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		<title>Afghanistan policy fail</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am extremely troubled by the Obama administration&#8217;s approach to Afghanistan &#8211; I don&#8217;t see a list of clear, achievable goals or anything approaching an exit strategy, and simply throwing more troops at the situation sounds more like the failed policy in Iraq than anything else. The following quotes from an interview with Rory Stewart, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewmundy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=685233&amp;post=985&amp;subd=matthewmundy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Things are really, really bad in the Congo</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is with considerable reluctance that I recommend reading this NYT article on the newest atrocity that has sprung up in the Congo &#8211; male rape. While the United Nations already considered the eastern Congo the rape capital of the world, this certainly underscores the ratcheting up of the violence against civilians in the area. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewmundy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=685233&amp;post=981&amp;subd=matthewmundy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>High Frequency Trading</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a lot of chatter of late about high frequency trading (from here on HFT &#8211; it&#8217;s basically the use of super fast computers to get an edge on trades and deals) and whether or not it&#8217;s a good, or bad, or inconsequential practice, and what to do about it. As of right [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewmundy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=685233&amp;post=977&amp;subd=matthewmundy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Middle East Push</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NYT has a piece on the Obama administration&#8217;s push for peace in the Middle East, and it notes &#8211; among other things &#8211; the perception that the strategy is alienating Israelis while failing to sway Arabs. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: In Israel, public opinion toward Mr. Obama, which was skeptical to start with, has soured [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewmundy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=685233&amp;post=973&amp;subd=matthewmundy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hendrik Hertzberg is smarter than you</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He is. Just read this. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: The American health-care system is bloated, wasteful, and cruel. Under the health-insurance-reform package now being bludgeoned into misshapen shape on Capitol Hill, it will still be bloated, wasteful, and cruel—but markedly less so. &#8230; The most consequential opposition to the reforms now under consideration is coming from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewmundy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=685233&amp;post=969&amp;subd=matthewmundy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A little bit of prescience</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry I haven&#8217;t been posting for the past couple of days (things have been hectic &#8217;round these parts) but I&#8217;ve been reading Walt and Mearsheimer&#8217;s &#8216;The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy&#8217; (finally) and I was struck by this quote from Harry Shaw, former head of the Office of Management and Budget&#8217;s Military Assistance Branch: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewmundy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=685233&amp;post=965&amp;subd=matthewmundy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Law-free zones for the poor</title>
		<link>http://matthewmundy.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/law-free-zones-for-the-poor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is interesting and depressing. From the Wonk Room over at Think Progress comes a report that finds that the legal needs of the poor in the United States are unmet 80 percent of the time*. While one obvious takeaway from this would be an unsurprising shrug of the shoulders, the other obvious takeaway would [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewmundy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=685233&amp;post=961&amp;subd=matthewmundy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Move on up&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://matthewmundy.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/move-on-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:56:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was just browsing Kevin Drum&#8217;s blog and came across this incredible chart (below) coming from Pew Global Attitudes. One of the questions looks at world opinion on whether America will do the right thing in world affairs, and compares the results from the Bush years and Obama now. The results are shocking. Look at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewmundy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=685233&amp;post=957&amp;subd=matthewmundy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wild as the Taliban</title>
		<link>http://matthewmundy.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/wild-as-the-taliban/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So in the unsurprising news file, things are really not looking good in Pakistan right now. At all. It continues to be the single scariest country in the world, and things look as if they&#8217;re getting worse. I&#8217;ve written about the mammoth problems facing Pakistan in the past &#8211; here for example &#8211; and with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewmundy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=685233&amp;post=953&amp;subd=matthewmundy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Priority Shift for Conservative Dems?</title>
		<link>http://matthewmundy.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/priority-shift-for-conservative-dems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While there has been a lot of hand-wringing and pundit blather about Obama and the Dems overreaching on health care (and some other initiatives, but primarily health care), I think it&#8217;s worth noting that the majority of America trusts Obama far more than they do the GOP. And with that inclination pretty firmly in place [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthewmundy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=685233&amp;post=950&amp;subd=matthewmundy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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