Outside the Beltway

In both Egypt and Syria, it’s damned if we do and damned if we don’t.

The U.S. is now confirming that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons. What’s next?

Former President Bill Clinton says President Obama should ignore the polls and intervene in Syria.

Has the West inadvertently handed Iran a victory in Syria?

The same story yet again.

Syria’s violence is slipping across it’s borders.That’s not good news at all.

Is the White House distancing itself from the President’s “red line” remarks about Syria?

Arming the Syrian rebels may do nothing more than prolong a seemingly endless war, and pull the United States into a conflict it shouldn’t be involved in.

President Obama may regret drawing a line in the sand over Syrian chemical weapons.

The smear campaign against defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel has taken a bizarre turn.

The son of a former Israeli Prime Minister proposes an utterly insane idea.

The conflict between Israel and Hamas appears to be heading in one unfortunate direction.

The argument that the United States should start assisting the rebellion in Syria has many flaws.

General Martin Dempsey, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, sent a message to Israel last week.

A new IAEA report may make an Israeli strike on Iran in the near future more likely than it has ever been.

President Obama issued a warning to Syria today over its chemical weapons stockpiles.

Several key members of the Syrian government were killed in a suicide bomb attack today in Damascus.

US Army Special Forces are the best we have at working with far-flung villagers. Are they good enough?

Arizona’s senior Senator want’s to bomb Syria.

Yet another sign that international intervention in Syria is most likely never going to happen.

An attack against Iran’s nuclear weapons research facility won’t be an easy thing.

It’s time for another round of speculation about Iran and its nuclear program.

The world is starting to denounce the crackdown in Syria, but the reaction seems unlikely to go much beyond strongly worded statements.

President Obama doubled down in his speech before this year’s AIPAC conference. Why he did so only he understands.

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

The U.S. seems to be on the verge of changing war strategies in Libya, even as it becomes clear that these rebels aren’t necessarily our friends.

As allied involvement in Libya’s civil war increases, there are signs that the rebels may not be able to close the deal.

Warren Christopher, Bill Clinton’s first Secretary of State, has died at 85.

Glenn Beck seems to have more in common with End Time preachers than he does with a serious political analyst.

Anti-government protests raged in Egypt for a second day, and nobody seems to know where they’re headed.

Thirty years after the hostages were freed from captivity in Iran, the United States still hasn’t figured out how to deal with the Islamic Republic.

The lawyer who argued The Pentagon Papers case points out how Julian Assange is not Daniel Ellsberg, and how prosecuting him could have disastrous results for press freedom in the United States.

Sarah Palin waded into the foreign policy pool today with a piece about Iran, and it was about as empty as most of the other ideas on Iran that we’ve heard over the last six years or so from everyone else.

Israelis and Palestinians don’t agree on much these days, but they do agree that Barack Obama hasn’t helped the peace process at all since coming to office.

Will Israel attack Iran ? You’d better hope not.