see a nuclear-free world. First, when the UN Security Council criticized North Korea's test of a long-range ballistic missile in early April, Pyongyang used that response&#8212;toothless though it was&#8212;as a pretext to with...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>First 100 Days: Mixed Record on Foreign Policy Challenges (Scholar Comments)</title>
			<link>http://www.cato.org/pressroom.php?display=ncomments&amp;id=211#blurb238</link>
			<description><![CDATA[On the plus side, Obama moved quickly to fulfill his most important foreign policy promise: ending the war in Iraq. That said, the policy that his administration will implement is consistent with the agreement that the outgoing Bush administration negotiated with the Iraqis. Given that the war has undermined U.S. security interests, and our continuing presence there is costly and counterproductive, Obama should have proposed to remove U.S. troops on a faster timetable.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>First 100 Days: Mixed Record on Foreign Policy Challenges (Scholar Comments)</title>
			<link>http://www.cato.org/pressroom.php?display=ncomments&amp;id=211#blurb240</link>
			<description><![CDATA[On Iran, President Obama made the right decision by agreeing to join the P5 + 1 negotiations, but that is only a first step. The two sides are far apart and President Obama has not signaled his intentions if negotiations fail to produce a definitive breakthrough. Sanctions have had a very uneven track record, and are unlikely to succeed in convincing the Iranians to permanently forego uranium enrichment. If the Iranians are intent upon acquiring nuclear weapons, military action would merely delay Iran 's program, and would serve in the meantime to rally support for an otherwise unpopular clerical regime, and a manifestly incompetent president.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Shooting Up the Border (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10127</link>
				<description><![CDATA[When President Obama travels to Mexico today to meet with President Felipe Calder&#243;n, the alarming drug violence in our southern neighbor is likely to be the main topic of discussion. Unfortunately, neither leader seems to have a clue about how to lessen the carnage. Calder&#243;n's governme...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10127</guid>
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				<title>A Bold Plan B for North Korea (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10124</link>
				<description><![CDATA[North Korea's announced withdrawal Tuesday from the six-party talks in response to the UN Security Council's tepid reaction to the April 5 missile test raises a disturbing possibility. The US and the governments of East Asia have proceeded on the assumption that a diplomatic solution to North Korea'...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>The Feckless Alliance (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10102</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The White House spin machine is working overtime to portray the agreement regarding Afghanistan reached at the weekend NATO summit in Strasbourg as a great victory for U.S. foreign policy. Obama himself expressed satisfaction that "our NATO allies pledged their strong and unanimous support for our n...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>NATO at 60: A Hollow Alliance (Policy Analysis)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10067</link>
				<description><![CDATA[As the North Atlantic Treaty Organization celebrates
its 60th birthday, there are mounting signs
of trouble within the alliance and reasons to doubt
the organization's relevance regarding the foreign
policy challenges of the 21st century. Several developments
contribute to those doubts.

Alth...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Bad Neighbors (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10031</link>
				<description><![CDATA[As the carnage from the drug violence in Mexico mounts and is finally causing political leaders and the media in the United States to pay attention, Mexico's own leaders exhibit ever greater delusional tendencies about the problem. The most glaring example was Mexican Attorney General Eduardo Medina...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Fight Drugs or Terrorists &#8212; But Not Both (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10027</link>
				<description><![CDATA[A proposed directive by General John Craddock, Nato's top commander, to target opium traffickers and "facilitators" in Afghanistan has provoked considerable opposition within the alliance. That resistance is warranted, since Craddock's proposal is a spectacularly bad idea. Implementing this proposal...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Ted Galen Carpenter discusses the roots of Mexico's drug violence. (Weekly Video)</title>
			<link>http://www.cato.org/weekly/index.php?vid_id=99</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Since January 2007 there have been more than 6,800 drug-war related deaths in Mexico, and Mexican drug cartels continue to expand their operations in American cities. Washington's response has been to expand its prohibitionist efforts with the Mérida Initiative, a U.S.­Mexico anti-drug-trafficking program. Historically, however, prohibitionist policies have had little success in reducing the flow of drugs.  Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato's Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, suggests a new strategy must be tried.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>NATO's Welfare Bums (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9989</link>
				<description><![CDATA[As NATO celebrates its sixtieth birthday in April, there are mounting signs of trouble within the alliance and reasons to doubt the organization's relevance in the twenty-first century. The most worrisome indicator is that the defense spending levels and military capabilities of NATO's principal Eur...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9989</guid>
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				<title>Drug Gangs Winning the War for Mexico (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9948</link>
				<description><![CDATA[While U.S. leaders focus on Afghanistan, Iran and other problems in distant regions, there is an alarming security problem brewing right next door. Violence in Mexico, mostly related to the trade in illegal drugs, is spiraling out of control. Even worse, it is increasingly apparent that the drug-tra...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9948</guid>
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				<title>Troubled Neighbor: Mexico's Drug Violence Poses a Threat to the United States (Policy Analysis)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9932</link>
				<description><![CDATA[While U.S. leaders have focused on actual or illusory security threats in distant regions, there is a troubling security problem brewing much closer to home. Violence in Mexico, mostly related to the trade in illegal drugs, has risen sharply in recent years and shows signs of becoming even worse. Th...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9932</guid>
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				<title>Lazy Allies (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9933</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Media reports indicate that President Obama may abandon his plan to ask America’s NATO partners to provide more combat troops for the mission in Afghanistan. Given how militarily useless many of the existing European deployments have been, that may not prove to be a big loss. But the feckless conduc...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9933</guid>
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				<title>Obama's Legislative Funeral (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9893</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Lord Salisbury, who served as British foreign secretary in the late 1800s, observed that "the commonest error in politics is sticking to the carcass of dead policies." As Barack Obama enters the White House, several venerable U.S. policies reek of decay. Three policies are especially in need of buri...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
				<guid>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9893</guid>
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			<title>Drug War Violence Surges in Mexico (Daily Podcast)</title>
			<link>http://www.cato.org/dailypodcast/podcast-archive.php?podcast_id=810</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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