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		<title>AfPak: Too Big To Fail?</title>
		<link>http://muqaa-wama.com/2011/05/05/afpak-too-big-to-fail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 15:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We can&#8217;t lose focus&#8221; after Bin Laden&#8217;s death, said the former Secretary of State, the woman who helped author the most costly loss of focus in the history of America&#8217;s fight against terrorism.   Of course, Condi Rice had no earthly idea when she spouted her &#8220;mushroom cloud&#8221; warning years ago that Saddam Hussein had long given up his nuclear [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muqaa-wama.com&#038;blog=8491031&#038;post=512&#038;subd=jakkalvibe&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Comes First: The Dictator or the Fundamentalist?</title>
		<link>http://muqaa-wama.com/2011/04/24/what-comes-first-the-dictator-or-the-fundamentalist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2011 21:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;La Ikhwan, La Salafia.  A Sha&#8217;ab Bidu Huriyya.&#8221;   &#8220;No Muslim Brotherhood.  No Salafists.  The Youth want Freedom.&#8221; The language above on the sign held up by a Syrian protester this week encapsulates all the promise, and anxiety, of this moment for Western policy makers watching the Arab revolutions unfold.  What kind of freedom?  Who will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muqaa-wama.com&#038;blog=8491031&#038;post=503&#038;subd=jakkalvibe&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Demonstrations, With Air Support?</title>
		<link>http://muqaa-wama.com/2011/03/27/demonstrations-with-air-support/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Barack Obama has now fired more cruise missiles than all other Nobel Peace Prize winners combined.&#8221; It&#8217;s good for a laugh.  A cheap laugh.  The blogger who wrote this clearly doesn&#8217;t have any appreciation for the reality that confronts American presidents on a daily basis.  No doubt he or she also did not have any [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muqaa-wama.com&#038;blog=8491031&#038;post=489&#038;subd=jakkalvibe&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Arab Spring: A Tribe Called Youth</title>
		<link>http://muqaa-wama.com/2011/03/14/the-arab-spring-a-tribe-called-youth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ibn Khaldun, the great 14th century North African polymath, was the first to give the Arabs a sense of their own history.  Before there were universities, before there was even a discipline called the social sciences, Ibn Khaldun plied the Mediterranean world, a resident scholar to kings and sultans from Castile to Cairo, writing his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muqaa-wama.com&#038;blog=8491031&#038;post=473&#038;subd=jakkalvibe&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let Them Fail So We Don&#8217;t Have To</title>
		<link>http://muqaa-wama.com/2011/01/11/let-them-fail-so-we-dont-have-to/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A central objective of U.S. strategy in fragile states like Iraq and Afghanistan is to create an environment conducive to internal groups playing nice, settling their differences through political dialogue and compromise rather than violence and insurgency. Therefore, it was with more than a tinge of irony that the world watched one of America&#8217;s arch [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muqaa-wama.com&#038;blog=8491031&#038;post=466&#038;subd=jakkalvibe&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Thinking Man&#8217;s Foreign Policy</title>
		<link>http://muqaa-wama.com/2010/11/17/a-thinking-mans-foreign-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I share Eugene Robinson&#8217;s well-articulated concern in his most recent Washington Post column.  The numbers are stark: America&#8217;s share of total world defense spending is 46.5%.  Second place goes to China at a meager 6.6%.  In an age of withering economic hardship at home and growing deficits and debt, why do we continue to subsidize a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muqaa-wama.com&#038;blog=8491031&#038;post=459&#038;subd=jakkalvibe&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Muslim Responsibility</title>
		<link>http://muqaa-wama.com/2010/11/01/a-muslim-responsibility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Muqaawama</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Muslim communities across America can only cringe once again at the latest spate of news: package bombs from Yemen bound for Chicago area synagogues; a plot to simultaneously bomb multiple subway stations in the DC metro area.  In both cases, the main culprits are American citizens of Muslim faith and heritage: in Yemen, Anwar Al [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muqaa-wama.com&#038;blog=8491031&#038;post=445&#038;subd=jakkalvibe&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Under Obama, Business as Usual&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://muqaa-wama.com/2010/10/24/under-obama-business-as-usual/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2010 22:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hussein was not a dirty word for most American Muslims who watched the first black man inaugurated president two years ago.  The president&#8217;s middle name represented a certain hope, not that our new head of state was a closet Muslim, for we all knew better, and, given many of our experiences, we were not advocates [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muqaa-wama.com&#038;blog=8491031&#038;post=433&#038;subd=jakkalvibe&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Development Disrupted</title>
		<link>http://muqaa-wama.com/2010/10/06/development-disrupted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 18:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Tamim Ansary&#8217;s excellent history, Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes- written in plain, digestable English, not scholar-speak- a particular passage recently struck me as a lost morsel of critical perspective as we wage our &#8220;global war against extremism&#8221;.  In his book, Ansary is talking about the 7th century battle of Uhud, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muqaa-wama.com&#038;blog=8491031&#038;post=425&#038;subd=jakkalvibe&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend I hopped on Interstate 95 and rubbernecked my way along stimulus-inspired construction lanes down to colonial Williamsburg, a time-warp back to the days of British empire in America and its discontents.  A passion-play called &#8220;Revolutionary City&#8221; was captivating a crowd of tourists along the former colonial capital&#8217;s cobblestone avenues, complete with costumed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=muqaa-wama.com&#038;blog=8491031&#038;post=419&#038;subd=jakkalvibe&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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