Steve Clemons

Libyan Victory Validates Obama Doctrine

Joe Cirincione | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Libya, Steve Clemons, Susan Rice, National Security, David Cameron, Neoconservatives, Hosni Mubarak, Obama National Security Team, Fareed Zakaria, Syria, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Nicolas Sarkozy, Victory, Politics News
Joe Cirincione

The collapse of the Gaddafi regime firmly establishes the benefits of Obama's national security strategy over the failed war policies that preceded him -- and are still promoted by his critics.

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What is America's Story for the 21st Century?

John Milewski | Posted 06.21.2011

Read More: Thomas Friedman, Steve Clemons, National Strategic Narrative, Brent Scowcroft, Narrative, 9/11, Globalization, Keith Ellison, Mr. Y, Post Cold War, Robert Kagan, Mark Mykleby, Wayne Porter, Jane Harman, National Security, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Partisanship, National Conversation, Politics News
John Milewski

When we ask ourselves why we are committing military might in Libya (or Afghanistan, or Iraq), we're really asking bigger questions. What is our purpose in the world? What is the story that defines our friends and our foes?

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Why Intervention in Libya Is Wrong in the Long Run

Alex Becker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anne-Marie Slaughter, Steve Clemons, Libya No Fly Zone, Libya Protests, Gaddafi, Gaddafi Ceasefire, Libya Intervention, UN Libya, Libya Revolution, Muammar Gaddafi, World News
Alex Becker

Any nation participating in military intervention in Libya stands to gain perhaps a little from perfect success and lose much from anything less.

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Af-Pak Security Cannot Be Achieved Without a Cost-Benefit Analysis

Alex Becker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steve Clemons, Fiscal Conservatives, Grover Norquist, Afghanistan Study Group, Af-Pak, Afghanistan War, Politics News
Alex Becker

You may not agree that all cost aspects of the war in Afghanistan outweigh the gains, but it is undeniable that without a honest cost-benefit analysis, both security and progress are impossible.

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Why Peaceniks Should Care About the Afghanistan Study Group Report

Robert Naiman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Pape, Steven Walt, Al Qaeda, Steve Clemons, Pakistan, Paul Pillar, Matthew Hoh, Juan Cole, Afghanistan, Diplomacy, Afghanistan Study Group, Afghan Taliban, Foreign Policy, World News
Robert Naiman

They may not be useful for making posters for a demonstration. But for lobbying Congressional staff or making other presentations to people not already on our side, the arguments of the Afghanistan Study Group are likely to be useful.

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Which Party Is the Peace Party?

Alan Grayson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dave Obey, Barbara Lee, Steve Clemons, CongressmanwithGuts.Com, Martin Sheen, Oliver Stone, Peace Party, Bob Herbert, Digby, Alan Grayson, Jim McGovern, Robert Greenwald, Grayson, Marcy Wheeler, Politics News
Alan Grayson

For years, I prosecuted war profiteers in Iraq. I saw exactly what Gen. Butler meant when he said, "war is a racket." I'm not going to change my mind about these wars any time soon. But we have to change other people's minds.

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My Fault: Apologies to David Frum!

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pugnacious Nationalists, Howard Kurtz, Steve Clemons, Moises Naim, Benson, Danielle Crittenden, Paul Gigot, Nick Gillespie, Wall Street Journal, Sarah Palin, Eli Lake, Foreign Policy, Dick Cheney, American Enterprise Institute, Bill Kristol, Irving Kristol, Neocons, Rupert Murdoch, Neoconservatives, David Frum, Martin Walker, Jamie Kirchick, Julia Watson, Health Care, William Kristol, Republican Party, Dogs, Politics News
Steve Clemons

It truly is a shame that the AEI didn't realize that it could reinvent its own place and relevance in Washington with the kind of creative bridge-building and policy innovation that Frum was pushing.

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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

Read More: Palace Intrigue, White House, Valerie Jarrett, Edward Luce, Steve Clemons, Richard Wolffe, John Chafee, Dana Milbank, Immigration, Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, Leslie Gelb, Robert Gibbs, Health Care, Gregory Craig, Jane Hamsher, Media News
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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Taking Yes for an Answer

Amjad Atallah | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mitchell, Iran, Ehud Barak, Steve Clemons, Obama Middle East, Fred Hof, Binyamin Netanyahu, World News
Amjad Atallah

Noah Efron: "To be a secular Israeli in 2009 is a demoralizing and demoralized affair... We are tired of the bombs... Of UN and EU condemnations... Of our lives and tired of ourselves."

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Cuba at a Crossroads

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steve Clemons, Congressional Black Caucus, New Merica Foundation, Julia Sweig, Travel Ban, Carnegie Endowment for Peace, Council on Foreign Relations, Cuban Revolution, Daniel Bruno Sanz, Embargo, Fidel Castro, David, Summit of the Americas, Cuba Sanctions, Carlos Lage, Raul Castro, Cuba, Jeffrey Davidow, Cuba Policy, Rothkopf, World News
Daniel Bruno Sanz

TO THE HONORABLE BARACK OBAMA, 44TH PRESIDENT OF...

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America's Cuba Policy is the "Edsel" of the US Foreign Policy Portfolio

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steve Clemons, Luis Alberto Moreno, Latin America, Summit of the Americas, US Foreign Policy, Julia Sweig, Senator Mel Martinez, Jeffrey Davidow, David Rothkopf, US-Cuba Policy, Barack Obama, Edsel, Obama Cuba, 100 Days, Obama 100 Days, World News
Steve Clemons

Obama's point guy on the upcoming Summit of the Americas offered me the neocon-friendly, ideologically vapid answer to my question on Cuba. Does Obama read the brief on Cuba?

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