Outside the Beltway

Foreign Policy’s David Kenner has a reading list for President Obama to help him get read for his big speech to recast our relationship with the Arab world. Topping the Persian Gulf section is Crossroads Arabia, by our own John Burgess.

Texas Congressman Ron Paul, who will enter the Presidential race tomorrow, says he wouldn’t have tried to have Osama bin Laden killed.

I’ve begun to wonder about the future of U. S. security policy. This isn’t a serious analytical post; it’s just what I call “musing”—committing disorganized thoughts to writing.

Why the United States has found itself in a seemingly endless series of wars over the past two decades.

Did a deal between the U.S. and Pakistan during the infancy of the war against al Qaeda play a role in the raid against Osama bin Laden?

Pakistan is trying to explain how the world’s most wanted man was able to hide in plain sight for six years, and failing badly.

Santorum has an interesting theory about the decline of great powers.

The free world rallied around the United States after the 9/11 attacks–but not all back the killing of the man who ordered it.

The question of how the world’s most wanted man could’ve hidden in plain sight in Pakistan continues to be asked.

Changing our relationship status to Complicated.

Bin Laden spent the last half-decade in a compound where his only contact with the outside world was a few couriers.

How exactly was the most wanted man in the world able to hide in this house without anyone in Pakistan knowing about it?

A Pakistani man named Sohaib Athar unwittingly became part of history in the early hours of Sunday morning when he started telling twitter about some odd events in Abbotabad, Pakistan

Breaking News.

Congress is coming back to Washington and gas prices continue to rise. Expect a lot of demagoguery, but very little in the way of solutions.

Britain’s Prince William marries Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey, giving her a ring of Welsh gold.

You thought the birther insanity was over? Silly you.

Will days of strong economic growth ever return? And what happens if they don’t?

Superman will renounce his American citizenship!

An aide’s compliment about the president “leading from behind” has generated controversy.

Singing the 1974 Carl Douglas classic “Kung Fu Fighting” can get you arrested in England.

President Obama is suffering in the polls because of high gas prices, but is there really anything he can do about them?

The NYT says it’s time for U. S. advisers and military air traffic controllers on the ground in Libya.

Events in Syria, and the world’s response to them, are revealing the moral bankruptcy of the justification for the war in Libya.

The Pentagon is frustrated that the Obama administration doesn’t “seem to understand what military force can and cannot do.”

Is there a magic formula to fix soaring gas prices? A Washington Examiner editorial claims to have found it.