Outside the Beltway

We tortured some folks.

What happens at the 60 day mark of the Iran War? Nothing.

A requiem for something lost.

The state of being too big to care.

We have a problem, but we aren’t even trying to address it.

Also, this Just In: WWII Was 80 Years Ago

“Major combat operations” are underway.

This isn’t problematic at all…

An oft-misunderstood legal principle.

“When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.”

We’ve seen this movie before.

(More than) 12 Tomahawks a-bombing.

Cruelty in service of nativist purity.

A clear violation of the laws of war. But do they apply?

The State Department will be pressing our closest allies to control their borders.

“What are they going to do? Say, ‘Gee, we don’t want to stop drugs pouring in?’”

The SOUTHCOM commander has resigned and the Senate is debating, but it won’t matter.

The obvious has been made expllicit.

There are no satisfying answers.

The last survivors want us to remember the horrors of nuclear war.

No. But it won’t matter.

Will the Netanyahu government double down on its weakening of Iran?

Then process gets in the way of efficiency, kill the process.

The postwar era may have ended yesterday.

Peace, for a time.