<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>The Open Village&#187; war</title>
	<atom:link href="http://www.theopenvillage.com/tag/war/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://www.theopenvillage.com</link>
	<description>Where nothing is out of bounds!</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:11:38 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0</generator>
		<item>
		<title>A Nation of Cynics</title>
		<link>http://www.theopenvillage.com/2009/02/a-nation-of-cynics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theopenvillage.com/2009/02/a-nation-of-cynics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Law and Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Accomplices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Men]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bigotry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian Faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cynics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dafour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Empty Shells]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreheads]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hypocrites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mediocrity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miscreants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naysayers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nepotism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palestinian Territories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Presidency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President George W Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reformer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rush Limbaugh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Payments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treasury Secretary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wallabies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theopenvillage.com/2009/02/a-nation-of-cynics/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just two weeks into the Obama administration, naysayers are already pronouncing the man and his administration a failure! And the reason, his promise to institute ethics reform and the revelation that some of his nominees had lapsed tax payments. That&#8217;s right. The same group who sat idly by, and in most cases were accomplices in [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.theopenvillage.com/2009/02/a-nation-of-cynics/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Crisis and Contradictions in American Intelligentsia</title>
		<link>http://www.theopenvillage.com/2008/09/crisis-and-contradictions-in-american-intelligentsia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theopenvillage.com/2008/09/crisis-and-contradictions-in-american-intelligentsia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Ihonvbere</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conflict Resolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Far East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Law and Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assassination Attempts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assassinations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blind Eye]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Careful Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corruption In Latin America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dictators]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom Fighters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hezbollah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Illegal Drug Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Institutions Of Higher Learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intellectual Class]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intelligentsia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Conflicts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Policy Analysts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Blunders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quite Some Time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Repressive Regimes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research Fellows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Separatist Movements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supreme Leader]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States Of America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weapons]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theopenvillage.com/?p=160</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For quite some time now, I have often found myself asking the question &#8220;Why does the greatest country in the world keep making stupid political blunders in terms of foreign policy?&#8221;. The evidence of this myopic and sometimes disastrous political miscalculations are broad and varied: from starting local wars in the Far East to supporting [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.theopenvillage.com/2008/09/crisis-and-contradictions-in-american-intelligentsia/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The hunt for oil: Another  wasteful $1 Billion foreign aid</title>
		<link>http://www.theopenvillage.com/2008/09/the-hunt-for-oil-another-wasteful-1-billion-foreign-aid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theopenvillage.com/2008/09/the-hunt-for-oil-another-wasteful-1-billion-foreign-aid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Ihonvbere</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conflict Resolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Far East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Armored Tanks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Autocratic Rule]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Petroleum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chevron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil Strife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Country Of Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Darfur Sudan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Entrenchment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gaza Strip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gulf Coast Areas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irrational Decisions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Janjewid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military Buildup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military Trucks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military Weapons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil And Gas Prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[One Billion Dollars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ossetians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palestinians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Police Uniforms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recent Natural Disasters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reconstruction Aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republic Of Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russian Forces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Conflicts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Ossetia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Squabble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stupid Decision]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Threat To World Peace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Time Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Bank And Gaza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Bank And Gaza Strip]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theopenvillage.com/?p=152</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The recent news that once again the Bush administration plans to announce a $1 billion package of aid to help rebuild another country, this time, Georgia after its rout by Russian forces last month, is yet again a demonstration that the Bush administration is clueless about the use of economic power in foreign affairs. After [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.theopenvillage.com/2008/09/the-hunt-for-oil-another-wasteful-1-billion-foreign-aid/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Muzzled Citizenry</title>
		<link>http://www.theopenvillage.com/2008/07/muzzled-citizenry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theopenvillage.com/2008/07/muzzled-citizenry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Ihonvbere</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arabs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Citizenry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contradictions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decent Folks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fish Breath]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Former Soviet Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Wesley Clark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hoopla]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Insurance Papers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neighbours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Police Car]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Police Officer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Discourse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retired General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retraction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seat Belts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sensational News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Of Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stop Sign]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wesley Clark]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theopenvillage.com/?p=33</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Election years, to me brings out some of the contradictions in American civil society. In a country that is one of the freest in the world, we are, ironically, the most censored. Censored, not by the government, but by ourselves. The U.S. seems to be the most self-policing country in the world. Some of this [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.theopenvillage.com/2008/07/muzzled-citizenry/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Are we gearing up for another war?</title>
		<link>http://www.theopenvillage.com/2008/06/are-we-gearing-up-for-another-war/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theopenvillage.com/2008/06/are-we-gearing-up-for-another-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Ihonvbere</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conflict Resolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arrogance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bush Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Escalation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hamas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hezbollah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Impasse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inception]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military Exercises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Interests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear Ambitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear Weapons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peaceful Purposes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peaceful Resolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Provocation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quite Some Time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sabers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shiites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Of Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theopenvillage.net/?p=22</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The recent escalation of rhetoric between Israel and Iran makes one wonder if the Middle East is gearing up for another war. Western nations have been pressuring Iran for quite some time now to &#8220;give up its nuclear ambitions&#8221;. While Iran maintains that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, there does not seem to [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.theopenvillage.com/2008/06/are-we-gearing-up-for-another-war/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>What in the world is Hamid Karzai smoking?</title>
		<link>http://www.theopenvillage.com/2008/06/what-in-the-world-is-hamid-kazai-smoking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theopenvillage.com/2008/06/what-in-the-world-is-hamid-kazai-smoking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Ihonvbere</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Far East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hamid Kazai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NATO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taliban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.theopenvillage.net/?p=13</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I almost fell out of my chair the other day upon hearing the news that Afghan President Hamid Karzai was threatening to take the fight to Pakistan if they (Pakistan) did not stop supporting the border-crossing Taliban insurgents. What is he smoking? Or better yet, maybe he should ease up a little on the opium. [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.theopenvillage.com/2008/06/what-in-the-world-is-hamid-kazai-smoking/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
