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		<title>Do not forsake me</title>
		<link>http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/07/16/do-not-forsake-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Fernandez</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The New York Times reports that America&#8217;s Eastern European allies are pleading with the Obama administration &#8220;not to be forgotten&#8221;. It was signed by the revolutionaries of 1989 who wrote &#8220;Twenty years have passed since the revolutions of 1989. That is a whole generation. We need a new generation to renew the transatlantic partnership. A [...]<br/>
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		<title>Words and the man</title>
		<link>http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/07/16/words-and-the-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Fernandez</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Daniel Henniger, writing in the Wall Street Journal, asks, &#8220;can Barack Obama talk his way onto Mount Rushmore?&#8221;
He might. In fact, if just half of what Mr. Obama has said that he, we or the world should do comes to pass, he&#8217;s going straight to that mountain. More than any U.S. president, The Speech is [...]<br/>
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		<title>Let a hundred choppers bloom</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Fernandez</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[During the mid-1950s in Mao&#8217;s China power struggles were waged under the guise of innocuous names, such as the Hundred Flowers Movement.  It was began as an invitation by Mao for all the dissident elements of the Party to come forward: &#8220;let a hundred flowers blossom and hundred schools of thought contend&#8221;. But it finished [...]<br/>
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		<title>Smoke gets in your eyes</title>
		<link>http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/07/15/smoke-gets-in-your-eyes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Fernandez</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Several sites on the Internet maintain lists of &#8220;final meals&#8221; requested by prisoners about to die. The last meals of those condemned by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, are in their way as fascinating as the best-selling accounts of the Last Dinner on the Titanic, which in case you are interested, consisted in First [...]<br/>
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		<title>Gravity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Fernandez</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A number of small indicators &#8212; the poor reviews of Sonia Sotomayor, attempts by Hillary Clinton to regain the center stage of foreign policy, and admissions by the President that unemployment will continue to rise &#8212; suggest that the Barack Obama&#8217;s initial political capital is running out.  Maybe the most dangerous indicator that the impetus [...]<br/>
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		<title>Going to the dogs</title>
		<link>http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/07/15/going-to-the-dogs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Fernandez</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The LA Times describes a little known US military training facility where soldiers are trained to handle pack donkeys for possible use in Afghanistan. It writes:
With the U.S. shifting its focus from the deserts of Iraq to the mountains of Central Asia, this course on pack animals at the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center [...]<br/>
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		<title>Who saved GI Joe?</title>
		<link>http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/07/14/who-saved-gi-joe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Fernandez</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[One of the actual models for the Hasboro action figure GI Joe was Marine Medal of Honor winner Mitchell Paige. Paige  who passed away in 2003, held a hilltop on Guadalcanal against more than a company of Imperial Japanese soldiers by manning each of the four machine gun positions in turn after everyone else had [...]<br/>
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		<title>Procrustean bed</title>
		<link>http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/07/13/procrustean-bed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Fernandez</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[One of the most enduring political problems is finding a &#8220;legitimate&#8221; reason to do something convenient. When a crisis happens along that provides an excuse to gratify ambition, it is seized as an opportunity. If nothing turns up, then a justification can always be manufactured. The desire to make facts conform to desires is as [...]<br/>
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		<title>Let’s make a deal</title>
		<link>http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/07/13/lets-make-a-deal-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Fernandez</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Michael Ledeen has come out and said what&#8217;s been circulating on the grapevine about the release of the Qods detainees in Iraq to Iran. &#8220;I’ll Give You Dozens of Terrorists, You Give Me One Journalist, OK?&#8221; Ledeen writes:
It’s a bit more complicated than that, but the bottom line is that we are turning loose Iranian [...]<br/>
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		<title>From One to Forty Four</title>
		<link>http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/07/12/from-one-to-forty-four/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Fernandez</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Tigerhawk wonders whether Barack Obama&#8217;s declining political fortunes have any connection to the spate of investigations launched against Bush-era officials. &#8220;Call me a cynic, but I am not in the least surprised that a couple of weeks after Barack Obama&#8217;s strong approval/disapproval ratings took a turn to the unfavorable and Obamacare is looking less like [...]<br/>
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