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		<title>War Clouds Gathering: Neo-Cons vs. Mullahs</title>
		<link>http://shadowedforest.wordpress.com/2010/11/11/war-clouds-gathering-neo-cons-vs-mullahs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William deB. Mills</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the U.S. midterm election behind us and the specter of a reinvigorated War Party preparing for a presidential election against a weak, confused, and nearly leaderless Democratic Party that has no structured liberal faction, it is now time for everyone worldwide to focus their thinking on the threat of the world’s first nuclear war, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shadowedforest.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1022520&amp;post=188&amp;subd=shadowedforest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sliding Toward U.S.-Iran War</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 23:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William deB. Mills</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leaders, not societies, cause wars, so any evaluation of the likelihood of war should pay close attention to the nature of the leaders. Concerning the question of whether or not a war may occur between the U.S. and Iran by mistake, the nature of the leaders is of particular concern. One of the primary factors [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shadowedforest.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1022520&amp;post=183&amp;subd=shadowedforest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>U.S.-Iranian War Even If No One Wants It?</title>
		<link>http://shadowedforest.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/u-s-iranian-war-even-if-no-one-wants-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 22:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William deB. Mills</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have the international political context and the respective domestic political contexts of Iran, the U.S., and Israel placed Iran and the U.S. on a slippery slope leading to war, whether or not anyone actually wants it? Political science theory offers an explanation of how war may occur even when neither side desires it. Are U.S.-Iranian [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shadowedforest.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1022520&amp;post=176&amp;subd=shadowedforest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>German Jews Planning Gaza Flotilla</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 23:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William deB. Mills</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The international flotilla to Gaza led by a group of Turks was implementing international law, specifically U.N. Resolution 1860, though one might have a hard time proving that by reading the U.S. media. And the next flotilla may be led by German Jews! Americans still deluded into thinking that the politicians in charge in Israel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shadowedforest.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1022520&amp;post=174&amp;subd=shadowedforest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Turkey: Next Steps vis-a-vis Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 16:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William deB. Mills</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ankara faces some hard decisions in its effort to alter Israeli behavior. No easy solution exists, but both diplomatic and military options worth exploring are available, should Ankara wish to go beyond rhetoric and take the kind of actions that will earn Tel Aviv’s respect. Ankara’s best option would seem to be the designing of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shadowedforest.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1022520&amp;post=172&amp;subd=shadowedforest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iran&#8217;s Opportunity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 16:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William deB. Mills</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Tehran plays correctly the valuable card in its hand, it has the opportunity to weaken U.S. control over the international political system at the same time that it enhances both its security and its prestige. The unseemly haste of the Obama Administration&#8211;after Turkey and Brazil persuaded Iran to compromise&#8211;to reaffirm Washington&#8217;s &#8220;neo-con-light&#8221; policy of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shadowedforest.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1022520&amp;post=169&amp;subd=shadowedforest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Le Paradigme Modérés-Militants</title>
		<link>http://shadowedforest.wordpress.com/2010/05/30/le-paradigme-moderes-militants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 16:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William deB. Mills</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The White House remains, nine years after 9/11, mired in the false paradigm that the Mideast is divided neatly into two opposing camps &#8211; &#8220;good&#8221; moderates vs. &#8220;bad&#8221; militants, which is exactly why Washington should start listening to the real moderates such as Erdogan and Lula. Robert Malley and Peter Harling from International Crisis Group [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shadowedforest.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1022520&amp;post=167&amp;subd=shadowedforest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>America Caught in the Israel Right&#8217;s Iran Trap</title>
		<link>http://shadowedforest.wordpress.com/2010/05/29/america-caught-in-the-israel-rights-iran-trap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 18:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William deB. Mills</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The crux of the debate over the impact of the U.S.-Israeli alliance on U.S. national security is its undermining of U.S.-Iranian relations. The pressure by Israeli hawks on the U.S. to maintain a hostile policy toward Iran, to combat its emergence as a regional power, and to discriminate against it on the nuclear issue illustrates [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shadowedforest.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1022520&amp;post=165&amp;subd=shadowedforest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Digging Your Own Grave</title>
		<link>http://shadowedforest.wordpress.com/2010/05/27/digging-your-own-grave/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 15:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William deB. Mills</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to nuclear policy, both Washington and Tehran appear to be digging their own graves. Now that the Western nuclear powers have taken the small but commendable step toward nuclear transparency of revealing how many nuclear warheads [All Headline News 5/27/10] they possess, the spotlight shines all the brighter on the nuclear rogue [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shadowedforest.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1022520&amp;post=158&amp;subd=shadowedforest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Positive-Sum Mideast Strategy</title>
		<link>http://shadowedforest.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/positive-sum-mideast-strategy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 15:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William deB. Mills</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What would happen in the Mideast if the U.S. replaced its zero-sum view of security with a positive-sum view?* As tempting as it may be to conceive of an opponent as &#8220;evil&#8221; and oneself as &#8220;good,&#8221; the truth is seldom so clear-cut: something happened, someone felt boxed in, someone misunderstood someone else&#8217;s intentions, one thing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shadowedforest.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1022520&amp;post=155&amp;subd=shadowedforest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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