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?

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?

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

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.

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.

I must confess to having only paid peripheral attention at first, but it is clear that there is a major story here that requires attention.

Our good ally Pakistan has publicly ordered us to leave a base used for “covert” CIA drone attacks.

The government in northern Sudan is engaging in military attacks against the people of Southern Kordofan.

Our patience with those who repeatedly hijack the discussion thread to detract from the topic at hand has ended, effective immediately.

The United States is pressuring the Netanyahu government to move off its hard line.

American drone strikes in Yemen are intensifying. Is this a new war. or just the same one we’ve been fighting since October 2001?

A passenger started a fight over a reclined airplane seat, causing fighter planes to scramble.

Glenn Greenwald asks two questions about the cases of Osama bin Laden and Ratko Mladic. Helpfully, the second answers the first.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul wants a full debate on the PATRIOT Act. What’s Congress so afraid of?

Frank R. Lindh, father of Abu Sulayman al-Irlandi (aka Sulayman al-Faris, Abdul Hamid, and John Walker Lindh) has an op-ed in the NYT asking “Bin Laden’s Gone. Can My Son Come Home?” The answer is, sure: In another 8 to 11 years.

Marc Thiessen claims Khalid Sheikh Mohammad mocked the CIA interrogators who waterboarded him.