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Steven Clemons comments on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announcement Friday of a replacement for the late Richard Holbrooke, the troubleshooter who oversaw U.S. policy on Afghanistan and Pakistan.

"The foreign policy plate is very full and the 'defining challenges' for the White House these past two years have not been these nontraditional threats, but rather Iran, Iraq, the Afghanistan War, the Israel-Palestine standoff," said Steve Clemons, ...

That has led to a dynamic of Washington pressing for greater liberties throughout the region while gently reminding the parties that the United States will continue to preserve its interests, said Steve Clemons, an influential foreign policy analyst ...

The statement was at "a higher decibel level", said Steve Clemens of the New America Foundation, a Washington-based think tank. But it fell short of calling ...

... "The mystique of America's superpower status has been shattered," said Steve Clemons, director of the American Strategy Program of the New America Foundation, who has attended two meetings with the National Security Council on Egypt. ...

... Mubarak’s stance has put the U.S. into an “enormous bind,” said Steven Clemons, an analyst at the Washington-based research organization New America Foundation who has been meeting with National Security Council officials. ...

... Steve Clemons of the New America Foundation says the White House is nonetheless considering how to engage with political Islam. ...

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"Today, Reagan is the flavour of the decade," said Steve Clemons, publisher of The Washington Note, a political website. "He was a transformational president whose leadership style made Americans forget about high interest rates and the humiliation that came from the Iran hostage crisis and rather to become swept up in a campaign about national greatness. That's why they are fighting today over his legacy." ...

Clashes between protesters and government supporters intensified Thursday in central Cairo and began to spread around the city. Meanwhile, the government claimed foreigners were partly to blame for more than a week of demonstrations demanding the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, the country's ruler for nearly three decades. 

The ongoing turmoil raises numerous questions about what really is happening now and where it will lead. Here are some answers:

Steve Clemons of the New America Foundation, one of several Middle East experts who met with Obama and his advisers on Monday, said the president and his ...