Outside the Beltway

Of leopards and faces.

No, I am not kidding.

The Congressman and Green Beret colonel will head Trump’s national security team.

It sounds the same in the original Russian.

It’s neither unprecedented nor powerful. It doesn’t exist.

After 29 days . . . a proportionate response.

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.

US and regional leaders are hoping for a limited operation.

What we know a day later.

The leading scholar on the subject dissents.

A massive follow-up to the exploding communications devices.

A massive Israeli operation. To what end?

Alan Dershowitz is trying to make up his mind.

Massive numbers are taking to the streets in protest.

Israeli forces recovered their bodies.

Another step closer to a regional war.

Or more charitably, forgets due to cognitive decline

A bold strike that threatens to escalate a regional war.

Running for President as Vice President is uniquely challenging.

The fight has now expanded to a third front.

Biden is old and in diminished capacity. His opponent is old, in diminished capacity, and a horrible human being.

The Gaza conflict has ousted a member of “the Squad.”

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.

It’s depressingly short.

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

A collection I started but didn’t fully finish.

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

After weeks of protest, a solid effort.

A shocking development amidst regional turmoil.

The Israeli government has no plan. Its defense minister does.

Are we avoiding facing hard truths?

The release of a second set of figures has created a lot of hyperbole.

Yesterday’s New Jersey speech was something to behold.

A Congressionally-mandated report finds “reasonable” evidence but acknowledges limitations.

Is Rafah the breaking point?

There is no obvious better state of the peace acceptable to both parties.

War crime does pay.

Neither side is willing to give up on its war aims just yet.

On the complexity of political funding.

Grouping House Members by their voting patterns.

This is only “one alternative, and this is being murdered.”