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		<title>Obama and Israel, Into the Abyss</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/07/27/obama-and-israel-into-the-abyss/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Pipes</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://south-asiaforum.org/?p=1061</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What I dubbed the Obama administration&#8217;s &#8220;rapid and harsh turn against Israel&#8221; has had three quick, predictable, and counter-productive results. These point to further difficulties ahead.
First result: Barack Obama&#8217;s decision to get tough with Israel translates into escalating Palestinian demands on Israel. In early July, Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas and Saeb Erekat, his top [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Strategic Debate Over Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/05/13/the-strategic-debate-over-afghanistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 07:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SAF Desk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://south-asiaforum.org/?p=1010</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By George Friedman
After U.S. airstrikes killed scores of civilians in western Afghanistan this past week, White House National Security Adviser Gen. James L. Jones said the United States would continue with the airstrikes and would not tie the hands of U.S. generals fighting in Afghanistan. At the same time, U.S. Central Command chief Gen. David [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Government&#8217;s Iran dilemma</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/05/09/new-governments-iran-dilemma/</link>
		<comments>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/05/09/new-governments-iran-dilemma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 14:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amitabh Tripathi</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://south-asiaforum.org/?p=989</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[General Elections in India are in last leg and next week peopleâ€™s verdict will be wide open. In wake of an anticipated fractured verdict the deadlock for the formation of new government could extend for few weeks but it seems quite clear that it would be either Congress led government or BJP led government at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Netanyahu to Obama: Stop Iranâ€”Or I Will</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/04/02/netanyahu-to-obama-stop-iran%e2%80%94or-i-will/</link>
		<comments>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/04/02/netanyahu-to-obama-stop-iran%e2%80%94or-i-will/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 08:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SAF Desk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://south-asiaforum.org/?p=889</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Jeffrey Goldberg
In an interview conducted shortly before he was sworn inÂ  as prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu laid down a challenge for Barack Obama. The American president, he said, must stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weaponsâ€”and quicklyâ€”or an imperiled Israel may be forced to attack Iranâ€™s nuclear facilities itself.
â€œThe Obama presidency has two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Afgh-Pak Policy Already Unraveling</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/03/28/obama-afgh-pak-policy-already-unraveling/</link>
		<comments>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/03/28/obama-afgh-pak-policy-already-unraveling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Richard L. Benkin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://south-asiaforum.org/?p=845</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Delhi, India.  United States President Barack Hussein Obama unveiled his much awaited South Asian strategy in a globally televised speech last night (Indian time).  Today many Indians told me, as one put it, that Obama â€œlived up to his middle name by showing the face of a pro-Pakistan US policy,â€ a critical component [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clinton Puts US Head in Pakistani Sand</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/03/18/clinton-puts-us-head-in-pakistani-sand/</link>
		<comments>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/03/18/clinton-puts-us-head-in-pakistani-sand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:59:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Richard L. Benkin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://south-asiaforum.org/?p=847</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Rudrapur, India.  If Americans (or anyone else) needed proof that our government is hopelessly lost in South Asia, this morningâ€™s Indian papers provide all the confirmation they need.  The article in question featured a beaming Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praising the Pakistanis for â€œthemselves resolving [their] difficulties.â€ Now, to be sure, Pakistani [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indians love Obama, but call him naive on Pakistan</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/03/15/indians-love-obama-but-call-him-native-on-pakistan/</link>
		<comments>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/03/15/indians-love-obama-but-call-him-native-on-pakistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 03:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Richard L. Benkin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://south-asiaforum.org/?p=758</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[NEW DELHI: On my first day of a visit to India, the media here was pre-occupied with an event they kept describing in horror as â€œshockingâ€ and â€œaudacious.â€ It was a terrorist attack in Lahore, Pakistan on the Sri Lankan cricket team that left eight players with minor injuries.
The story dominated every one of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama, the Middle East and Islam &#8211; An Initial Assessment</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/02/14/obama-the-middle-east-and-islam-an-initial-assessment/</link>
		<comments>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/02/14/obama-the-middle-east-and-islam-an-initial-assessment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Pipes</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://south-asiaforum.org/?p=423</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Why, just two weeks into a 209-week term, assess a new American president&#8217;s record on so esoteric a subject as the Middle East and Islam? In Barack Obama&#8217;s case, because of:
(1) A contradictory record: His background brims over with wild-eyed anti-Zionist radicals such as Ali Abunimah, Rashid Khalidi, and Edward Said, with Islamists, the Nation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan could be Obamaâ€™s Vietnam</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/02/12/afghanistan-could-be-obama%e2%80%99s-vietnam/</link>
		<comments>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/02/12/afghanistan-could-be-obama%e2%80%99s-vietnam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SAF Desk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://south-asiaforum.org/?p=346</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[LONDON, Feb 11: Unless the insurgentsâ€™ advance is halted, Afghanistan will become President Barack Obamaâ€™s Vietnam, fears Col John Nagl, a consultant.
A Daily Telegraph report (War against Taliban â€˜will be lost by autumnâ€™ unless strategy changes) datelined Washington and published on Wednesday quoted Col Nagl, an Iraq veteran who helped devise the strategy, as saying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They will burn their fingers</title>
		<link>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/02/09/they-will-burn-their-fingers/</link>
		<comments>http://south-asiaforum.org/2009/02/09/they-will-burn-their-fingers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amitabh Tripathi</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://south-asiaforum.org/?p=272</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[They will burn their fingers this was first spontaneous reaction I found from an analyst having some academic stake in Middle Eastern affairs about the possibility of success for the mission of George Mitchell special envoy appointed for Middle East from newly elected American president. This reaction was very much in consonance with me as [...]]]></description>
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