Outside the Beltway

The Obama Administration’s response to the Benghazi attack is approaching critical mass. It’s not going away any time soon.

Republicans looking to Benghazi for political ammunition are likely going to be disappointed.

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.

The world oil markets aren’t too far away from being hit by the shock of massively increased demand from China. Somehow, we’ll have to adapt.

A new poll shows that 62% of Americans oppose American military intervention in Syria’s civil war.

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

Has Bashar al-Assad crossed the red line drawn by President Obama? And does it matter?

There seems to be an effort underway to reassess the legacy of our 43rd President.

Pretending like the Bush administration never happened is a problem for the GOP.

My latest for The National Interest, “Ignoring the Hagel Hearing Farce,” has posted.

The notion that guns prevent tyranny is based on fantasy and movies, not reality.

Killing their leaders doesn’t seem to be impacting the ability of jihadi groups to recruit and motivate more terrorists.

Would a formal guarantee of Israel’s security deter Iran from whatever nuclear weapons development program it has?

Last January 1, some of us made a series of predictions. Here’s how we did.

John Cornyn tells Jennifer Rubin that he’ll oppose the confirmation of his former colleague, Chuck Hagel, for Secretary of Defense.

While no official announcements have been made, President Obama’s second term national security team appears to be taking shape.

Richard Lugar puts in a word for compromise and good governance on his way out of the Senate.

Thanks to the CFTC, Americans will no longer be able to participate in Intrade’s predictions markets.

Thinking about scandal in a comparative historic context.

If nothing else, the Petraeus affair is teaching us a valuable lesson in just how extensive the Surveillance State has become.

An attempt to lay down some basic groundwork for discussing this story.

Why I supported Mitt Romney despite his constant flip-flopping, fibbing, and fecklessness.

In a posting for New Atlanticist titled “Status Quo Election,” I note the near total absence of foreign affairs from a presidential campaign that’s mercifully coming to an end.

First in a series of posts looking at the substance of the final presidential debate, ostensibly about foreign policy.

The candidate’s meet for one last time tonight to talk about some of the most important issues in the world.