Outside the Beltway

A new report from the New York Times confirms the adage that, in war, the first casualty is the truth.

The Turks have entered the conflict in Syria. Unfortunately for the United States, it’s not on the side we would prefer.

The U.S. Air Campaign Against ISIS Is Much Bigger Than You Think

So far at least, the air strikes against Islamic State positions in Syria do not seem to be having much of an impact.

Remember the border crisis? Yea, it’s not much of a crisis these days.

ISIS at the Gates Edition.

A massacre is about to unfold “a stone’s throw” from Turkey’s border.

Germany’s new defense minister has promised a more robust role but lacks the ability to back her words with action.

Corporal Jordan Spears died in a V-22 accident in operations against the Islamic State.

It has nothing to do with winning, but it does have a lot to do with the foreign policy debate inside the Republican Party.

U.S. troops will be in Afghanistan for at least the next three years.

Apparently, the buck doesn’t stop in the Oval Office these days.

The American public’s support for the President’s war against ISIS has its limits.

The Khorasan Group is, functionally, al Qaeda. Or is it?

The Administration’s policy in the President’s war against ISIS has no coherent plan, and that virtually guarantees escalation.

The former Virginia Senator is talking about running for President.

The war against ISIS continues to silently escalate, with little input from the people’s representatives in Congress.

As we head into a new conflict, perhaps we ought to give more thought to fiscal issues than the President is to overall strategy.

The sixth year of a presidency leads to some predictable commentary (and some comparative notes).

While the world pays attention to Syria and Iraq, Yemen is once against lurching into chaos.

President Obama has opened a new front in his “war” against ISIS

The GOP has bounced back significantly from the lows it experienced after last year’s government shutdown.

President Obama is still insisting that his war against ISIS will not require American ground troops. He’s not being honest with the American people.

Everyone knows that Israel has had nuclear weapons for decades. Don’t tell anyone—it’s a secret.

So much for the President’s promise about ‘no ground troops.’

Iran and the United States are on the same side in the fight against ISIS, whether they like it or not.

After keeping his distance from them for three years, President Obama is placing much misplaced hope in the “moderate” Syrian rebels,

Despite the President’s assurances of an international coalition, the rest of the world doesn’t seem all that interested in joining the fight.

The Obama Administration’s legal justification for war against ISIS is laughably flimsy.

The plan won’t achieve achieve its stated goals.

The Global War on Terror isn’t over after all.

If the President is going to increase American involvement in the Middle East, he needs to address some fundamental questions first.

Congress seems ready to avoid having to vote on expanded attacks against the Islamic State

Dan Froomkin says Obama is as bad as Bush, if not worse.

Massive US intervention has for now liberated Amerli, averting humanitarian disaster. Another crisis looms.

Is the West next in ISIS’s crosshairs?

As talk begins of expanding the war against ISIS into Syria, it is becoming long past time for Congress to exercise its Constitutional function.

Some have argued that there is an historical bias against political parties holding on to the White House for more than two terms. As with most commonly held ideas, that simply isn’t true.

American journalist James Foley has been beheaded by the terrorist network calling itself the Islamic State.

Some on the left are saying that Hillary Clinton isn’t doing enough to help Democrats in 2014.

The chattering class is chattering about the President’s vacation again. It really is quite tiresome.

The shooting of Michael Brown is just another example of an ongoing problem.

Dispelling a rising myth,