Outside the Beltway

It’s not an unprecedented stance.

Thousands of job cuts are envisioned.

The bad guys are having a bad week.

Thinking out loud, as one does.

His former National Security Advisor is not impressed.

Two related questions.

The perils of speaking loudly while carrying a small stick.

A man made famous for discovering Iraq’s WMD program was virtually nonexistent is gone at 82.

The Russian leader is very unlikely to be hauled before the Hague.

The most likely outcome is not a happy one.

Strikes near the Polish border show the real possibility of escalation.

Whether dupes or active participants, the damage is real (and points us back to 2016).

The first shoe has dropped.

The United States and its NATO allies are in a dangerous standoff.

The Vietnam War hero and one-term Georgia Senator has died at 79.

A blast from the past.

He was both the youngest and oldest man to run the Pentagon.

The fecklessness of U.S. human rights policy in full display.

Some informed speculation.

President Trump says that he would not spy on a rival regime like North Korea, once again making one wonder where his loyalties lie.

While he campaigned on a message of restraint, Donald Trump has largely adopted the interventionist foreign policies of his predecessors.

The Trump Administration still doesn’t have realistic goals for its negotiations with North Korea.

George H.W. Bush,, who served his nation as a warrior, Congressman, Ambassador, Vice-President, and President, has died at the age of 94.

One hundred years after the end of World War One, the forces that led to it are waking up from a long slumber.

Kofi Annan, who served as Secretary-General of the United Nations at the dawn of the “War On Terror,” has died at the age of 80.