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	<title>John C. Bersia: Unraveling Global Issues of Today &#038; Tomorrow &#187; Barack Obama</title>
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		<title>Obama’s future? More on foreign policy and an almost inevitable re-election bid</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Wayne, the author of a forthcoming book on President Barack Obama, &#8220;Personality and Politics: Obama For and Against Himself&#8221;, specializes in the American presidency at Georgetown University. He discussed with McClatchy-Tribune foreign-affairs columnist John C. Bersia the Obama administration’s prospects for the next two years.

Q: What did Obama’s 2011 State of the Union address [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To succeed, a president has to be both loved and feared</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Wayne, a Georgetown University expert on the American presidency, has written 11 books, including &#8220;The Road to the White House.&#8221; He discussed with McClatchy-Tribune foreign-affairs columnist John C. Bersia the firing of Afghanistan war commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal because of statements critical of the Obama administration that he and others made in Rolling Stone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s one-year report card</title>
		<link>http://www.johncbersia.com/2010/01/18/obamas-one-year-report-card/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the Obama administration enters its second year, evaluations range from the extremely positive to the exceedingly negative. Looking for a balanced, informed perspective from a veteran presidential-studies specialist, I turned to Georgetown University&#8217;s Stephen J. Wayne, the author of &#8220;The Road to the White House 2008&#8243; and a forthcoming book on President Barack Obama.

What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A wake-up call to get serious about security</title>
		<link>http://www.johncbersia.com/2009/11/30/a-wake-up-call-to-get-serious-about-security/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The uninvited-guest problem at President Barack Obama&#8217;s recent White House state dinner strikes me as more than a mere security lapse. If we were living in a perfect world and no existential threat to the United States presented itself, a publicity-seeking party-crasher at such an event might be dismissed as a minor concern, even an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Effects of climate change can now be seen in Africa</title>
		<link>http://www.johncbersia.com/2009/07/13/effects-of-climate-change-can-now-be-seen-in-africa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama&#8217;s ominous warning about climate change stayed in my mind long after his historic address to Ghana&#8217;s Parliament was over. He was correct in noting that a warming planet will spread disease, shrink water resources and deplete crops, creating conditions that contribute to the spread of famine and conflict. Still, as he optimistically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too soon to offer assessment on Obama</title>
		<link>http://www.johncbersia.com/2009/05/18/too-soon-to-offer-assessment-on-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 17:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &#8212; Instead of looking for what the Obama administration accomplished in the first 100 days or what it might achieve in the next 100, we should focus on the longer term. The 1,000-day mark interests me far more than the sprouts of the administration&#8217;s early seeds.

That said, after spending a week immersed in high-level [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slavery still exists, and Obama needs to address it</title>
		<link>http://www.johncbersia.com/2009/05/08/slavery-still-exists-and-obama-needs-to-address-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 17:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. &#8211; Facing the old slave market from the sea, you can try to imagine what it was like to arrive here as a captive in the 1500s, with a future of forced servitude as your fate. You can try, but you can never grasp the totality of the horror. In those long-gone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. foreign policy is headed on right and pragmatic course</title>
		<link>http://www.johncbersia.com/2009/04/13/us-foreign-policy-is-headed-on-right-and-pragmatic-course/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter W. Galbraith, the author of The End of Iraq and Unintended Consequences: How War in Iraq Strengthened America&#8217;s Enemies, formerly served as a U.S. ambassador to Croatia. He discussed global challenges for the United States with foreign-affairs columnist John C. Bersia.

Q: What is your critique of American foreign policy? 
A: The problem with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The beginning of a positive U.S.-India relationship</title>
		<link>http://www.johncbersia.com/2009/04/02/the-beginning-of-a-positive-us-india-relationship/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johncbersia.com/2009/04/02/the-beginning-of-a-positive-us-india-relationship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The future of the United States and India, in broad terms, beckons largely from the same direction. Thus, it was encouraging to learn that a substantive meeting between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India in London recently went well. Obama called India a critical partner, and Singh described the president as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A fresh approach to national security</title>
		<link>http://www.johncbersia.com/2009/02/09/a-fresh-approach-to-national-security/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is the Obama administration&#8217;s plan to revamp the U.S. approach to national security drawing criticism before it even gains momentum?
If anything, the overhaul &#8211; which National Security Adviser James Jones will supervise &#8211; is past due. The global realm continues to evolve in major and often unanticipated ways; strategies must keep pace. As Jones [...]]]></description>
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