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	<title>Future Atlas &#187; Afghanistan</title>
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		<title>Afghanistan: Does It Matter?</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2011/06/23/afghanistan-does-it-matter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2011/06/23/afghanistan-does-it-matter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama&#8217;s drawdown of US forces in Afghanistan is a step toward addressing a large gap between US effort in Afghanistan &#8212; we are now spending a trillion dollars a decade in immediate costs alone &#8212; and the actual importance of Afghanistan.  As Richard Haass put it on &#8220;Charlie Rose&#8221; yesterday, there is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Linked Conflicts from the Caucasus to Central Asia</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/16/linked-conflicts-from-the-caucasus-to-central-asia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/16/linked-conflicts-from-the-caucasus-to-central-asia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Uzbekistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in Foreign Policy, Paul Quinn-Judge outlines a scenario in which &#8220;the fighters of the Caucasus Emirate link up with their jihadi allies in Central Asia, turning much of the southern rim of the former Soviet Union into a zone of low-intensity warfare.&#8221;
He writes that &#8220;The absolute worst-case scenario &#8212; a gradual linking-up of insurgents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Alternative Strategy for Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/14/an-alternative-strategy-for-afghanistan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/14/an-alternative-strategy-for-afghanistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Analyst Andrew Bacevich questioned the US strategy in Afghanistan on NPR&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Edition&#8221; today.
We don&#8217;t need to fix Afghanistan and the world, he said; we simply need to defend the US.  The American interest in Afghanistan is limited to insuring &#8220;that Afghanistan does not become a sanctuary for a large number of jihadists plotting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Skepticism on US Afghan Plans</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/11/skepticism-on-us-afghan-plans/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/11/skepticism-on-us-afghan-plans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On &#8220;Fresh Air&#8221; on NPR, Charles Sennott said today that the US plan for Afghanistan does not look like a plausible route to success.
The US and allied force ratios are not right for a vast, rural country such as Afghanistan, he said.
On the Taliban, Sennott said that its leadership shows a range of outlooks, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Armageddon in Islamabad&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/27/armageddon-in-islamabad/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/27/armageddon-in-islamabad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Sunni extremist takeover of Pakistan would be an immense threat to the US and hard to counter, Bruce Reidel writes in The National Interest.
Such a takeover
would create the greatest threat the United States has yet to face in its war on terror. Pakistan as an Islamic-extremist safe haven would bolster al-Qaeda’s capabilities tenfold. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Taliban on the March</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2008/12/28/the-taliban-on-the-march/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2008/12/28/the-taliban-on-the-march/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Taliban insurgency continues to hold the momentum in Afghanistan.
The AP reports that they are setting up shadow governmental structures within 30 miles of Kabul, increasingly replacing those of the official, Western-backed government.
US officials quotes in the article downplay this and ascribe Taliban success to intimidation, but a tribal elder in one province asserts that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan: a &#8220;deteriorating&#8221; situation</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/11/30/afghanistan-a-deteriorating-situation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/11/30/afghanistan-a-deteriorating-situation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Post reported last week that American intelligence analysts are worried about a &#8220;looming strategic failure.&#8221;
Intelligence analysts acknowledge the battlefield victories, but they highlight the Taliban&#8217;s unchallenged expansion into new territory, an increase in opium poppy cultivation and the weakness of the government of President Hamid Karzai as signs that the war effort is deteriorating.
US [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Experts: the future of Afghanistan&#8217;s Taliban</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/06/17/experts-the-future-of-afghanistans-taliban/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/06/17/experts-the-future-of-afghanistans-taliban/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2007 15:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this month&#8217;s Atlantic, 44 experts were polled about the trajectory of the extremist Taliban movement.  Asked to evaluate the likelihood of the Taliban&#8217;s returning to power by 2012, they gave these responses:

45% &#8212; unlikely
27% &#8212; somewhat likely
18% &#8212; more and more likely
9% &#8212; nonexistent

Some specific forecasts by the experts:

&#8220;The Taliban is likely to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Middle East remapped</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2006/10/16/the-middle-east-remapped/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2006/10/16/the-middle-east-remapped/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ralph Peters recently offered a map of how the Middle East might look if borders were redrawn to better reflect sectarian and ethnic divides.  (Click on &#8220;Next&#8221; under the map, then click on the map to enlarge.)
Among the changes that would unfold in this scenario:

Kurdistan becomes a large, independent state, at the expense of Turkey, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan: trend &#8212; Taliban rising</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2006/06/28/afghanistan-trend-taliban-rising/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2006/06/28/afghanistan-trend-taliban-rising/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2006 03:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The situation in Afghanistan continues to deteriorate.
On NPR today Ahmed Rashid suggested that the Taliban insurgents are finding rising &#8220;sympathy,&#8221; if not full support, among segments of the population. They now enlist thousands of fighters, far more than they did a few years ago.
They also seem to be broadening their areas of operations.  Rashid [...]]]></description>
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