Outside the Beltway

Mitt Romney’s confrontational approach to Russia makes no sense.

Mitt Romney believes he could take America to war without Congressional involvement.

If the Department of Justice does not fully comply with Congressional subpoenas, then there seems to be no alternative other than holding the Attorney General in contempt.

The United States may have slowed down Iran’s nuclear program without firing a shot–not counting the one at our own foot.

The first shots have been fired in cyberspace. How will it end?

The New York Times finds some infighting among old Republican foreign policy hands.

Romney comes down firmly on the guns side of guns and butter.

Meet Flame. A cyber threat that makes Stuxnet seem like child’s play.

Is there a Romney Doctrine?

My first piece for the Christian Science Monitor, co-authored with my Atlantic Council collegue Barry Pavel, has been posted.

Mitt Romney is proposing one of the biggest peacetime increases in military spending in U.S. history.

Iran’s path to a nuclear bomb isn’t as easy as most think, Jacques Hymans argues in the current Foreign Policy.

We seldom blame presidents for bold actions that go wrong. We despise them for appearing weak and indecisive.

Does the Romney campaign know the USSR doesn’t exist anymore? Of course they do, but the language they use still means something.

Lt Gen Benny Gantz says Iran “is going step by step to the place where it will be able to decide whether to manufacture a nuclear bomb. It hasn’t yet decided to go the extra mile.”

Despite their rhetoric, there would be few differences between a Romney Administration and an Obama Administration when it comes to foreign policy.

In reality, it probably doesn’t,

Once again, those predictions of $5.00 gas may have been much ado about nothing.

OTB’s comment section as a microcosm of the American political landscape.

There’s a big hole in the latest sanctions against Iran.

The wonderfully wry British media strikes again with the BBC headline “Soviet ex-KGB chief Leonid Shebarshin ‘kills himself'”

Russia is the most significant geopolitical player actively opposing significant American interests.

Mitt Romney called Russia our “number one geopolitical foe.” Is he right?

An attack on Iran is likely to unleash consequences that we are unprepared to deal with.

No, the Obama Administration is not plotting to nationalize the economy in the name of some “national emergency.”

Despite how it many have seemed in January, Ron Paul’s 2012 Presidential effort is ending just about the same way his 2008 effort did.

There will be no more GOP candidate debates. That’s not necessarily a good thing.

The cause of the pain you’re feeling at the pump has little to do with domestic energy policy.

Is the rhetoric in the war of words between the U. S. and Iran ratcheting up?

47 percent of Americans disapprove of President Obama’s performance.

Rising fuel prices are starting to hurt the President in the polls, but it’s unclear what that means for November.

The notion that the President of the United States can guarantee a given per gallon price of gas is a fantasy (and, quite frankly, a lie).

There are all manner of myths that are held by supporters of both parties. Debunking them is not the role for presidential aspirants.

Did Ronald Reagan’s impending inauguration help get our hostages released after 444 days?

The differences between the parties when it comes to Iran are far less substantial than the candidate’s rhetoric would suggest.

Mitt Romney outlines his plan for dealing with Iran.

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

Peter Berkowitz has presented a flawed legal argument for attacking Iran.

The GOP has sold its soul.

This is one of the most draw-droppingly stupid 29 seconds I have experienced in some time.