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	<title><![CDATA[In the Language of Today]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/norman-lear/in-the-language-of-today_b_39861.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Excerpt from <a href="http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/01/28/you-keep-using-that-word-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means/">Crooks and Liars</a>:</p>

<p>"...certain parallels between Iraq and Vietnam are uncanny," says Fred Barnes, in the <em>WEEKLY STANDARD</em>. "A new general, David Petraeus, is taking over in Iraq with a credible new strategy, counterinsurgency. Four decades ago, General Creighton Abrams became the American commander in Vietnam, also with a new strategy. It called for taking and holding the villages and hamlets of South Vietnam. In a word, it was counterinsurgency, and it worked. Now in Iraq, Petraeus has...</p>]]></abstract>
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	<date_published>2008-03-28T02:47:00-04:00</date_published>
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