<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" ><channel><title>Newsvine - Col. Jack Jacobs</title><link>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/</link><description>Newsvine - Col. Jack Jacobs</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2009</copyright><lastBuildDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:16:42 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:09:33 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>King Obama</title><description><![CDATA[ In the waning weeks of the his first year in office, news outlets have been reporting that President Obama's poll numbers have been sliding, and evidently less than half of the country now approves of the job he is doing.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Col. Jack Jacobs]]></dc:creator><link>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/23/3533606-king-obama</link><guid>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/23/3533606-king-obama</guid><category>politics</category><category>iraq</category><category>bush</category><category>war</category><category>economy</category><category>iran</category><category>congress</category><category>president</category><category>white-house</category><category>pakistan</category><category>afghanistan</category><category>clinton</category><category>senate</category><category>biden</category><category>defense</category><category>vietnam</category><category>kennedy</category><category>johnson</category><category>barak-obama</category><category>roosevelt</category><category>houseof-representatives</category><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:16:42 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Gitmo Comes To NY</title><description><![CDATA[ The original decision to house terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay was something of a default selection.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Col. Jack Jacobs]]></dc:creator><link>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/17/3505000-gitmo-comes-to-ny</link><guid>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/17/3505000-gitmo-comes-to-ny</guid><category>politics</category><category>terrorism</category><category>pakistan</category><category>terror</category><category>9-11</category><category>trial</category><category>new-york-city</category><category>guantanamo</category><category>cuba</category><category>osama-bin-laden</category><category>gitmo</category><category>suspects</category><category>fundamentalists</category><category>military-tribunals</category><category>mastermind</category><category>ksm</category><category>oresident-obama</category><category>khakid-shaikh-mohammed</category><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:44:10 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Failure And Tragedy </title><description><![CDATA[ Moments after the shooting began at Fort Hood, the media began analyzing the thin and often contradictory data that streamed into the newsrooms: there were two or perhaps even three assailants; one was cornered near the post exchange or commissary; one was shot dead.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Col. Jack Jacobs]]></dc:creator><link>http://world-news.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/08/3474299-failure-and-tragedy-</link><guid>http://world-news.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/08/3474299-failure-and-tragedy-</guid><category>us-news</category><category>religion</category><category>islam</category><category>murder</category><category>texas</category><category>muslim</category><category>shooting</category><category>army</category><category>killed</category><category>hospital</category><category>ptsd</category><category>massacre</category><category>magazines</category><category>fort-hood</category><category>harassment</category><category>armed-forces</category><category>clips</category><category>wounded</category><category>walter-reed</category><category>coma</category><category>deployment</category><category>ft-hood</category><category>major</category><category>court-martial</category><category>psychiatrist</category><category>hasan</category><category>ammunition</category><category>ammo</category><category>pistols</category><category>gunshots</category><category>brooke-army-medical-center</category><category>killen</category><category>traumatic-stress</category><category>100-rounds</category><category>life-suppport</category><pubDate>Sun, 8 Nov 2009 17:56:34 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Media 1, White House 0</title><description><![CDATA[ The relationship among media outlets is simple: competition. While the audience is potentially very large---there are more than 300 million of us---the number of Americans who routinely watch, listen and read the traditional media is much smaller.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Col. Jack Jacobs]]></dc:creator><link>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/10/29/3438721-media-1-white-house-0</link><guid>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/10/29/3438721-media-1-white-house-0</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:14:16 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Whither Pakistan?</title><description><![CDATA[ As the number of casualties from deadly bombings increases, the news from Pakistan seems pretty grim. A day doesn't go by without civilians being killed and maimed by Pakistani Taliban explosives.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Col. Jack Jacobs]]></dc:creator><link>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/10/16/3385630-whither-pakistan</link><guid>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/10/16/3385630-whither-pakistan</guid><category>world-news</category><category>obama</category><category>president</category><category>india</category><category>pakistan</category><category>afghanistan</category><category>islam</category><category>clinton</category><category>defense</category><category>surge</category><category>gates</category><category>isi</category><category>kabul</category><category>petraeus</category><category>islamabad</category><category>secretary</category><category>zardari</category><category>quetta</category><category>mcchrystal</category><category>revolutionaries</category><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:44:50 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>The Prize</title><description><![CDATA[ Before the excitement inevitably ebbs, it would be amusing and instructive to examine the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama, and of the granting of such recognition generally.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Col. Jack Jacobs]]></dc:creator><link>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/10/11/3370917-the-prize</link><guid>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/10/11/3370917-the-prize</guid><category>politics</category><category>obama</category><category>iraq</category><category>war</category><category>iran</category><category>president</category><category>pakistan</category><category>norway</category><category>nobel</category><category>arafat</category><category>oslo</category><category>peace-prize</category><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:05:57 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>A Busy Week</title><description><![CDATA[ At the risk of being more superficial than usual, with so much happening this week a brief review may be in order.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Col. Jack Jacobs]]></dc:creator><link>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/10/02/3341491-a-busy-week</link><guid>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/10/02/3341491-a-busy-week</guid><pubDate>Fri, 2 Oct 2009 15:40:58 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>How Not To Make Policy</title><description><![CDATA[ Although it had its share of leaks, the last administration expended a lot of effort to keep its decision-making machinery operating quietly and, more or less, in secret.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Col. Jack Jacobs]]></dc:creator><link>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/24/3310274-how-not-to-make-policy</link><guid>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/24/3310274-how-not-to-make-policy</guid><category>politics</category><category>obama</category><category>iraq</category><category>iran</category><category>president</category><category>military</category><category>pakistan</category><category>afghanistan</category><category>clinton</category><category>al-qaeda</category><category>taliban</category><category>biden</category><category>army</category><category>foreign-policy</category><category>defense</category><category>state</category><category>marines</category><category>osama-bin-laden</category><category>surge</category><category>gates</category><category>missiles</category><category>bombs</category><category>civilians</category><category>secretary</category><category>south-waziristan</category><category>collateral-damage</category><category>withdrawl</category><category>rpv</category><category>vice-preseident</category><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:39:20 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Decision Time On Afghanistan</title><description><![CDATA[ For some time, it has been clear that there has not been progress against the Taliban in Afghanistan, and there was widespread speculation that General Stanley McChrystal, who runs the operation, needs more troops than the 68,000 already allocated.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Col. Jack Jacobs]]></dc:creator><link>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/21/3294533-decision-time-on-afghanistan</link><guid>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/21/3294533-decision-time-on-afghanistan</guid><category>world-news</category><category>obama</category><category>iraq</category><category>president</category><category>pakistan</category><category>afghanistan</category><category>al-qaeda</category><category>taliban</category><category>9-11</category><category>terrorists</category><category>troops</category><category>osama-bin-laden</category><category>surge</category><category>gates</category><category>kabul</category><category>decision</category><category>secretary-of-defense</category><category>general-stanley-mcchrystal</category><category>davidpetraeus</category><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:42:01 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Foaming At The Mouth</title><description><![CDATA[ If one were looking for examples that our elected officials' intellectual development is arrested, one would find one no better than Representative Addison Graves ("Joe") Wilson, Sr., (R-SC).]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Col. Jack Jacobs]]></dc:creator><link>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/11/3253219-foaming-at-the-mouth</link><guid>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/11/3253219-foaming-at-the-mouth</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:35:12 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>The Associated Press Loses Its Way</title><description><![CDATA[ By virtue of the First Amendment, the media is the only business protected by the Constitution, and of its provisions the First Amendment is the most important because it guarantees all the others.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Col. Jack Jacobs]]></dc:creator><link>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/05/3228394-the-associated-press-loses-its-way</link><guid>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/05/3228394-the-associated-press-loses-its-way</guid><category>politics</category><category>associated-press</category><category>afghanistan</category><category>new-york-times</category><category>ap</category><category>newspapers</category><category>gates</category><category>photograph</category><category>tom-curley</category><category>dead-soldier</category><category>dead-marine</category><category>lance-cpl-joshua-bernard</category><category>dying-marine</category><pubDate>Sat, 5 Sep 2009 15:14:39 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Time Wounds All Heals</title><description><![CDATA[ In The New York Times of Sunday, August 23, 2009, in the first section of the paper but inconspicuously buried below the fold on page 24, was a brief Associated Press story about William Calley.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Col. Jack Jacobs]]></dc:creator><link>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/08/24/3186595-time-wounds-all-heals</link><guid>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/08/24/3186595-time-wounds-all-heals</guid><category>us-news</category><category>war</category><category>president</category><category>murder</category><category>freedom</category><category>trial</category><category>prison</category><category>army</category><category>lt</category><category>vietnam</category><category>liberty</category><category>killings</category><category>nixon</category><category>massacre</category><category>jefferson</category><category>richard-nixon</category><category>combat</category><category>captain</category><category>habeus-corpus</category><category>1968</category><category>house-arrest</category><category>fort-benning</category><category>my-lai</category><category>medina</category><category>1971</category><category>kiwanis</category><category>william-calley</category><category>ft-benning</category><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:55:13 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Shattering the Peace</title><description><![CDATA[ This week we witnessed a massive increase in violence in Iraq. In what appeared to be a coordinated series of bombings, more than 90 people were killed and hundreds maimed on Wednesday alone. What is the United Sates going to do about it?

 In a word: nothing.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Col. Jack Jacobs]]></dc:creator><link>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/08/20/3171994-shattering-the-peace</link><guid>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/08/20/3171994-shattering-the-peace</guid><category>world-news</category><category>us</category><category>iraq</category><category>war</category><category>iran</category><category>military</category><category>russia</category><category>afghanistan</category><category>nuclear</category><category>army</category><category>defense</category><category>troops</category><category>soldiers</category><category>baghdad</category><category>marines</category><category>gates</category><category>sunni</category><category>bombing</category><category>nukes</category><category>withdrawal</category><category>shiite</category><category>shia</category><category>petraeus</category><category>green-zone</category><category>al-maliki</category><category>moqtada-al-sadr</category><category>teheran</category><category>southwest-asia</category><category>boms</category><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:20:47 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Captain Speicher Comes Home</title><description><![CDATA[ This week, after resting for nearly two decades in the western Iraqi desert, the remains of Navy Captain Scott Speicher were brought home to Jacksonville, Florida.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Col. Jack Jacobs]]></dc:creator><link>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/08/13/3150276-captain-speicher-comes-home</link><guid>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/08/13/3150276-captain-speicher-comes-home</guid><category>us-news</category><category>iraq</category><category>osama-bin-laden</category><category>remains</category><category>kia</category><category>us-navy</category><category>department-of-defense</category><category>burial</category><category>killed-in-action</category><category>mia</category><category>mig</category><category>1991</category><category>tikrit</category><category>missing-in-action</category><category>arlington-cemetery</category><category>shoot-down</category><category>speicher</category><category>f-a-18</category><category>first-gulf-war</category><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:57:45 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Facts and Nonsense in Afghanistan</title><description><![CDATA[ There is an ancient axiom that stresses the wisdom of articulating the objective before committing the resources, and more recently Lewis Carroll succinctly captured the notion when he wrote, "If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there."]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Col. Jack Jacobs]]></dc:creator><link>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/08/07/3128652-facts-and-nonsense-in-afghanistan</link><guid>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/08/07/3128652-facts-and-nonsense-in-afghanistan</guid><category>world-news</category><category>obama</category><category>iraq</category><category>war</category><category>iran</category><category>president</category><category>military</category><category>pakistan</category><category>afghanistan</category><category>al-qaeda</category><category>taliban</category><category>gates</category><category>national-security</category><category>general</category><category>petraeus</category><category>opium</category><category>secretary-of-defense</category><category>mcchrystal</category><category>odierno</category><pubDate>Fri, 7 Aug 2009 17:22:40 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Time To Go?</title><description><![CDATA[ Many people have been transfixed by the president's having beer with the protagonists in the Henry Louis Gates episode, and that spectacle nearly obscured the leak of a startling memo from Baghdad.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Col. Jack Jacobs]]></dc:creator><link>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/07/31/3098232-time-to-go</link><guid>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/07/31/3098232-time-to-go</guid><category>world-news</category><category>obama</category><category>iraq</category><category>iran</category><category>president</category><category>al-qaeda</category><category>taliban</category><category>defense</category><category>baghdad</category><category>gates</category><category>sunni</category><category>general</category><category>kurds</category><category>withdrawal</category><category>shia</category><category>petraeus</category><category>maliki</category><category>memo</category><category>secretary-of-defense</category><category>odierno</category><category>nationalsecurity</category><category>colonel-reese</category><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:17:57 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Will Health Care Look Like the V.A.?</title><description><![CDATA[ With the Obama administration struggling to pass health care legislation, and with news outlets and elected officials talking about little else, the president has mounted the podium to exhort citizens on the subject.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Col. Jack Jacobs]]></dc:creator><link>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/07/23/3054210-will-health-care-look-like-the-va</link><guid>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/07/23/3054210-will-health-care-look-like-the-va</guid><category>us-news</category><category>obama</category><category>congress</category><category>health-care</category><category>senate</category><category>insurance</category><category>taxes</category><category>vote</category><category>veterans</category><category>pelosi</category><category>medical</category><category>house-of-representatives</category><category>va</category><category>medicaid</category><category>uninsured</category><category>bureaucracy</category><category>drugmedicare</category><category>public-medicine</category><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:42:21 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>The Second American Revolution</title><description><![CDATA[ The battle has now been joined, one that will have more social and economic impact on this nation than any other issue in at least the last 75 years, and it may rank in importance and pervasiveness with the income tax and similar landmark legislation.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Col. Jack Jacobs]]></dc:creator><link>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/07/16/3027885-the-second-american-revolution</link><guid>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/07/16/3027885-the-second-american-revolution</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:59:51 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>After The Hype</title><description><![CDATA[ Almost lost in the din of the Michael Jackson noise has been a number of developments of more than passing importance.

 --American casualties in Afghanistan have begun to increase.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Col. Jack Jacobs]]></dc:creator><link>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/07/08/3004268-after-the-hype</link><guid>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/07/08/3004268-after-the-hype</guid><pubDate>Wed, 8 Jul 2009 15:43:18 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>The Helmand Imperative</title><description><![CDATA[ As American forces reduce their active involvement in Iraq, insurgents have begun to test the resolve of Iraqi troops. Violence is up and will probably rise, particularly in areas---like Mosul---that have been battlegrounds between Arabs and Kurds or between Arab sects.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Col. Jack Jacobs]]></dc:creator><link>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/07/02/2990671-the-helmand-imperative</link><guid>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/07/02/2990671-the-helmand-imperative</guid><category>world-news</category><category>pakistan</category><category>afghanistan</category><category>drugs</category><category>al-qaeda</category><category>taliban</category><category>defense</category><category>marines</category><category>surge</category><category>gates</category><category>kabul</category><category>petraeus</category><category>karzai</category><category>opium</category><category>kandahar</category><category>helmand</category><category>poppies</category><category>central-command</category><pubDate>Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:41:31 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Teheran One Week Later</title><description><![CDATA[ A week after the start of massive street theater, the type not seen in Teheran since the revolution of 1979, things are becoming deathly quiet in Iran.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Col. Jack Jacobs]]></dc:creator><link>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/06/25/2959928-teheran-one-week-later</link><guid>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/06/25/2959928-teheran-one-week-later</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:15:13 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>The Iran Show</title><description><![CDATA[President George W. Bush was fond of saying that all people want democracy, and in a very general sense he was probably right. But his misadventures prove that wanting democracy isn't enough. People have to be willing to fight for it. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Col. Jack Jacobs]]></dc:creator><link>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/06/17/2939407-the-iran-show</link><guid>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/06/17/2939407-the-iran-show</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:35:39 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Guantanamo Episode III: Copping a Plea</title><description><![CDATA[In the last installment of the long-running Guantanamo Show, the Congress asserted its primacy by refusing to fund the closure of the American facility in Cuba, and President Obama announced that, to administer justice to detainees, he may use the Bush-era military tribunal trial&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Col. Jack Jacobs]]></dc:creator><link>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/06/07/2904918-guantanamo-episode-iii-copping-a-plea</link><guid>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/06/07/2904918-guantanamo-episode-iii-copping-a-plea</guid><category>politics</category><category>obama</category><category>terrorism</category><category>president</category><category>military</category><category>pakistan</category><category>al-qaeda</category><category>taliban</category><category>cheney</category><category>9-11</category><category>guantanamo</category><category>pelosi</category><category>terrorists</category><category>gates</category><category>national-security</category><category>detainees</category><category>waterboarding</category><category>trials</category><category>department-of-defense</category><category>court-martial</category><category>tribunals</category><pubDate>Sun, 7 Jun 2009 15:23:44 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Another Fine Mess</title><description><![CDATA[For the second time in three years, North Korea has tested a nuclear device, to the great consternation and teeth-gashing of just about everybody.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Col. Jack Jacobs]]></dc:creator><link>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/05/26/2864781-another-fine-mess</link><guid>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/05/26/2864781-another-fine-mess</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 18:11:12 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Reality Bites </title><description><![CDATA[The major theme of Barack Obama's campaign was change, a sharp diversion from the policies of the Bush administration. The electorate, Mr. Obama and his advisers were all confident that many changes, some of them sweeping, would be effected once the new president took office. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Col. Jack Jacobs]]></dc:creator><link>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/05/22/2850959-reality-bites-</link><guid>http://jackjacobs.newsvine.com/_news/2009/05/22/2850959-reality-bites-</guid><category>politics</category><category>obama</category><category>iraq</category><category>president</category><category>pakistan</category><category>afghanistan</category><category>supreme-court</category><category>terror</category><category>al-qaeda</category><category>muslim</category><category>taliban</category><category>guantanamo</category><category>gates</category><category>detainees</category><category>petraeus</category><category>insurgents</category><category>secretary-of-defense</category><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 17:29:33 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>