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		<title>Against Galt</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/30/against-galt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Synova wrote a little post that gets halfway to where I would come down on this perennial parlor game of  the John Galt general strike. Sy recognized that to be successful, such a revolt would realistically be a miserable experience &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/30/against-galt/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The New Russian Diplomacy of Profanity</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/12/the-new-russian-diplomacy-of-profanity/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/12/the-new-russian-diplomacy-of-profanity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russian FM Sergei Lavrov reportedly went berserk on David Miliband in phone discussions over the Georgia war. Apparently he was raving, shouting obscenities, and ridiculing Miliband&#8217;s knowledge of history. There&#8217;s something incredibly deranged about that government. They&#8217;ve taken the traditional &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/12/the-new-russian-diplomacy-of-profanity/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>So Very LP</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/so-very-lp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s this? Bob Barr wanted Ronpaul as his veep? Take your eyes off the Libertarian Party for a minute and you miss a lot of foolishness. Our old friend Steve Newton fills us in on the amusing drama that ensued &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/so-very-lp/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Clear Blue Sky</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/a-clear-blue-sky/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(NASA) Today is the 11th. The unwelcome anniversary. Everyone remembers where they were when they heard. I was awoken by a phone call on the day. &#8220;The country&#8217;s under attack!&#8221; the phone said. You wake up rather fast when that&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/a-clear-blue-sky/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Declinism as Exceptionalism</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/02/declinism-as-exceptionalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Francis Fukuyama argues in the Financial Times that the United States should have traded European missile defense and/or Kosovar independence in order to pacify a resurgent Russia. This strange proposal of strategic charity work for the Kremlin, is animated by &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/02/declinism-as-exceptionalism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>[Insert] War</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/02/insert-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Barnett takes a look at Gates and the different schools of thought on Pentagon spending priorities. Apparently it comes down to the Next War vs. the Long War vs. the This War vs. the Big War vs. Proxy War. &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/02/insert-war/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-Palin Hysteria Expands, Degenerates</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/31/anti-palin-hysteria-expands-degenerates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m beginning to sense that anti-Palin hysteria is building toward a collective psychological meltdown of truly epic proportions on the Democratic side of our political divide. Today, Democratic consultant Dan Conley angrily pushed us a little further to the brink &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/31/anti-palin-hysteria-expands-degenerates/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Logistically Untenable?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/26/logistically-untenable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Belmont ClubWe could be forced to entirely revamp our strategy in Afghanistan if the situation in Pakistan continues to deteriorate and the Russians intend to be uncooperative. There are in fact serious concerns that troops in Afghanistan can be cut &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/26/logistically-untenable/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Air Defense Retrospective</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/16/air-defense-retrospective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In From the Cold wonders why Russian tactical aircraft proved so vulnerable to an air defense system they knew intimately. I&#8217;d merely say that low-and-slow Russian tactics are going to get you shot eventually, whatever the SAM is on the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/16/air-defense-retrospective/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Russian Imperialism and the Election</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/16/russian-imperialism-and-the-election/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(photo: Chris Dunn) John Bolton argues that the future of Russian imperialism in Eurasia rides on the outcome of the US presidential election. Unsurprisingly, he pitches McCain: &#8220;First reactions, before the campaigns’ pollsters and consultants get involved are always the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/16/russian-imperialism-and-the-election/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>NATO Protection only for Perfection?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/15/nato-protection-only-for-perfection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 05:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alex Harrowell reminds us that NATO wasn&#8217;t always so timorous about conflict risk exposure: [I]f we assume that Georgia, and specifically Mikhail Saakashvili’s version of it, wasn’t sufficiently responsible (adult, civilised, possibly even white?) to play, how do we explain &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/15/nato-protection-only-for-perfection/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Unity of Black Hearts</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/15/a-unity-of-black-hearts/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/15/a-unity-of-black-hearts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russian Major General Vyacheslav Nikolaevich Borisov, in command of occupied Gori, has finally received orders to do something about the Russian allied irregulars who are rampaging in Georgia committing atrocities: &#8220;Ossetians are killing poor Georgians, this is a problem and &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/15/a-unity-of-black-hearts/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Pirate Army</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/15/the-pirate-army/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CCTV video capture of Russian soldiers robbing a Gori bank at gunpoint. While plunder has a bit of an enduring tradition in the Russian army even in modern times, this is pretty extreme. I&#8217;d be abusing the event as metaphor, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/15/the-pirate-army/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Estonia: Get Georgia and Ukraine in NATO Now</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/15/estonia-get-georgia-and-ukraine-in-nato-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves says the West must act fast: &#8220;They should take Ukraine immediately into NATO, and what is left of Georgia,&#8221; he told Reuters by telephone, adding that a decision this year not to give the two &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/15/estonia-get-georgia-and-ukraine-in-nato-now/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Deny, Deny, Legitimize.</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/15/deny-deny-legitimize/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems Russia is increasingly leaning toward dismembering the Republic of Georgia, something previously denied, now legitimized. The predominant characteristic of Russian policy in Georgia up to this point actually. In the same vein, Russia is finally admitting to being &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/15/deny-deny-legitimize/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Photos from the Front</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/15/photos-from-the-front/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[89 amateur snapshots from the war in Georgia. Some are rather gruesome, so avoid this link if you&#8217;ve a weak stomach. It was good to see some US munitions and equipment in Georgian hands too.]]></description>
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		<title>Russia as Rogue</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/14/russia-as-rogue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says &#8220;the world can forget about&#8221; Georgia&#8217;s territorial integrity. Quite a remarkable statement from the former permanent representative to the United Nations. As a statement of purpose or justification in his country&#8217;s war, it is &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/14/russia-as-rogue/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Going to Tbilisi?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/13/going-to-tbilisi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russian units are on the move again in Georgian territory, apparently in violation of the truce agreement. One Russian soldier in a large convoy shouted an ominous flirtation to a press photographer outside Gori, hopefully in jest or lust: &#8220;Come &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/13/going-to-tbilisi/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hey, Remember that One Time Some of You Made Fun of Me for Saying that Georgia Wouldn&#8217;t Be Occupied?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/12/hey-remember-that-one-time-some-of-you-made-fun-of-me-for-saying-that-georgia-wouldnt-be-occupied/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exactly. Now, as for Lee&#8217;s latest&#8230; Let&#8217;s just say I&#8217;ll be shocked if Saakashvili lasts the year.]]></description>
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		<title>Saakashvili has a Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night Joshua argued that Saakashvili, having quite obviously failed to recapture his renegade territories, is certain to be finished one way or the other. Either overthrown by the Russian army, or by the Georgian people at the ballot box. &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/12/saakashvili-has-a-future/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Recent History &#8211; Republic of Georgia</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/12/recent-history-republic-of-georgia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith_Indy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m doing this for my own benefit, as I&#8217;ve not followed the goings on in the Republic of Georgia, except to note when it&#8217;s in the news, not our Georgia. April 18, 2008 Georgia sought the backing of NATO and &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/12/recent-history-republic-of-georgia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Russia Cuts Central Georgian Highway</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/11/russia-cuts-central-georgian-highway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The country is officially, largely cut in two.]]></description>
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		<title>When There&#8217;s Nothing Left to Burn You Have to Set Yourself on Fire</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/11/when-theres-nothing-left-to-burn-you-have-to-set-yourself-on-fire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for my absenteeism on this, guys, but I&#8217;ve barely had the time to write on Registan.net about the war in Georgia (seriously, go there for some really in-depth discussions about what is going on), and have simply neglected copying &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/11/when-theres-nothing-left-to-burn-you-have-to-set-yourself-on-fire/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Western Georgia Falling</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/11/western-georgia-falling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russian West-Georgia attack expands. UN meets to fret again.]]></description>
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		<title>Gori Falls</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/11/gori-falls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lee's Page]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=4141</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s looking increasingly as if the alarmists were right and Russia intends to drop all pretense. Georgian troops are pulling back to Mtskheta to defend the approach to the capital, if Russia pushes to conquer and subjugate the entire country. &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/11/gori-falls/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Russian Hacker Mob Takes Over Georgian Web During Invasion</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/11/russian-hacker-mob-takes-over-georgian-web-during-invasion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith_Indy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[attack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cyberwar]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=4138</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As if the physical invasion of territory isn&#8217;t enough, it looks like it was preceded by a cyber-attack.]]></description>
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		<title>The Invasion of Western Georgia</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/11/the-invasion-of-western-georgia/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/11/the-invasion-of-western-georgia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[1998]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abkhazia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eduard Shevardnadze]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[invasion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[puppet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senaki]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=4133</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Russia has invaded Western Georgia (proper) and captured Senaki, far from Abkhazia. It&#8217;s being billed by a Russian official as a preventive move against Georgian troop concentration. This being yet another new rationale invented on the fly to justify further &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/11/the-invasion-of-western-georgia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Arms for Georgia</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/11/arms-for-georgia/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/11/arms-for-georgia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[armor]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Haaretz]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shota Utiashvili. spokesman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Ossetia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Evidently immune to the historical irony, Israel halted arms shipments to Georgia months ago due to fears of a Russian attack. As an IDF veteran interprets that: &#8220;When we found ourselves in a similar situation, we expected the world to &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/11/arms-for-georgia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Found Him</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/10/found-him/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lance's Page]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abkhazia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[annexation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[caucasus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joshua Foust]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=4111</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Joshua hasn&#8217;t disappeared, he just isn&#8217;t gracing us with his opinions on the conflict in the Caucasus, but you can find them at Registan.net, here and here. Heh, Insty links to him, but describes it as peevish (Josh? Peevish? Also, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/10/found-him/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>QandO Podcast</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/10/qando-podcast-3/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/10/qando-podcast-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[airspace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[campaign]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dale]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[negotiated settlement]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=4107</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[McQ, Dale and I discuss the Russian campaign against Georgia over South Ossetia. Generally I feel that our support should belong to Georgia. However, Georgia has severely miscalculated in this matter, and frankly our options are limited. At best, we &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/10/qando-podcast-3/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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