Leslie Gelb

Egypt the Day After

Scott MacLeod | Posted 05.25.2011

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Scott MacLeod

The Obama administration, and the rest of the world, must get used to the idea that there is a new Egypt and a new Middle East. The old order that was so comforting to Washington is over.

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Tom Donilon: The Last Best Hope to Help Obama Make Vital Strategic Leaps

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

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Steve Clemons

After the announcement that Tom Donilon would succeed General Jim Jones as President Obama's National Security Adviser, Donilon went from being the busiest man in the White House to the even-busier busiest man. This is good, and bad, news.

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On the Thought of Leslie H. Gelb

Jerome Slater | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jerome Slater

For over forty years Leslie Gelb has been at the very epicenter of the American foreign policy establishment. That's a pretty scary thought, for Leslie Gelb is not a great thinker.

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In Search of the Moderate Muslim: It Takes an Ummah

Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 05.25.2011

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Qanta Ahmed, MD

Until moderate Muslims find each other, 'find the other hand,' and start a global response, nothing less than a cacophony of figurative clapping, we will remain as we are now: voiceless.

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President Obama, A CEO Would Change Up the Team

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Policy, Palace Intrigue, Edward Luce, Steve Clemons, Valerie Jarrett, US Politics, Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, Leslie Gelb, Dana Milbank, Robert Gibbs, Health Care, Barack Obama, Jane Hamsher, Politics News
Steve Clemons

The Obama team is failing on most major policy challenges. The president needs to strategically redeploy his closest group of advisers, change up the game, move some others in, and alter their assignments.

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Milbank Shows Rahm Lots of Love

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

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Steve Clemons

Let's set aside for another post the fact that Milbank's column seems to channel Rahm directly. I wondered if there was a foundation in their relationship for this kind of adoration. Well, maybe.

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Iran Uprising Changes Nuclear Calculus

Joe Cirincione | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nationalism, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Negotiations, Regime-Change, Twitter, Joseph Cirincione, Nuclear Weapons, The Uprising, Economy, President Obama, Leslie Gelb, Right Wing, Iran, Richard Lugar, Iran Election, Iran Nuclear Weapons, World News
Joe Cirincione

Mousavi was always more open to dialogue with the West. If president, his discourse could now include the nuclear program with much less fear of attack.

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Future Historians: Blogs Drive U.S. Foreign Policy

Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ari Melber

For Internet politics, the controversial becomes conventional very quickly. This Sunday's New York Times Book Review has a salient example of blogs' ascension within the conventional wisdom.

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