Outside the Beltway

The Administration’s policy in the President’s war against ISIS has no coherent plan, and that virtually guarantees escalation.

Before leaving office, Hamid Karzai is once again biting that hand that has fed him for the past decade.

The war against ISIS continues to silently escalate, with little input from the people’s representatives in Congress.

As we head into a new conflict, perhaps we ought to give more thought to fiscal issues than the President is to overall strategy.

President Obama has opened a new front in his “war” against ISIS

President Obama is still insisting that his war against ISIS will not require American ground troops. He’s not being honest with the American people.

President Obama hits new job approval lows, while the GOP seems poised for success in November,

Everyone knows that Israel has had nuclear weapons for decades. Don’t tell anyone—it’s a secret.

So much for the President’s promise about ‘no ground troops.’

Iran and the United States are on the same side in the fight against ISIS, whether they like it or not.

After keeping his distance from them for three years, President Obama is placing much misplaced hope in the “moderate” Syrian rebels,

The Army brass is worried about its diversity in critical mid-level posts.

Despite the President’s assurances of an international coalition, the rest of the world doesn’t seem all that interested in joining the fight.

The Obama Administration’s legal justification for war against ISIS is laughably flimsy.

The plan won’t achieve achieve its stated goals.

The Global War on Terror isn’t over after all.

If the President is going to increase American involvement in the Middle East, he needs to address some fundamental questions first.

Congress seems ready to avoid having to vote on expanded attacks against the Islamic State

It would appear that someone needs to introduce the Air Force to Article VI of the Constitution.

Dan Froomkin says Obama is as bad as Bush, if not worse.

Obama’s current policy—tactical level strikes with no obvious long-term strategic aim—may well be the best we can hope for.

Massive US intervention has for now liberated Amerli, averting humanitarian disaster. Another crisis looms.

Is the West next in ISIS’s crosshairs?

As talk begins of expanding the war against ISIS into Syria, it is becoming long past time for Congress to exercise its Constitutional function.

The General Accounting Office confirmed what seems clear to anyone who can read a statute.

American journalist James Foley has been beheaded by the terrorist network calling itself the Islamic State.

17-year veteran of the LAPD says, “If you don’t want to get hurt, don’t challenge me.”

Dispelling a rising myth,

The rebels in eastern Ukraine continue to suffer setbacks, and Russia is massing troops on the border again.

Does Hillary Clinton remember that she was Secretary of State for four years?

Iraq’s problems cannot be fixed by the United States.

President Obama doesn’t seem to have any idea what he wants to do in Iraq.

For the second time in just over ten years, the United States is involved in military action in Iraq.

Viet Xuan Luong pins on a brigadier general’s star today, becoming the first Vietnamese-American officer to achieve that rank.

Once again, Republicans demonstrate why they have problems with Latino voters.

The war in Gaza seems to be winding down, but the underlying issues remain.

Some words from the past, apparently uttered mere hours before the world changed forever.

The C.I.A. has admitted spying on Senate investigators.