Outside the Beltway

Thinking about possible outcomes.

Cruz on supporting Israel.

Whatever that means.

We’re officially past rhyming and into history (or at least rhetoric) repeating.

The loss of many key leaders in short order is a serious problem.

Trump and Netanyahu do not see eye to eye on the matter.

The war is on.

Spoiler alert: the joke wasn’t funny

A major escalation in Middle East tensions is forecast.

Terrorism in Colorado. Continued awful violence in Gaza.

The country’s citizens are enduring power outages while Saudis are making deals for cutting-edge technology.

A snapshot from Saudi Arabia.

Who could have known?

Will the Netanyahu government double down on its weakening of Iran?

A little ethnic cleansing coming right up.

More outrageous behavior.

Deadlnes make deals.

The fall of the Assad regime is the end of the beginning.

A fifty-year dictatorship has been ousted. What now?

Another setback for Teheran.

Another huge blow against Iranian’s regional strategy.

Peace, for a time.

Has the calculus of either side changed?

Is Sinwar’s assassination an opening?

Another one bites the dust.

After years of proxy battles, Israel and Iran are on the brink of a direct fight.

Breaking News

What we know a day later.

The Israeli military says they got their man after years of intelligence collection.

The leading scholar on the subject dissents.

Taliban Edition

A massive follow-up to the exploding communications devices.

My thoughts on what we know now.

A massive Israeli operation. To what end?

Massive numbers are taking to the streets in protest.

Israeli forces recovered their bodies.

Another step closer to a regional war.

A bold strike that threatens to escalate a regional war.

The fight has now expanded to a third front.

The war cabinet is gone. He now owns the war completely.

The moderates are gone.

Joy of four returned safe is mixed with the reality of scores of dead Palestinians.

The President declares Hamas “no longer capable” of large-scale attack.

Some 45 are dead in what Israel calls a “tragic accident.”

The UN body cites violation of the Genocide Convention.

A small, conscript-driven military has very different training and doctrine than ours.

Eye-rolling moral equivalence that will lessen respect for international law.

A shocking development amidst regional turmoil.