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	<title><![CDATA[Expanding War, Contracting Meaning: The Next President and the Global War on Terror]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-bacevich/expanding-war-contracting_b_139683.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Cross-posted from <a href="http://www.TomDispatch.com">www.TomDispatch.com</a</p>

<p><em>Even as the Bush presidency wears down, the Global War on Terror only expands. Perhaps the word should be "metastasizes." Just this week, the U.S. military, using SOFA-less Iraq as its launching pad, sent four helicopters with U.S. special forces soldiers across the Syrian border in an operation in which a number of people were killed. (The Syrians claim the assault was on a farm and that "a father and his three children, the farm's guard and...</em></p></p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-12-01T05:12:00-05:00</date_published>
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