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"There are a lot of al Qaeda look-alike cells," said Steve Clemons, a Middle East analyst at the New America Foundation. "Bin Laden was an animating force but there are other ways these groups get oxygen and can remain a threat. ...

"The failure to capture him created doubts in our ability abroad and self-doubt at home," said Steve Clemons, a foreign policy expert who publishes a political blog, the Washington Note. "Checking off that box gives Obama enormous credibility. ...

... One prominent foreign policy expert, Steve Clemons of the New America Foundation, said killing bin Laden probably would have been more significant a few years ago in terms of his importance to Al Qaeda operations. Earlier this year, the Obama administration said the Yemen-based Al Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula, ...

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“This may be part of Obama's double-down yet again on Afghanistan,” said Steve Clemons, an analyst with the New America Foundation, a centrist policy research organization in Washington. Pakistan's ambassador to the US, Husain Haqqani, applauded the ...

Steve Clemons, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, welcomed the initiative by Carter, saying that North Korea can be dangerous when ignored. "America's bandwidth is at overcapacity right now with Libya, Afghanistan, Egypt, Syria and whatever ...

Panetta's challenge will be to convince the public that the Pentagon can reduce the defense budget while maintaining security, said Steve Clemons, an analyst with the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan policy research organization in Washington. ...

Steven Clemons, a senior fellow at policy institute New America Foundation, served as master of ceremonies for Century's Washington dinner on Afghanistan. He calls the event a sign that Century "could be rewiring itself." Leone says that Century wasn't ...

... discusses with guests: Mohamed Abdul Malek, the chairman of Libya Watch; Paul Smyth, a defence analyst and former British military officer; and Steve Clemons, the director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation. ...

His behind-the-scenes role on Libya was as “a voice of extreme caution” sketching out “downside scenarios” against intervention during meetings with the president, said Steve Clemons, founder of the American Strategy Program at the Washington-based New ...

Jonathan Landay of McClatchy and Steve Clemons of the New America Foundation debate whether Pakistan can really be a U.S. ally if they're expelling America's CIA and Special Ops.

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... to leave a country even on sweet terms that would be considered distasteful and horrible and immoral by much of the world, but it's just a trade off,” said Steven Clemons, founder of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation. ...

"The argument that the US government will make is that the necessity to protect civilians by all means will supercede the arms embargo," says Steve Clemons, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. He adds that the situation is a messy one, ...