Outside the Beltway

“I don’t condone leaking secrets. But nor do I condone a policy that can only work in secret.” – Bernard Finel

Will the Wikileaks document dump give even further impetus to the growing sentiment that the United States needs to leave Afghanistan ?

Today’s outrage of the day comes in the form of a new report claiming that the United States supported the release of the only man accused. But the report itself proves that isn’t what happened.

The scumbags at WikiLeaks have published a huge trove of classified documents provided to them by one or more traitors in our military.

Contrary to what you read on bumper stickers, retired Lt. Col William Astore argues that not every soldier is a hero. He’s right.

With everyone concerned about the budget deficit, the idea of cutting military spending is finally gaining traction on Capitol Hill.

Feldpost für unsere Soldaten is a campaign recognizing the sacrifices of German soldiers fighting in Afghanistan.

Recently Lt. Dan Choi chained himself to the White House fence to protest Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Yesterday, he found out that he’d been discharged from the Army because he’s gay.

Will a debate over foreign policy tear apart the GOP ? Probably not.

Stan McChrystal’s boys had “Team America” patches made up.

As if the Gulf Oil Spill weren’t enough, there are now allegations that BP played a role in the release of the only man convicted in the murder of 190 Americans.

Since 9/11 there has been a steady trickle of stories about jihadists hooking up with Latin American drug cartels and the like. Here is a guide of story points that can help you identify when such a story is almost certainly bogus.

There is an al Qaeda link to yesterday’s terrorist attack in Uganda.

Some people are saying that David Petraeus deserves promotion to a rank last held by Omar Bradley.

The Taliban have a new secret weapon: Monkey terrorist soldiers.

Is Ann Coulter’s defense of Michael Steele’s Afghan War skepticism the beginning of conservative split, or just an attempt to pile on President Obama ?

The members of the Russian spy ring broken up last week by the FBI are headed back to Mother Russia.

General James Mattis, who some feel was snubbed for Marine Commandant last month, has landed in arguably a more important role: succeeding David Petraeus at CENTCOM.

General Petraeus is in charge in Afghanistan! What exactly does this change?

We need to ask ourselves some tough questions on Afghanistan.

It turns out that Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi isn’t dying after all, at least not any faster than any other human being.

It’s going to be much harder for reporters to get access to the military thanks to new rules announced last night by the Pentagon.

Once again, the knives are out for Michael Steele after his recent Afghanistan gaffe.

Some cops apparently still haven’t figured out that it’s legal to take pictures in public places — even of cops.

The Chairman of the RNC is expressing doubts about America’s war effort in Afghanistan.

NATO should resist preemptively declaring cyber attacks “an attack on all” members under Article 5.

Did the American media cover up torture by the Bush Administration?

Stanley McChrystal will be allowed to retire as a four-star general rather than suffer the indignity of being reduced to his permanent grade.

The testiest exchange during today’s hearings in the Senate came when Jeff Sessions tried to confront Elena Kagan over military recruiting at Harvard Law School, and failed miserably.

Ten Russian agents posing as Americans and living in the suburbs of DC, New York, and Boston for a decade to glean valuable intelligence have been arrested by the FBI.

Is political office in Stan McChrystal’s future?

Are new war strategies putting too much strain on commanders in the field ?

The public is growing tired of America’s Longest War.

Does it matter if the controversial McChrystal comments were “off the record” ? No, it doesn’t.

Despite repeated promises to the contrary, the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay will be remaining open indefinitely.

The odds that David Petraeus will be able to pull off a miracle in Afghanistan like he did in Iraq are very slim.

David Petraeus says he supports the President’s Afghanistan policy, including the withdrawal timetable, but that means less than most people think it does.

Retired Special Forces colonel and Defense Senior Executive Pat Lang joins us to talk about — well, you know damned well what we’ll be talking about.

President Obama has relieved General Stanley Chrystal of command of ISAF.

Stanley McChrystal is being called to face Obama’s national security team this morning. They should take the opportunity to come up with coherent Afghanistan policy.