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	<title>The Feehery Theory &#187; Iraq</title>
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		<title>The Limits of Libertarianism</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/07/29/the-limits-of-libertarianism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like to call myself a Libertarian, but I am really not.
I don&#8217;t really want government to disappear.  While I read The Fountainhead in college, and I admit I have found it to be influential in my life, I think Ayn Rand was a little kooky and her objectivism philosophy is unworkable in the real [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Afghan War</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/06/23/the-afghan-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3127</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[President Obama took 13 minutes to say something he could have said in 30 seconds.  He is taking 10,000 troops out of Afghanistan immediately and plans to take out 30,000 or so more by the end of the year.
The rest of the speech was pure puffery, told with some dramatic flair, and with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Short Term, Long Term</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2011/06/08/short-term-long-term/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 17:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bad Decisions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial Crisis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Presidential election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=3070</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the short term, the economy might dip back into a recession, which means that our debt picture in the long term gets only worse.
In the short term, it sure is fun to make fun of Anthony Weiner.  In the long term, do we really want to kick out members of Congress because of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Faces of Janus</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/11/30/two-faces-of-janus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=2394</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Janus is a fascinating mythical figure.   He is honored at the beginning of each year, although most people don’t know it, because January is named after him.
According to Wikipedia:  “He was frequently used to symbolize change and transitions such as the progression of past to future, of one condition to another, of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It’s Complicated</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/11/23/it%e2%80%99s-complicated/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/11/23/it%e2%80%99s-complicated/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=2376</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every once in a while, as I peruse my Facebook friends, I run across a friend who has put “It’s complicated” in their relationship status.
It’s a phrase that neatly sums up the world we are now living in.
The economy is complicated.  Some sectors are doing swell, others are in the deepest of depressions.
Sex is more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama’s Cruelest Month</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/09/07/obama%e2%80%99s-cruelest-month/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/09/07/obama%e2%80%99s-cruelest-month/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.”  &#8211; T.S. Eliot&#8211;The Wasteland
Had T.S. Elliot just witnessed the August endured by the Obama Administration, he might have changed his opinion of the cruelest month.  Because, politically, for Democrats, this August has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turn the Page</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/08/31/turn-the-page/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

The President said he wanted to turn the page on Iraq.
I wonder how that makes the Iraqis feel.  My guess is that they are saying, “wait, this chapter isn’t done yet!”  About the only Iraqi who wants us out is that Sadr character, who is just looking for a way to grab power for himself.
It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq, Bush and the Upcoming Campaign</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/08/19/iraq-bush-and-the-upcoming-campaign/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/08/19/iraq-bush-and-the-upcoming-campaign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/?p=1883</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was talking to my good friend Alex Mistri, a man who spent a year working for the military and the State Department in Iraq, and I asked him what he thought about departure of combat troops from that beleaguered country.
He told me he was deeply ambivalent. He wished that the president had a just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Guard Or a New National Drug Policy</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/04/27/national-guard-or-a-new-national-drug-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/04/27/national-guard-or-a-new-national-drug-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I turned on Fox News and watched Laura Ingraham interviewing a State Senator from Illinois.  The State Senator wants to call out the National Guard to patrol the streets of Chicago, which has been enduring a running gun fight for months now in the city’s toughest neighborhoods.  Laura asked a simple question:  Why can’t the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Iraq Elections</title>
		<link>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/03/08/the-iraq-elections/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefeeherytheory.com/2010/03/08/the-iraq-elections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Feehery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It wasn’t as exciting as the first time that Iraq held democratic elections, but it was probably more significant.
I asked my friend Alex Mistri, who spent a year in Iraq working at the highest levels of the American government, what these elections mean to him.
He told me two things.
First, Iraq is slowly but surely becoming [...]]]></description>
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