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		<title>Torture and death squads and Cheney, oh my&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/07/torture-and-death-squads-and-cheney-oh-my/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What have we learned this week, boys and girls? We&#8217;ve learned that every time we think we know the worst about Dick Cheney, every time we think we understand the fetid depths of the clandestine government that sick fuck and his neocon cabal were running out of the Bush White House, every time we fool [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on Robert McNamara</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/07/reflections-on-robert-mcnamara/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1450</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As a prominent public figure, Robert McNamara was before my time. He had stepped down as Secretary of Defense well before I was even born. But the man who died Monday had a more profound influence on our country&#8217;s politics and policy than any number of more recent, more familiar, and more famous names.
McNamara was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The politics of paranoia and paralogia</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/05/the-politics-of-paranoia-and-paralogia/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/05/the-politics-of-paranoia-and-paralogia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 02:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1336</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Where did we leave off? 
I was writing about the difficulty of finding something meaningful to say in the wake of all the full-time, professional political bloggers out there. Too often I feel like I&#8217;m just offering a synthesis of what others have said, rather than any new insight.
Perhaps I&#8217;m holding myself to an arbitrarily high [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The politics of torture, secrecy, and extortion</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/05/the-politics-of-torture-secrecy-and-extortion/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/05/the-politics-of-torture-secrecy-and-extortion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 11:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1189</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My recent posts on Star Trek brought me more readers than anything else I&#8217;ve written in months, but unfortunately I don&#8217;t have anything new to say about that right now.
My posts about politics, by contrast, usually draw markedly less traffic than the ones about pop culture. Nevertheless, I enjoy the topic, and certainly don&#8217;t intend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Damn, this guy is good:  Obama&#8217;s message to Iran</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/03/damn-this-guy-is-good-obamas-message-to-iran/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/03/damn-this-guy-is-good-obamas-message-to-iran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re all welcoming the arrival of spring, but in the Persian world, it&#8217;s not just a change of seasons, it&#8217;s a major holiday, a new year celebration known as Nowruz. And President Obama seized that occasion today to release a public message to the people and government of Iran, focusing on the theme of new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A bold policy choice, undermined: the Charles Freeman saga</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/03/a-bold-policy-choice-undermined-the-charles-freeman-saga/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/03/a-bold-policy-choice-undermined-the-charles-freeman-saga/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1123</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d been meaning for  several days to write about the Obama administration&#8217;s appointment of Charles (Chas) Freeman to the chairmanship of the National Intelligence Council. It was a praiseworthy choice that promised new perspectives on foreign intelligence and international relations&#8230; and therefore, unsurprisingly, it was controversial in certain corners. But I hadn&#8217;t gotten to it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top ten news stories of 2008</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2008/12/top-ten-news-stories-of-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2008/12/top-ten-news-stories-of-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 04:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A completely subjective list, of course. But what the hell&#8230; aren&#8217;t they all?
Going in to 2008, one could hardly open a magazine or flip a channel without hitting a media comparison to 1968. It was 40 years ago (a nice, round number), and it was a paradigm-shifting political year that looked familiar, with an open [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Palestine on the precipice</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2008/12/palestine-on-the-precipice/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2008/12/palestine-on-the-precipice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 03:36:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a time of year when most of the rest of the civilized world has been trying to observe a little peace and goodwill, the government of Israel has apparently decided this is a good time to launch &#8220;an all-out war to the bitter end&#8221; against Hamas&#8230; and thus, by extension, against the population of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Views from across the pond</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2008/10/views-from-across-the-pond/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2008/10/views-from-across-the-pond/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electoral]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=475</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s become a truism in recent election cycles that &#8220;endorsements don&#8217;t matter&#8221; any more. That may even be true in ordinary times, when undecided voters are just as likely to flip a coin or stay home as to read up on what other people think, and when endorsements are fairly evenly scattered among the available [...]]]></description>
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