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  <title>Why John Bolton doesn't understand self-interest.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Nominating John Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations is a little like nominating Jeffrey Dahmer for surgeon general. You might think that Bolton's manifest antipathy toward the U.N. would have been enough to sink his nomination. But Bolton's supporters have turned the issue around. They say that the problem isn't U.N. haters, but swooning U.N. lovers, people who would gladly surrender American sovereignty to creeping global governance—and that Bolton is just the hard-nosed guardian of American interests to confront this peril.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2120437/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Robert Wright</author>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 7 Jun 2005 18:52:42 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Democratizing Iraq, piece by piece.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Iraq is mired in a Catch-22. The country is unstable because the government lacks legitimacy. The government lacks legitimacy because it wasn't elected. And you can't have elections because the country is unstable.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2100018/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 6 May 2004 12:50:24 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Can this Pentagon handle the peace?</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  You can chart Donald Rumsfeld's waning confidence in the American war plan by his changing description of its authorship.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2080976/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Robert Wright</author>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 1 Apr 2003 12:18:38 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>What you should and shouldn't worry about as we go to war.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Brace yourself for a round of I-told-you-so's from Iraq hawks. And blame it partly on Iraq doves. In trying to head off war, some doves have warned of nightmarish consequences that are in fact not all that likely, thus setting the stage for a postwar public relations triumph by hawks. That's too bad because for every dubious nightmare scenario there's a more valid and equally harrowing worry about the effects of the coming war.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2080322/?from=rss">more ...</a>]<!--AD BEGIN--><br clear="all" /><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=5445" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=5445" border="0" vspace="5" /></a><!--AD END-->  ]]></description>
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  <author>Robert Wright</author>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2003 12:25:36 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Powell's evidence shouldn't mean war.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Iraq hawks are troubled by the failure of some Americans to fall in line behind President Bush after Wednesday's impressive performance by Colin Powell. Now that Powell has so clearly shown that Iraq has illegal weapons, they ask, how could anyone argue for continuing United Nations weapons inspections, rather than just fast forwarding to war? Actually, it's not as hard as you'd think.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2078269/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Robert Wright</author>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 7 Feb 2003 13:02:19 EST</pubDate>
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