Outside the Beltway

The Romney campaign is doubling down on bizarre foreign policy pronouncements.

If the United States and Egypt were Facebook friends, their relationship status would be “It’s Complicated.”

The career of Larry Schwartz, who is the Counselor for Public Affairs at the US Embassy in Cairo, is over.

Senator Rand Paul suggests the GOP may want to reconsider its foreign policy aggressiveness.

Mitt Romney’s foreign policy weaknesses are starting to become apparent.

A day of protests over a film nobody has ever heard of has lead to the death of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya.

The 9/11 attacks and our response to them changed America, and not for the better.

Not surprisingly, a new study finds that repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell has not caused any harm to the military.

6% of Ohio voters think Mitt Romney deserves more credit than the commander-in-chief for killing Osama bin Laden.

An attack on Iran’s nuclear program would be far more complicated than a one-off attack.

Based on its recently passed platform, the Democratic Party has given up any pretense of putting civil liberties ahead of “national security.”

Challenge the ideas of those with whom you disagree, not their patriotism, decency, or integrity.

John Nagl, who became famous as a leading counterinsurgency theorist and practitioner, is taking on a new challenge: grooming young boys for life.

General Martin Dempsey, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, sent a message to Israel last week.

A new IAEA report may make an Israeli strike on Iran in the near future more likely than it has ever been.

My latest for The Atlantic, “Stop Feeling Sorry for American Veterans, has posted.

The GOP claims to be a party that favors limited government, but its foreign policy positions reveal this to be little more than a lie.

Left with a choice between their hawkish foreign policy and their supposed commitment to fiscal conservatives, Republicans will, without fail, spend the nation into debt.

Today’s convention activities will include the opening salvos of an attack on the President’s foreign policy. This strikes me as a mistake.

An Atlantic story on veterans returning to college is both poignant and miscast.

A new book by one of the Navy SEALs involved in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden differs significantly from the official version put forward by the government.

Security at the Republican Convention in Tampa looks more like a war zone than a political convention in a democratic republic.

The Republican Party has apparently solved all of the nation’s real problems and decided it can waste time on nonsense.

Four idiot privates from Fort Stewart planned to take over the base, kill the president, and take over the government.

Justin Strine spent part of the summer in jail for violent mayhem but doesn’t understand why he’s unfit to be an Army officer.

To much fanfare, President Obama announced a shift in Afghan War policy in December 2009. There’s little evidence it’s worked.

A former Obama official says government should learn from business, but is private industry really more efficient?

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs has a message for those who wear and have worn our country’s uniform: “We are not elected to serve; rather, we elect to serve.”

The candidates aren’t talking about the war in Afghanistan very much, but that’s mostly because the American people don’t want them to.

President Obama issued a warning to Syria today over its chemical weapons stockpiles.

Since most pedophiles are men, Virgin airlines naturally treats all men as potential pedophiles.

Charges that the Obama administration leaked classified information about the Osama bin Laden raid for political gain are bunk.