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	<title>Frank Babb</title>
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		<title>The President&#8217;s (Misstep) or (Right Step) in Syria?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Babb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I feared, the militarists convinced a reluctant president to stick our toe into the Syrian war by providing arms to the rebels. More weapons will only add to the 80,000+ deaths already suffered by the people of Syria. How the president intends to identify the &#8220;good&#8221; rebels from the &#8220;bad&#8221; rebels he didn&#8217;t disclose. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Syria?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2013 18:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Babb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several weeks ago a reader of my blogs suggested that Syria and our intervention in its civil war be the subject of discussion. At the time I agreed it was a possible subject, and then I waited hoping that some good news might surface to offset the daily stream of bad news. The appointments of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The CIA&#8217;s Shift to Spying from Paramilitary Operations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 15:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Babb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama’s speech at the National Defense University last week and Director John Brennan’s appointment several weeks ago of the new head of the CIA’s National Clandestine Service suggests the Agency is shifting its focus from terrorist manhunts, assassinations, drone strikes, and other paramilitary operations to its more traditional spying and strategic analysis. During Mr. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notchtop Mountain: Not the Climb I Expected (part 3 of 3)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 00:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Babb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part 2 was published Saturday May 25: &#160; “I can’t see any broken bones, but you’re pretty bloody.” When I hit the bulge and slid along the wall, the rocks had scraped the skin from my right thigh to below my knee. “Stay here, don’t move, I’ll climb on down and go for help.” That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President Obama&#8217;s Speech on Drone and Counter-Terror Policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 04:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Babb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his speech at the National Defense University, President Obama addressed the issues of drones, counter-terror policies, torture, assassinations, and Guantanamo in a more open manner than he or other presidents have in the past. I was glad he referred early in the speech to a) the trillion+ dollars we’ve spend since 9/11 in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notchtop Mountain: Not the Climb I Expected (part 2 of 3)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 00:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Babb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part 1 was published Thursday May 23: *     *     *      *     * “What are we waiting for?” Pat said. “Let’s go.” She tied into the rope and peered up the wall. I tied the other end of the rope onto my belt. The route went just as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notchtop Mountain: Not the Climb I Expected (part I of 3)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Babb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Notchtop Mountain photograph by Brian Kerls www.fineartamerica.com On a Sunday afternoon in July 1970, my wife Pat and I drove the scenic thirteen miles through the quaking aspen and Douglas-fir forest from our house in Estes Park, Colorado, to Bear Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park.  We’d left Kenilworth, Illinois, on the preceding Friday for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Pilgrimage to the Holy Land</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 03:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Babb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to share with you an article “A Pilgrimage to the Holy Land” my friend and fellow book club member, Galina De Roeck, wrote for the Tikkun Daily following a trip she and other Tuscans made to Israel and Palestine. Her group spent time with Israelis and Palestinians who are affected daily by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching American Democracy in Afghanistan?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 21:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Babb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The CIA’s regular cash payments to Afghanistan’s drug-lord, corrupt President Kazari didn’t surprise me, but I was surprised at the ho-hum attitude of the public and media. Wouldn’t bribes be a possible candidate for budget reduction advocates in Congress? Perhaps the dependency of government officials on major contributions from lobbyists and private interests requesting them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Poetry Contest and a Delightful Afternoon!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 22:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Babb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In November last year Monika Bond, Chair of the Language Arts Committee and a fifth grade teacher at Mountain Vista School in Oracle, AZ, asked me and several other writers to act as judges in the poetry contest she was organizing for students from grades four through eight. On April 2 I drove the forty miles [...]]]></description>
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