Outside the Beltway

For a peace envoy, Blair has some nonpeaceful ideas.

Killing’s our business and business is good.

Are colleges teaching the right lessons about the 9/11 attacks?

Flashback: When David Petraeus was simply known as “Peaches” & was a member of the “French Club”

What does the apparent outcome of the war in Libya mean for the so-called “Responsibility To Protect” doctrine?

Understanding why your enemy hates you seems to be an important thing, but some people would rather believe in caricatures.

Ron Paul is again making the argument that American foreign policy has contributed to terrorism. He’s more right than wrong.

The U.S may be on the verge of committing the next decade to the future of Afghanistan.

Is the NYPD becoming too much like the CIA?

Success in Libya does not make the American mission any less unjustified than it was on the day President Obama announced it.

Does Bachmann think the USSR is on the rise? I expect not, but her defense and fiscal policy skills still need some work.

Not only is the US outspending all our allies and competitors combined in real dollars on defense, we’re doing so in terms of GDP as well.

President Obama’s job approval numbers are even worse when you just look at the economy.

DARPA has a revolving door that doesn’t revolve.

Rick Perry declared, “One of the reasons that I’m running for president is I want to make sure that every young man and woman who puts on the uniform of the United States respects highly the president of the United States.”

Iraq has become so dependent on Iran for its survival that it is endorsing the brutal tactics of Bashar Assad.

Honoring the fallen by ensuring that the didn’t die in vain is a recipe for getting more good men killed.

The defense spending lobby is already engaging in fear-mongering over very modest defense cuts.

A disastrous day for American troops in Afghanistan.

The general made famous by his leadership of the Katrina effort has some harsh words for our political leadership.

The cuts to Pentagon spending in the new debt deal are further revealing a split in the GOP over foreign policy and military spending.

The Air Force has suspended a course that teaches nuclear officers that Christian ethics permit them to do their job.

Vice President Biden has called Congressional Republicans and their Tea Party backers “terrorists.”

It is always useful to go inside the numbers.

News that Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik was a fan of anti-Islamist sites, including Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch and Pamela Geller’s Atlas Shrugs has opened a big can of schadenfreude.

A legendary American soldier, General John Shalikashvili, has died.

The death toll in Norway’s deadliest day of terrorism is up to 91. The man behind it, 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik, is a frequent poster of anti-Muslim screeds on Christian fundamentalist websites.

A bomb blast in Oslo’s government center has killed at least two people and a presumably related shooting spree at a nearby children’s camp are being investigated as terrorist related.