Outside the Beltway

ISIS has captured Ramadi, and revealed yet again how fractured Iraq actually is. Fixing that isn’t something that American aid or arms can accomplish.

Marco Rubio is often described as one of the GOP’s leaders on foreign policy, but a close look reveals a decided lack of substance.

America’s longest war continues.

ISIS owns more territory than it did when the US bombing campaign began.

As things stand right now, there is no legitimate legal authorization for the President’s war against ISIS, and that’s largely because Congress has failed to act.

Mission creep.

Quietly, oil prices have been falling for months now. That’s potentially a very big deal.

So far at least, the air strikes against Islamic State positions in Syria do not seem to be having much of an impact.

Apparently, the buck doesn’t stop in the Oval Office these days.

President Obama has opened a new front in his “war” against ISIS

Obama’s current policy—tactical level strikes with no obvious long-term strategic aim—may well be the best we can hope for.

The United States is, in fact, doing the exact opposite.

Iraq’s problems cannot be fixed by the United States.

President Obama doesn’t seem to have any idea what he wants to do in Iraq.

For the second time in just over ten years, the United States is involved in military action in Iraq.

Iraq continues to fall apart.

Is ISIS’s reach about to exceed its grasp?

My latest for The National Interest, “Neoconservatives, the Iraq Debate and Ad Hominem Attacks,” has posted.

The Kentucky Senator and former Vice-President are at the front of a battle that will unfold inside the GOP as we head toward 2016.

Some questions for the Republicans who would be President about the actions of the last Republican President.

Not surprisingly, Bill Clinton is the most admired recent President according to a new poll, but his predecessor seems to be underrated.

If President Obama does decide to use military force in Iraq, he should be required to seek Congressional approval beforehand.

Iraq’s Prime Minister seems to be responding to the uprising in his country in a way guaranteed to make it worse.

Will ISIS be able to consolidate and hold the territory it’s taken in Iraq?

Iraq is falling apart for reasons that have nothing to do with President Obama or his policies.

It’s sure beginning to look like a civil war in Iraq, albeit a rather one sided one at the moment.

The Iraqi government seems to be panicking.

Things only seem to be getting worse in Iraq.

Contrary to the oft-repeated slogan, the United States has negotiated with terrorists before. And we will do it again.

If you’re still not convinced that we lost the war in Iraq, this should settle the argument.

United States helped Saddam Hussein launch some of the worst chemical attacks in history against Iran.

Megan Welter served as a Signal Corps officer in the Iraq War. Now, she’s an Arizona Cardinals cheerleader.

As many as 500 convicted al Qaeda terrorists were released Sunday night as part of a surge of violence that has killed thousands since April.

Frustrations with the mercurial leader of Afghanistan may increase the pace of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.