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		<title>Ten Years After: A National Disgrace</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
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		<title>Is Iran a Bigger Threat than North Korea?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama has committed to preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, by military force if necessary. Last year, he told Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic, “As President of the United States, I don’t bluff.” But why should anyone believe him when North Korea has gone nuclear with impunity? It’s an uncomfortable question for the Administration, at a particularly bad moment. North Korea’s third nuclear test, confirmed overnight by its KCNA news agency, comes just as the U.S. is entering a new round of diplomacy with Iran. Talks are scheduled between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency this week; negotiations between Iran, the U.S. and other world powers will take place on Feb. 26 in Kazakhstan. Expectations are low for both talks, but at the least the Administration is hoping to push back further into the future any possible military action against the Iranian nuclear program. A harder line by Tehran in the wake of the North Korean test could move things in the wrong direction. But current and former Administration officials argue the two situations are different and that Iran would be making a mistake to see strength in North Korea’s defiance of international sanctions and its abandonment of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Administration officials admit that they have adopted a policy of containing a nuclear North Korea, even as they say Pyongyang&#8217;s program is &#8220;unacceptable,&#8221; but they say there’s no way they would cave in to containing Iran if Tehran went nuclear. They explain their position like this: First, containing a nuclear North Korea, as the U.S. contained Russia in the Cold War, is possible. Containing a nuclear Iran is not. Japan and South Korea accept the U.S. nuclear umbrella to protect them, thereby preventing a regional arms race that could lead to nukes all over Asia. In the Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey are unlikely to accept U.S. guarantees of protection against a nuclear Iran, so would pursue their own programs. That would mean a region that is already prone to conflict suddenly<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=87778&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Tragic Death of a U.S. Army Psychologist</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2013/01/11/dr-peter-j-n-linnerooth-1970-2013/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>

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		<title>Eleven Years in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/10/07/eleven-years-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2012 14:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday marks the beginning of the U.S. military‘s 12th year in Afghanistan. It ain’t quite the Hundred Years’ War, but 12 years is 20% of this particular Battleland correspondent’s life.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=79639&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Latest Column</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/05/24/latest-column-92/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 13:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On what we should learn from 11 years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=71288&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>At NATO Summit, Obama Seeks Clean Break from Afghanistan Conflict</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/05/21/only-one-year-of-u-s-led-fighting-left/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 14:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama’s goal at the NATO summit this week is looking increasingly clear: wrap up U.S. troops’ combat role over the coming year, and get the allies to pay more money to enable the Afghan military to fill the gap. All signs are that NATO will agree to the first of those two goals Monday in Chicago.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=71174&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Politicization of bin Laden&#8217;s Killing: A Sad Anniversary Celebration</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/05/02/a-sad-anniversary-celebration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 14:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s sad that what should be a day of quiet satisfaction – the anniversary of the death of Osama bin Laden, the killer of nearly 3,000 innocents – has degenerated into a political spitball fight. We well remember Jimmy Carter’s failed mission to rescue the U.S. hostages held by Iran’s government in Tehran 30 years aqo. It led to some serious soul-searching, and ultimately — over the Pentagon’s objections — to the creation of the U.S. Special Operations Command. A generation later, that command helped lead the raid that got bin Laden. For those of us who covered the loss of eight brave Americans at Desert One on April 24, 1980, the Abbottabad mission was a bold exclamation point on all the work that had been done to fix, more or less, what the Iranian fiasco exposed.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=70290&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Lessons of Bosnia</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/04/05/the-lessons-of-bosnia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our photo site, LightBox, has a powerful collection of images by some of the world&#8217;s best photojournalists from the Bosnian War, which began 20 years ago this month. I wrote the following brief observation to accompany the spread: If the last lines of the 20th century were written in Moscow in December 1991 with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the prelude to the 21st century was written months later—and 20 years ago this month—in Bosnia’s capital, Sarajevo, as the disorderly break-up of Yugoslavia turned into genocide. In that bloody April, America’s moment of triumph over totalitarianism was transformed into a tribalist nightmare as Bosnian Serbs, determined to seize large parts of Bosnia as part of a plan to create a Greater Serbia, targeted Muslims for extermination. What some at the time hoped was just a communist death-rattle at the periphery of the Soviet empire, now looks like the birth cries of our current geopolitical reality. In Bosnia the U.S. learned it would preside over a world where borders and ideology mattered less and transnational allegiances of ethnicity and sectarianism mattered more. Interviewed by TIME in August 1995, weeks after his troops had slaughtered more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys near the town of Srebrenica, Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic, now on trial for war crimes at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at The Hague, declared he was acting out of fear of a new Islamic push through the Balkans to Europe. “By this demographic explosion Muslims are overflowing not only the cradle of Christianity in the Balkans but have left their tracks even in the Pyrenees,” Mladic said. As the slaughter unfolded in Bosnia, and Europe and the U.S. belatedly mustered the will to stop it, Western attitudes towards the post-Cold War world took shape, as well. Neoconservatives and hawkish Democrats found common cause in humanitarian intervention. The media and the public learned from the NATO action in August and September 1995 and the Dayton peace agreement in November that American military might could impose<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=68945&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Years Is Enough: Time for an Endgame in Aghanistan</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/03/22/ten-years-is-enough-time-for-an-endgame-in-aghanistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In the Arena]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For my print column this week, which TIME subscribers can find here, I decided to check in with some of the military veterans I wrote about last summer my &#8220;New Greatest Generation&#8221; cover story&#8211;especially the sergeants&#8211;to see how they were reacting to the news of the alleged massacre perpetrated by Staff Sergeant Robert Bales. Not surprisingly, they were disturbed by headlines like &#8220;Sergeant Psycho&#8221; and the deepening, and outrageous, stereotype that most veterans coming back from the wars are damaged or unstable. But there was also a near-unanimous consensus that the war in Afghanistan had gone on too long and should be wound down as quickly as possible. Eric Greitens, the former Navy SEAL who runs The Mission Continues, which gives fellowships to returning veterans who have good ideas for public service, said that at the very least, the Obama Administration owes the troops a clearer explanation of what the mission now is. I&#8217;d go farther than that. For more than a year now, I&#8217;ve favored a more rapid draw-down than Obama has proposed, which would have most combat troops out of Afghanistan by this time next year. A residual force should be left, if the Afghans agree, to help train and support the Afghan National Army, and also to continue special operations and surveillance of the Taliban areas on the Af/Pakistan border. (If the Afghans don&#8217;t agree, these operations can be conducted, in a more limited way, from ships in the Indian Ocean.) With the near-destruction of Al Qaeda, our troops are sitting in the midst of a civil war between the southern Pashtuns and a melange of Northern ethnic groups that has been going on, intermittently, for centuries. Our only interest in this fight is to make sure that the Taliban don&#8217;t retake Kabul&#8211;and I suspect that the amped-up Afghan National Army, which is primary composed of non-Pashtuns, will be more than happy to carry that fight. But that is not a fight worth the sacrifice of one more American life, limb or mind. It&#8217;s time to bring<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=68014&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Afghan Reality</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2012/03/01/afghan-reality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two more Americans were killed today in Afghanistan&#8211;in Zhari district, just outside Kandahar, a place I know well, having embedded twice with U.S. units there. This has become business as usual in Afghanistan, especially since U.S. troops accidentally burned some Qurans a few weeks ago. It is, of course, infuriating. And it raises a larger question: why are we still hanging around there, now that Osama bin Laden is dead and Al Qaeda pretty much obliterated? Fareed Zakaria gets it right in this column today. We have two remaining national interests in Afghanistan. The first is the terrorist breeding ground across the Pakistani border. The second is a moral commitment to prevent the Taliban from retaking the entire country. I suspect that the latter is easier to handle than the former: As Zakaria notes, the Afghan National Army is, essentially, the old Northern Alliance on steroids. We are the steroids. And while I&#8217;m not sure that a continuing investment of $12 billion a year for the ANA is feasible, we can certainly stay involved on some level of funding and training&#8211;and it&#8217;s a pretty safe bet that the non-Pashtuns who make up 90% of the ANA will be more than happy to continue their centuries-long fight against the Pashtuns, and prevent the Taliban from retaking Kabul. (It would be nice if Pakistan stopped funding the Taliban, but that seems a remote possibility at the moment.) Aside from this military support, we should have as little as possible to do with the corrupt and incompetent Karzai government. (MORE: Crunch Time for Defense Authorization and Military Detention) The more difficult goal is to keep monitoring, and attacking, the terrorist training bases in the Afghan-Pakistan borderlands. It would be nice if we could keep a presence at Kandahar Air Field, and run drones and special operations from there. But that may no longer be possible in the long term, either. I&#8217;m not sure of the logistics, but this mission might be undertaken, in a more limited way, from our naval presence in the Indian<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=66949&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are We at a &#8216;Tipping Point&#8217; in Afghanistan?</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/02/28/tipping-point/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So just how close to the tipping point – that’s the phase heard most over the past several days – is the U.S.-led military mission in Afghanistan? Not close, according to the Obama Administration. Remember, this was the “good war” – justifiable in 9/11′s wake, unlike the invasion of Iraq two years later. So Administration officials were peddling it that way on Monday, following a week of riots and the killing of four U.S. troops after American soldiers at Bagram apparently mistakenly tossed Korans into a trash fire.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=66678&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reduced U.S. Role in Afghanistan: Politics, By Other Means</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2012/02/02/reduced-u-s-role-in-afghanistan-politics-by-other-means/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s statement Wednesday that the U.S. plans to hand off all combat missions in Afghanistan sometime in 2013 has triggered howls from hawks who maintain it’s a step down a slippery slope headed to defeat. They may have a point. Nonetheless, the Obama Administration has plainly decided that its goals are better served by a calendar-driven pullout from Afghanistan.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=65158&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s War: U.S. Casualities in Afghanistan By Year</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011/12/02/afghanistan-looks-like-victory-from-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<title>Who Lost Iraq?</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011/10/31/59502/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The debate over Iraq&#8217;s future – hopeful, according to the Obama Administration, hopeless, according to its critics – has begun in earnest. It was kicked off by the Administration&#8217;s recent decision that all U.S. troops will be home for the holidays. The White House blames Iraq&#8217;s parliament, which has refused to grant U.S. troops the standard immunity from local prosecution they get from host governments around the world when they are based away from home (U.S. troublemakers in uniform overseas are dealt with under the U.S. Uniform Code of Military Justice). Critics insist if the Administration had put more muscle into the fight, it could have keep thousands of U.S. troops in Iraq into 2012 to maintain stability and keep an eye on neighboring Iran. Maybe, maybe not, according to folks inside the U.S. government. Early volleys in the &#8220;who lost Iraq&#8221; debate – reminiscent of the &#8220;who lost China&#8221; spit-fest 60 years ago – have been lobbed in recent days.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=58786&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One in Three</title>
		<link>http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011/10/05/one-in-three/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thirty-four percent, to be precise. That&#8217;s how many veterans believe the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were worth fighting, according to a new and dispiriting – but not surprising – Pew Research Center poll. Americans prefer wars like the first Gulf War – 100 days of bombing, followed by 96 hours of ground combat, then a victory parade in D.C. &#8212; not wars like Afghanistan: 100 hours of bombing, followed by 10 years on the ground, and counting. The poll failed to figure out why the nation&#8217;s leaders don&#8217;t grasp this fact.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=57435&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Libya Falling: A Less-Costly American-led Way of Waging War</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/08/22/libya-falling-a-less-costly-american-led-way-of-waging-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the U.S. was able to spearhead the imminent collapse of Muammar Gaddafi&#8217;s regime in Libya on the cheap. We launched full-fledged invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq against murderous tyrants, but elected not to do the same in Libya. Is this a new template for U.S. wars, or just an acknowledgment of a war-weary nation? It&#8217;s a little of both, actually. President Obama, who was elected, in part, to help wind down those two post-9/11 wars, had no desire to begin a third. But he was willing to help NATO and the Arab League by providing a precision-guided attacks in the Libyan war&#8217;s first two weeks, before taking a decidedly back seat for the next five months. Read on at Battleland.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=54800&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Next Greatest Generation</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/08/18/the-next-greatest-generation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a way, I&#8217;ve been working on this week&#8217;s cover story&#8211;which sadly resides behind the Time paywall&#8211;for the past five years, as I&#8217;ve embedded with our troops downrange. Watching them in the field, I&#8217;ve noticed that they&#8217;ve had to learn some new and unusual skills&#8211;skills that are extremely well-suited for public service. We hear a lot about the troops who come home suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder; we hear about the suicides and domestic violence. We hear about the unemployment and homelessness. All of which is sad and true But there&#8217;s another side to the story&#8230; (PHOTOS: Veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan Bring Their Leadership Skills Home) Take John Gallina and Dale Beatty, for example. They were best friends in the the North Carolina national guard&#8211;and they nearly died together when their humvee was blown up by an anti-tank mine. Dale lost both his legs; John suffered a traumatic brain injury. When the local homebuilders association offered to build Dale a home, both John and Dale helped out&#8211;and found real satisfaction in the work. They decided to start building homes for other handicapped veterans&#8211;and Purple Heart Homes was born. I spent the past few months traveling around the country, finding veterans who are using the skills they learned in Iraq and Afghanistan for the betterment of their communities. Any given rifle company Captain had to be, in effect, the mayor of a town in Iraq or Afghanistan&#8211;and had to develop political skills like the ability to deal with local shuras [councils of elders], the ability to find out from the local population what sort of construction projects they favored, the ability to put people to work on those projects with a minimum of fuss&#8230;as well as the ability to make important decisions under incredible pressure. (VIDEO: Heroic Images: TIME Meets the New Greatest Generation) Some of them are Rhodes Scholars and graduates of elite universities.Former Army Captain Wes Moore, a phi beta kappa graduate of Johns Hopkins went back to his home town of Baltimore, and their started a mentoring program<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=54585&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Military Legacy of David Petraeus</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/08/11/the-military-legacy-of-david-petraeus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Sorensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When David Petraeus retires from the Army at the end of this month to take the helm at the CIA, he&#8217;ll leave behind a radically different fighting force from what existed even a decade ago. As Joe writes in this week&#8217;s issue of TIME, Petraeus, the intellectual force behind the counter-insurgency campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, leaves a lasting mark on the armed forces that has less to do with the mixed results COIN has produced, and more to do with a military that is better trained to handle the chaotic and culturally complex conflicts of the 21st century. A taste: Petraeus was acting on what he calls a &#8220;really big idea&#8221;: full-spectrum warfare, which added COIN to the mix of traditional offensive and defensive operations. At Fort Leavenworth, home to a required one-year graduate-school program for majors, Petraeus added courses in COIN and Islamic culture, plus a Pashtu- or Arabic-language elective, to the traditional curriculum in strategy, tactics and logistics. &#8220;We did that throughout the Army,&#8221; Petraeus says. &#8220;Every soldier gets that now. To read the whole thing, pick up a copy of the magazine on newsstands Friday or subscribe to read online.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=54242&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Seal Team Six</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/08/08/seal-team-six/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 14:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Klein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been trying to figure out how best to celebrate and mourn the members of Seal Team Six and our Afghan allies who were shot down in a Chinook helicopter last week. Hugh Hewitt does it well here. And I would add: those who would see this tragedy as another opportunity to make political points, on either side&#8211;please don&#8217;t. Not that those arguments aren&#8217;t worth making; indeed, they are crucial to the national discussion we&#8217;re now having about how and where we use our resources. But linking this tragedy to the larger policy issues would desecrate those we lost. In my experience, I&#8217;ve found Seals to be extremely mission-centric&#8211;they have to be given the difficulty of the missions they&#8217;re asked to perform&#8211;and not given to blowsy arguments about the big picture. Those who died understood that risking death was part of the bargain they made for doing the work they loved. They loved working in the most difficult circumstances to protect our security. They saw their work as an honor and a privilege.  Each of them was, by definition, extraordinary. In the coming weeks, I&#8217;ll have a lot more to say about the young men and women in our armed forces, and the remarkable qualities they bring to what they do. For all the yellow ribbons and reflexive &#8220;Thanks for your service,&#8221; most Americans really don&#8217;t understand how the asymmetric wars we&#8217;ve been fighting these past 10 years have changed the nature of the skills needed for soldiering and the dangers our troops face, and the creative, entrepreneurial skills they&#8217;ve brought to this new way of warfare.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=54038&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cheney&#8217;s Lawyer Gives Obama Advice on War Powers</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2011/06/24/cheneys-lawyer-gives-obama-advice-on-war-powers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo Calabresi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[House Speaker John Boehner has joined forces in an odd coalition with the left to declare President Obama’s continued military action in Libya a dangerous and potentially unconstitutional power grab because Obama failed to consult Congress sufficiently about the mission. Boehner is moving a bill today that will attempt to force Obama to end the mission by cutting off its funds. But Boehner&#8217;s fellow Republican, David Addington, who was Dick Cheney’s chief of staff and the lawyer behind many of the most controversial and aggressive legal positions taken by the Bush White House, says Congress is the one making the power grab and that Obama&#8217;s mistake is that he has been too weak in resisting the Hill. “Is it constitutional for the Congress, by passing a law, namely the War Powers Resolution, to command the President of the United States to withdraw military forces? In my view, no,” Addington said in an interview this week with TIME. Under Article 2 of the Constitution, the president has broad powers as commander-in-chief over the military. Addington admits that no president has been willing to explicitly tell Congress to stuff the War Powers Resolution. “No president has just written down in plain English and mailed off to the Congress, &#8216;Look, this thing is unconstitutional. Forget it,&#8217;” Addington says. &#8220;They always use that fancy &#8216;this is not inconsistent with the war powers resolution,&#8217; or &#8216;this is consistent with it.&#8217;&#8221; But Addington thinks the President has tied himself in knots by deciding not to confront Congress. &#8220;There’s only two ways out of this. One is to say the War Powers Act doesn’t apply. The other is to say it applies, but it&#8217;s unconstitutional,&#8221; says Addington. Obama chose to go with the argument, provided by State Department and White House Counsel lawyers, that the War Powers Resolution didn&#8217;t apply because U.S. troops are not engaged in the &#8220;hostilities&#8221; the act requires be authorized after 60 days. That&#8217;s hard to believe, since the U.S. is engaged in both manned and unmanned strikes against Libya and stands ready<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swampland.time.com&#038;blog=5284847&#038;post=50915&#038;subd=timeswampland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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