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		<title>In Hurricane-Battered Red Hook, Disaster is Breeding Resilience</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2012 17:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Karon / Red Hook, New York City</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Put Some Brightness Into Your Home!&#8221; reads a poster at the entrance to the newly established makeshift FEMA headquarters in Red Hook, the Brooklyn neighborhood devastated by HurricaneSandy. That exhortation might seem tasteless given the fact that most of those coming here for help are residents of the Red Hook Houses, the city&#8217;s largest public housing project, who remain without electricity or heat 11 days after the storm surge. But FEMA didn&#8217;t put that poster there; it was already on the wall when the agency arrived last Thursday to set up shop in the brightly-lit cafeteria of the local IKEA store. Outside in the store&#8217;s parking lot, dozens of women slowly wheel away carts containing crisp new bright-blue IKEA shopping bags full of household supplies. The bags, although not their contents, were donated to the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation, which arrived Friday morning with five U-Haul trucks stacked high with blankets, towels, diapers, toothpaste, canned goods, cleaning materials and other basics collected from the citizens of the Danbury area in Connecticut, as well as MREs. The line of people waiting for help at the Foundation&#8217;s tables against the backdrop of one of the great temples of contemporary American consumption harkens to an iconic Margaret Bourke-White Great Depression photograph, although this crowd is a little more animated, yelling out requests &#8212; &#8220;Toothpaste!&#8221; &#8220;Diapers!&#8221; &#8220;Blankets!&#8221; &#8212; to the volunteers behind the tables who do their best to find the items in the trucks. And they complain to one another, in English and Spanish, of those who linger too long, over-filling carts from what is a finite stockpile of assistance. &#8220;People making us fight like dogs over stuff we need&#8221;, complains Red Hook Houses resident Latoya Barton, as she shepherds her daughter through the crowd. (MORE: Red Hook Apocalypse: How Sandy Undid an Up-and-Coming New York City Neighborhood) It&#8217;s hardly an orderly or systematic effort &#8212; most on this line had been told by their neighbors that they could get some help here, and there&#8217;s no system for ensuring equitable distribution. &#8220;People<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=93580&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">image: Residents displaced by Hurricane Sandy receive food distribution in the Red Hook Houses in Brooklyn, New York on Nov. 9, 2012.</media:title>
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		<title>Red Hook Apocalypse: How Sandy Undid an Up-and-Coming New York City Neighborhood</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 09:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Karon / Red Hook, New York City</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The quirky wooden two-story storefronts of Red Hook&#8217;s Van Brunt Street are more reminiscent of a Cape Cod fishing town than the cookie-cutter architecture of the brownstone, townhouse and housing-project symmetry of the Brooklyn neighborhoods that surround it. And the area&#8217;s idiosyncratic separateness from much of New York City has long been reinforced by it&#8217;s isolation from all the arterial subways that connect Brooklyn with Manhattan and Queens. It&#8217;s that quirkiness as well as the gorgeous views across the harbor — Lady Liberty outside your front window and fresh sea air — that has attracted scores of young hipsters and the associated restaurants, coffee shops, artisanal distilleries and other small businesses of the booming Brooklyn-cuisine scene.  It has also lately attracted some major retail destination stores — Fairway supermarket, in a 19th century coffee warehouse at the water&#8217;s edge, attracts shoppers from throughout the borough on weekends, while a massive Ikea outlet services the whole city — with low water-taxi fees for Manhattanites who want to travel to Red Hook to buy space-saving furniture for their tiny apartments. (MORE: Is Your Subway Line Running?) A ghostly silence hung over the normally bustling Ikea on Wednesday, and a few security personnel were the only people to be seen as gulls soared overhead in the gray skies. The store was largely spared water damage, but without power, no business could be conducted. (The city disconnected Red Hook&#8217;s electricity on Monday night, having ordered the neighborhood&#8217;s residents to evacuate.) On Tuesday morning, the air was thick with the steady thrumming of sump pumps up and down Van Brunt. Most buildings&#8217; basements were flooded, and the arriviste businesses and longtime residents found one another at a kind of block-party-meets-wake cleanup. People counted the cost of Sandy&#8217;s devastation, soldiering on in the knowledge that whatever they had suffered was suffered by their neighbors too. Sometimes it takes a disaster to remind folk that they&#8217;re part of a single community, whether they choose to recognize it or not. Steve Linares, a chef at Fort Defiance, showed TIME<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=91632&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">image: Men dispose of shopping carts full of food damaged by Hurricane Sandy at the Fairway supermarket in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, N.Y., on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012.</media:title>
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		<title>Is the White House Weighing a Military Strike on Iran?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/10/10/is-the-white-house-weighing-a-military-strike-on-iran/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Karon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have some members of the Obama Administration been quaffing a 10-year-old jug of Kool-Aid left in a White House basement fridge by Bush Administration officials? That’s certainly an impression conveyed by one unnamed source briefing Foreign Policy magazine’s David Rothkopf  on talks between the Administration and the Israeli government.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=88575&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Playing to a Draw, at Best?</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/10/03/playing-to-a-draw-at-best/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 11:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Karon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don’t expect to hear about it in the presidential campaign debates, but the U.S. will leave Afghanistan locked in an escalating civil war when it observes the 2014 deadline for withdrawing combat troops set by the Obama Administration — and supported by Gov. Mitt Romney. Washington has known for years that it had no hope of destroying the Taliban, and that it would have to settle for a compromise political solution with an indigenous insurgency that remains sufficiently popular to have survived the longest U.S. military campaign in history. Still, as late as 2009, the U.S. had hoped to set the terms of that compromise, and force the Taliban to find a place for themselves in the constitutional order created by the NATO invasion and accept a Karzai government it has long dismissed as “puppets.” This was the  logic behind President Obama’s “surge,” which sent an additional 30,000 U.S. troops into the Taliban’s heartland, with the express purpose of bloodying the insurgents to the point that their leaders would sue for peace on Washington’s terms. But the surge ended last month with the Taliban less inclined than ever to accept U.S. terms as the 2014 departure date for U.S. forces looms. Full dispatch here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=87528&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who Ends the Libya War, the Rebels or NATO?</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2011/07/14/who-ends-the-libya-war-the-rebels-or-nato/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Karon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like two evenly-matched bantam-weights tiring as they enter the final round of a matchup low on the global strategic undercard in which the crowd has long-since lost interest, NATO and Libya&#8217;s Colonel Muammar Gaddafi are staggering towards the final bell. NATO will keeping jabbing away and win the bout on points, no doubt, but it&#8217;s looking increasingly likely that Gaddafi will leave the ring narrowly beaten, but still on his feet &#8212; probably claiming he was robbed. Of course, NATO itself is ostensibly not a contender in the Libya conflict &#8212; its bombing campaign is supposedly intended simply to protect civilians in the bloody showdown between Gaddafi&#8217;s forces and those of the Benghazi-based rebel leadership who defied the odds to take up arms against the tyrant. But it would be naive to imagine that NATO did not wield the casting vote on when and how the conflict ends, for the simple reason that the rebels are in no position to win &#8212; or even necessarily sustain their gains &#8212; without continuous Western air support. And the Western powers are clearly signaling that they believe its time to end the conflict with a political solution &#8212; one that involves sidelining Gaddafi, but not necessarily his regime. (Some might cynically brand this an &#8220;Egypt solution&#8221;, given the fact that the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak has not exactly removed his regime from power.) Read more<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=53666&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Militants Will Benefit if Pakistan is Blamed for Latest Mumbai Bombing</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2011/07/13/militants-will-benefit-if-pakistan-is-blamed-for-latest-mumbai-bombing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Karon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no reason yet to believe the latest Mumbai terror attacks bear the same signature as the 2008 massacre that left 164 people dead. Wednesday&#8217;s multiple explosions appear from early reports to have involved small-scale and relatively crude bombs, even though they appear to have inflicted substantial casualties. That might point to some local perpetrator, although terror attacks in India almost inevitably raise suspicions of involvement by a Pakistani hand. And, of course, in the case of the Mumbai Massacre, the perpetrators turned out to have been the Pakistani outfit Lashkar e-Taiba (LeT), which was believed by U.S. intelligence to have longstanding links with Pakistan&#8217;s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). There&#8217;s no evidence thus far pointing the finger at any Pakistan-based group &#8212; and any such suspicions, as raised by India&#8217;s Home Ministry in the wake of the bombings, may well prove unfounded. But the political impact of such a strike, were Pakistan to become the focus of suspicion, would play dangerously into the increasingly precarious U.S.-Pakistan relationship. Read more<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=53566&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Obama&#8217;s Military Aid Cut is Unlikely to Change Pakistan&#8217;s Behavior</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2011/07/12/why-obamas-military-aid-cut-is-unlikely-to-change-pakistans-behavior/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Karon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama Administration clearly wants the American public to know it is not allowing Pakistan&#8217;s double game in Afghanistan and on militant jihadists to go unpunished: The New York Times reports that the U.S. is withholding some $800 million &#8212; one third of the aid designated for the Pakistani military &#8212; to send a message that Washington won&#8217;t be taken for a ride. Pakistan continues to allow the Afghan Taliban and related insurgent groups to operate unmolested from its soil against American forces in Afghanistan; it has spent the year pushing to limit CIA operations on its soil (the controversy over CIA contractor Raymond Davis earlier this year having highlighted the deteriorating relationship); and when it turned out that Osama bin Laden had been hiding out in the Pakistani military&#8217;s back yard, possibly with help from within the security establishment, the Pakistani response was to arrest those believed to have helped the U.S. kill the Qaeda leader and to cut back on cooperation with the Americans. The reasons for U.S. exasperation are clear to see &#8212; although they&#8217;re hardly appreciated in Pakistan. Indeed, following the raid on the Abottabad compound where Bin Laden was killed, the Pakistani public &#8212; and, reportedly, even most of the Army&#8217;s mid-level officer corps, were as furious with the country&#8217;s leading generals as were the Americans. Except, the Pakistani public doesn&#8217;t want its military doing more to help the U.S.; it expects its armed forces to break with Washington&#8217;s agenda. And there&#8217;s little reason to expect that a public withdrawal of funds &#8212; explicitly withheld until Pakistan does a better job of meeting U.S. expectations of assistance in its war in Afghanistan &#8212; will have the desired effect. On the contrary, it&#8217;s more likely to accelerate and deepen the parting of ways between Pakistan and the United States. But Pakistani public opinion may be a less important driver of that rift than Pakistan&#8217;s reading of its own national interest. When Washington&#8217;s &#8220;War on Terror&#8221; brought U.S. troops to Afghanistan in late 2001, the Pakistani public<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=53388&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons Learned in Iraq, Afghanistan Dictate That NATO Accept a Compromise in Libya</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tony Karon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This from my Global Spin entry today: As NATO&#8217;s war in Libya entered its 100th day on Monday, an end to the conflict may be in sight &#8212; but not necessarily a decisive one. Military and diplomatic signs point increasingly towards some measure of compromise by both sides in shaping an outcome that neither the regime nor the rebels would have countenanced when their struggle began. (Update: Monday&#8217;s announcement of war-crime indictments by the International Criminal Court in The Hague for Gaddafi, his son Saif al-Islam, and his intelligence chief Abdullah al-Sanussi will complicate efforts to negotiate a political solution, but won&#8217;t necessarily change the overall political-military calculus that points to such an outcome.)&#8230; &#8230;Even if there are weeks of intense fighting ahead, NATO&#8217;s calendar and the shifting diplomatic terrain, as well as the regime&#8217;s resilience after more than three months of pummeling by the Western alliance, suggest that the endgame is afoot. And while NATO clearly needs a rapid solution, it&#8217;s not only the haste prompted by the limits of Western military commitment to Libya that points towards a compromise outcome. The Western experience of regime-change in both Iraq and Afghanistan suggests that any solution that entirely excludes the old regime is a recipe for protracted instability, and possibly even failure. The exclusion of the Ba&#8217;athists and the Sunni base of the old regime from the post-Saddam political order &#8212; and the summary dissolution of the old Iraqi army &#8212; made inevitable an insurgency that has tied down U.S. forces in Iraq for eight years. Those decisions left tens of thousands of men who had been vested in the old order, still well armed and organized, with plenty of incentive to destabilize the new one, in which they had no stake. In Afghanistan, the Taliban were scattered by the U.S. invasion, but not destroyed. As reviled as they were by many in the society, they retained a base in the Pashtun south. And they were excluded from the creation of a new political order, heavily tilted in favor of the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=52403&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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