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	<description>STRATEGIES</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Caesar on the Republican Debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I asked Caesar&#8217;s Ghost what he thought of last night&#8217;s Republican Presidential candidates&#8217; debate. He sent the following reply:
CAESAR THE DICTATOR TO &#8220;STRATEGIES&#8221; BLOG
Caesar would not entrust the highest office in the republic to a person lacking the ambition to win. Romney displayed that ambition last night but Perry did not. Caesar adheres to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caesar on 9-11</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the tenth anniversary of 9-11 approaching, I summoned up once again the ghost of one of history’s greatest strategic thinkers. Hail Caesar! What words of wisdom do you have for us, as we approach the tenth anniversary of 9-11?

Caesar would not have waged war as you Americans have. After a conspiracy attacked your country [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Can&#8217;t Win Without a Winner</title>
		<link>http://www.barrystrauss.com/blog/?p=380</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 22:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With electoral politics heating up, I summoned up the new familiar ghost of Caesar.
Hail, Caesar. The Republicans seem quite optimistic these days about defeating President Obama in 2012 and winning the White House.

Men readily believe what they want.
But given the state of the American economy in the Obama years, doesn’t it seem that the Republicans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Never Confess</title>
		<link>http://www.barrystrauss.com/blog/?p=376</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 22:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the financial crisis upending the political scene, I turned for advice once again to the master of crisis management, Julius Caesar. As usual, his ghost was ready to talk.
I notice, dictator, that President Obama has not taken the blame for Standard &#038; Poor’s downgrade of the U. S. credit rating. In fact, his advisor, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Man and the Mith</title>
		<link>http://www.barrystrauss.com/blog/?p=372</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 23:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Look closely at this detail of a tower in Turkey. Most of it is brick and dates from the Byzantine period but the lower courses contain some marble blocks – they are ancient. The marble was reused from an earlier structure, maybe one that stood on the same site. I’d like to think that they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pivoting</title>
		<link>http://www.barrystrauss.com/blog/?p=364</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Pivot” is the buzzword of the season among political journalists. They report, for instance, that President Obama is “pivoting” to the issue of jobs after the federal debt ceiling debate. Earlier this year they said that Governor Romney was trying to “pivot” from playing defense about his healthcare law in Massachusetts to going on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doing the Hannibal Haul</title>
		<link>http://www.barrystrauss.com/blog/?p=361</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the recent backing and forthing over the Federal debt, did you ever wish that somebody would walk into the room and turn off the sound system? 
Well, two thousand years ago, Hannibal turned that wish into reality. The year was 202 B.C.E. and the great Carthaginian general had just lost the last major battle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom Rising</title>
		<link>http://www.barrystrauss.com/blog/?p=353</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 480 B.C., an invading army captured Athens and destroyed the temples on the Acropolis of Athens &#8212; the &#8220;High City,&#8221; a natural, rock fortress in the heart of town. It took more than 40 years before the Athenians rebuilt and rededicated those temples. But it was worth the wait because the new Acropolis was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trust</title>
		<link>http://www.barrystrauss.com/blog/?p=348</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t understand the debt crisis in Washington. I’m not an economist. But I do understand the election of 2012. And I know that whoever wins this week’s debate in D.C. will forge ahead in next year’s races.
To put events in perspective I turned to my usual source of wisdom on this matter, Julius Caesar’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Make a Deal &#8212; or Not</title>
		<link>http://www.barrystrauss.com/blog/?p=345</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The news that negotiations were held again last night at the White House between President Obama, Speaker of the House Boehner, and other congressmen, that the negotiations failed, and that they will resume again on Monday morning – but only after the President holds a news conference – well, that was enough for me. There [...]]]></description>
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