<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>the Global Observatory &#187; Foreign Policy</title>
	<atom:link href="http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/category/foreign-policy/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com</link>
	<description>A lot of caustic and sarcastic humor, stupid opinions, canned news and scanty revelations on politics, foreign affairs, social and fiscal issues, and much else from an independent, yet conservative and Republican, perspective from the Pacific Northwest. Yeah, right.</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:48:42 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2</generator>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
			<item>
		<title>Ungrateful Okinawans Want Americans Out</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/04/ungrateful-okinawans-want-americans-out/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/04/ungrateful-okinawans-want-americans-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 23:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>observer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/?p=1858</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Those ungrateful Okinawans want Americans to get out of their &#8220;prefecture.&#8221;
Have they forgetten that we helped free them of their oppressive and militaristic government after WWII and put them on the way to rapid development?
Did we not help modernize Japan and help it become one of the wealthiest countries in the world today?
Have we not [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2010/04/ungrateful-okinawans-want-americans-out/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>My Dearest Comrade Supreme Leader</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/12/my-dearest-comrade-supreme-leader/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/12/my-dearest-comrade-supreme-leader/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>observer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/?p=1306</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My Dearest Comrade Supreme Leader,
I have been such a fan of your work since I was a college student &#8211; it is such an honor to be able to write to your eminence today in my humble role as the President of the United States. Your unfailing ability to maintain a strong and successful Communist [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/12/my-dearest-comrade-supreme-leader/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Afghanistan: Obama Wants To Finish in 1 Year What Hasn&#8217;t Happened in 30</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/12/afghanistan-obama-wants-to-finish-in-1-year-what-hasnt-happened-in-30/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/12/afghanistan-obama-wants-to-finish-in-1-year-what-hasnt-happened-in-30/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>observer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/?p=1265</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[President Barack H. Obama has vowed to fight the &#8220;Al Qaeda Cancer&#8221; by denying it a safe haven in Afghanistan. And, he has vowed to do so within a year of his 2010 troop increase.
Obama says:
[The new troops] will increase our ability to train competent Afghan Security Forces, and to partner with them so that [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/12/afghanistan-obama-wants-to-finish-in-1-year-what-hasnt-happened-in-30/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Iranian Properties Seizure Sought</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/11/iranian-properties-seizure-sought/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/11/iranian-properties-seizure-sought/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>observer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/?p=1209</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The United States should have frozen assets belonging to the Iranian government, and any affiliates, a long time back. In fact, companies with ties to the oppressive Iranian regime shouldn&#8217;t have been allowed to do business in this country, or any other nation for that matter, in the first place.
The federal government is finally seeking [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/11/iranian-properties-seizure-sought/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Hillary Purchases Angolan Diamond Mine</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/08/hillary-purchases-angolan-diamond-mine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/08/hillary-purchases-angolan-diamond-mine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>observer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clinton]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/?p=927</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has purchased an entire diamond mine in  Luanda, Angola, while on her trip to the southern African nation.
The mine was previously controlled by the UNITA rebels, who had waged war against the Angolan government until 2002. The term &#8220;conflict diamonds&#8221; came to exemplify those supplied primarily by mines in [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/08/hillary-purchases-angolan-diamond-mine/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Concealment of Unidentified CIA Program Ordered from Undisclosed Location</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/07/concealment-of-unidentified-cia-program-ordered-from-undisclosed-location/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/07/concealment-of-unidentified-cia-program-ordered-from-undisclosed-location/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>observer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/?p=645</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Central Intelligence Agency withheld information about an unidentified program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from former Vice President Dick Cheney. The concealment orders were issued from an undisclosed location and later confirmed, again, from an undisclosed location.
The report that Mr. Cheney issued the orders from an undisclosed location has deepened the [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/07/concealment-of-unidentified-cia-program-ordered-from-undisclosed-location/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Reducing Nuclear Weapons: What&#8217;s the Point?</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/07/reducing-nuclear-weapons-whats-the-point/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/07/reducing-nuclear-weapons-whats-the-point/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>observer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/?p=500</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Obama is already desperately trying to achieve something of a legacy as Reagan did. But, nuclear weapons reduction by the USA and Russia doesn&#8217;t achieve a thing, really, until China, India, Pakistan, Israel and the other nuclear states agree to cut their stockpiles as well.
With the latest developments in weapons technology, we don&#8217;t need as [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/07/reducing-nuclear-weapons-whats-the-point/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Obama Supports a Future Dictatorship in Honduras</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/06/obama-supports-a-future-dictatorship-in-honduras/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/06/obama-supports-a-future-dictatorship-in-honduras/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>observer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[south america]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/?p=438</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Following another bloodless coup in Honduras, Obama says:
We believe that the coup was not legal and that President Zelaya remains the president of Honduras, the democratically elected president there&#8230;
It would be a terrible precedent if we start moving backwards into the era in which we are seeing military coups as a means of political transition, [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/06/obama-supports-a-future-dictatorship-in-honduras/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Bravo President Obama, Boo Conservatives</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/06/bravo-president-obama-boo-conservatives/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/06/bravo-president-obama-boo-conservatives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>observer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White House]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/?p=146</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is probably the first and last time that the above line appears on this blog. After reading Obama&#8217;s speech at the Azhar in Cairo, I am left wondering why President Bush couldn&#8217;t have given a similar one during his 8 years. Bush was seen as fighting a war against Islam, despite his earnest protestations, [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/06/bravo-president-obama-boo-conservatives/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Obama flip-flops (again) on military tribunals</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/05/obama-flip-flops-again-on-military-tribunals/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/05/obama-flip-flops-again-on-military-tribunals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 14:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>observer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White House]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theglobalobservatory.com/?p=70</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year, I was telling everybody that Barack Hussein Obama was not going to be too different from Bush or McCain on foreign policy or on national security, but I was ridiculed for being naive and uninformed. Now, I feel like saying: &#8220;I told you so.&#8221;
Obama had railed against everything Bush on the campaign trail, [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/05/obama-flip-flops-again-on-military-tribunals/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Obama to exempt CIA torturers?</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/04/obama-to-exempt-cia-torturers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/04/obama-to-exempt-cia-torturers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>observer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CIA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Torture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theglobalobservatory.com/?p=47</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Quite honestly, two of the very few things that Obama has done so far that I have approved of is the ban on torture and other extra-legal procedures of obtaining information, and the proposed closure of Guantanamo. But, both these approvals have to be strongly qualified.
Obama has not banned extraordinary rendition conducted by the CIA [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/04/obama-to-exempt-cia-torturers/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>An end to a dysfunctional policy in Somalia</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/04/an-end-to-a-dysfunctional-policy-in-somalia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/04/an-end-to-a-dysfunctional-policy-in-somalia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 03:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>observer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[piracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[somalia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theglobalobservatory.com/?p=24</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Somalia has been without a functional government since the 1991 revolution against Siad Barre. Numerous warlords fought each other and remnants of the Central Government to gain control, but no one was successful. The UN and the US tried intervening between 1992-95 and failed miserably. An enduring image of this failed operation was the body [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/04/an-end-to-a-dysfunctional-policy-in-somalia/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Just like any other of the 190&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/04/just-like-any-other-of-the-190/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/04/just-like-any-other-of-the-190/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>observer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theglobalobservatory.com/?p=16</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of Great Britain, was treated like any reliable ally of the United States ought to be : just like any of the 190 other nations in the world, with a DVD box set of popular Hollywood movies, with Region 1 encoding, unplayable anywhere outside the US. No private dinners, no Camp [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.theglobalobservatory.com/2009/04/just-like-any-other-of-the-190/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>

