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		<title>Hiding Places</title>
		<link>http://www.jadedsage.com/2010/01/17/hiding-places/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past month, Yemen has burst on the media scene after disenfranchised Nigerian, Umar Abdulmutallab, attempted to blow up a Christmas Day flight from the Netherlands to Detroit by enclosing explosives in his skivvies. Abdulmutallab was trained and financed by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), a splinter group that has found refuge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lieberman summons envoy in U.S. over leaked rebuke of government</title>
		<link>http://www.jadedsage.com/2009/08/09/lieberman-summons-envoy-in-u-s-over-leaked-rebuke-of-government/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 05:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama Administration has insisted that Israel freeze settlement activity in the West Bank. A significant Israeli diplomat dared to speak out on how Israel’s failure to implement a settlement freeze is hurting their relationship with their most important ally. He was recalled. Let’s keep an eye on what happens to Mr. Tamir.
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		<title>What Lesson from the Holocaust?</title>
		<link>http://www.jadedsage.com/2009/08/02/what-lesson-from-the-holocaust/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The region’s only democracy Israel’s proponents decry. Is this the type of democracy we want to support? It is time to cut loose this alliance.



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		<title>Calming the Waters</title>
		<link>http://www.jadedsage.com/2009/07/28/calming-the-waters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Diplomacy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The great progressive writer Randolph Bourne once said, “Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.” The foundations for the Obama foreign policy are beginning to take shape. President [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clouds of Suspicion</title>
		<link>http://www.jadedsage.com/2009/07/18/clouds-of-suspicion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 04:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently fifty four Israeli soldiers were interviewed by an Israeli organization known as Breaking the Silence. These soldiers told of their orders and activities while invading Gaza. Their tactics in many cases were nothing a moral army should be proud of.  Using white phosphorous, utilizing Palestinian civilians as forced scouts and even using the locals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saddam&#8217;s Fear</title>
		<link>http://www.jadedsage.com/2009/07/06/saddams-fear/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Iraq War]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saddam Hussein spoke to his captors about the reasons why he danced around weapons inspectors in the run up to the Iraq War. It further shows the shortsidedness of the Bush policy and its failing to understand how Iraq, sitting on the Sunni-Shia fault line, served as a buffer against a resurgent Iran.
Documents Show Iraqi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Flames of Discontent</title>
		<link>http://www.jadedsage.com/2009/07/06/the-flames-of-discontent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reza Aslan informs us of the beginning of a strike in Iran which is wrapped in an obscure religious holiday in his latest, &#8220;Iran Goes on Strike&#8221;. It is a great read.
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A massive sandstorm swept into Tehran Monday morning, blanketing the streets in a dark and dreamy haze. The tops of buildings, where, last night, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&quot;Death to the Dictator&quot;</title>
		<link>http://www.jadedsage.com/2009/06/17/death-to-the-dictator/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jadedsage.com/2009/06/17/death-to-the-dictator/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The momentum we are seeing in Iran these last few days is fascinating. Does anyone think this could have happened if President Bush was in office? If you remember Bush classified Iran as one of the &#8220;Axis of Evil&#8221;. This further isolated Iran and helped lead to a little known hard line mayor of Tehran, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Grand Distraction</title>
		<link>http://www.jadedsage.com/2009/06/03/the-grand-distraction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama is giving the speech tomorrow that President Bush should have given on October 11, 2001. Though he won&#8217;t alter events on the ground in the Middle East immediately, Obama will cause the minds of many Muslims to shift. America chose to deal with terrorism by blindly flailing with a sharpened spear and in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crimes in the Sandbox</title>
		<link>http://www.jadedsage.com/2009/05/26/crimes-in-the-sandbox/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jadedsage.com/2009/05/26/crimes-in-the-sandbox/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 02:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You get the feeling this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Iraq. So much for loyalty to country.





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