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		<title>Fred Kaplan gets it wrong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a generally insightful and timely article appearing in Slate, journalist and defense policy expert Fred Kaplan debunks “the nutty theory that Iranian nukes are a good thing.”  He echoes some of the arguments I’ve offered over the several years this blog has been in existence.  Kaplan, however, errs later in his article [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulhager.org/wordpress/?p=131</link>
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		<title>More Avatar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After posting my review of Avatar, I went to the IMDB site and participated in some of the discussions there.  While perusing the various threads, I came upon The Tet Zoo guide to the creatures of Avatar by a zoologist/writer named Darren Naish.  He published his observations on Avatar the same day I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulhager.org/wordpress/?p=130</link>
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		<title>AVATAR: A trope too far?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Introduction
I saw Titanic on opening day, 19 December 1997 – my birthday.  The movie immediately generated a welter of discussion among critics and cineastes alike.  I eventually weighed in with my own “quasi-review”, which I posted on the discussion group “rec.arts.movies.current-films”.  The review was titled “TITANIC: Some Reflections”
James Cameron’s new movie, Avatar, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulhager.org/wordpress/?p=129</link>
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		<title>I told you so</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m back, after a long hiatus.  There are a number of reasons for the gap in my postings – some political, some personal.  On the political front, though I’ve considered commenting on the Obama Administration’s foreign policy at various times, I didn’t really have anything to add beyond what readers could find elsewhere. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulhager.org/wordpress/?p=128</link>
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		<title>Maybe North Korea didn’t get it right after all</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just came across this article by geologist Jeffrey Park in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.  Park says that the seismic data indicate the latest North Korean test was another fizzle, concluding the yield was “likely 4 kilotons or smaller”.
According to the author bio in the sidebar, Park seems to be qualified to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulhager.org/wordpress/?p=127</link>
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		<title>North Korea finally gets it right?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in October 2006, I speculated (accurately) that North Korea’s nuke test was a “fizzle”.  Yesterday, North Korea (aka the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea – DPRK) conducted another test, this time achieving a yield of aproximately 20 kilotons.  As I said in the 2006 article:

North Korea has repeatedly shown itself to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulhager.org/wordpress/?p=126</link>
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		<title>CSIS study: Israeli strike feasible</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) published a study 14 March 2009 laying out an Israeli attack scenario against Iranian nuclear sites.  It is very similar to my Scenario 1 from 12 February 2007, which describes a direct strike on the key Iranian nuke sites.
There are some differences between the CSIS and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulhager.org/wordpress/?p=125</link>
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		<title>When will Israel attack?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since my last posting in January, the political situation in Israel has clarified: 2nd place finisher Likud and party leader Benjamin Netanyahu are now in charge.  There have been some other changes as well.  True to Obama’s campaign statements indicating he intended to limit/reduce/eliminate US ballistic missile defense programs, his administration is planning [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulhager.org/wordpress/?p=124</link>
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		<title>NY Times: U.S. rejected aid for Israeli strike</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On 10 January, the New York Times posted U.S. Rejected Aid for Israeli Raid on Iranian Nuclear Site, which claims that the U.S. refused to supply Israel with advanced bunker busters, refueling aircraft, or to allow overflights of Iraq for an attack on Iran.  Nothing in this article should surprise readers of this blog. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulhager.org/wordpress/?p=123</link>
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		<title>Is Gaza attack the “January Surprise”?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Israel is now several days in to a major operation intended to attrition Hamas and degrade its ability to launch indiscriminate rocket attacks against Israeli civilians.  In November, just before Obama won, I predicted that the Kadima-led Israeli government would launch an attack on Iran in the month before the February 10 parliamentary elections. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulhager.org/wordpress/?p=122</link>
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