Outside the Beltway

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,

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

“Can Domestic Policy Affect Income Distribution?” Why, yes, yes it can.

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.

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.

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.

We need to have opinions on a subject as serious as war with Iran.

Mitt Romney won big last night, Newt Gingrich was Newt Gingrich, and the race is coming to the beginning of the end.

Mitt Romney’s view of the ideal relationship between the United States and Israel is, at the very least. quite odd, and, potentially, dangerous.

One year later, Egypt’s revolution remains unfinished.

The truth about a Second Obama Term is that it likely wouldn’t be all that remarkable.

We, as a country, need to remember that do not hold levers that allow us to move events this way or that

Mitt Romney made a suggestion about how to fix our campaign finance system. It’s a good idea.

Rick Santorum’s foreign policy positions are troubling in many respects.

Rick Santorum has some bizarre views when it comes to the dispute between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

Mitt Romney said the other day that the 2012 Election is about “the soul of the country.” This is most assuredly not true.

Vehement disagreement with the policy views of a country and prejudice based on immutable traits are not the same.

A comment on the commentariat.

Iowa Republicans fear that a Ron Paul win on Jan. 3rd will destroy the credibility of their caucuses.

How much should Paul’s newletter and his questionable associations matter?

Yesterday’s encounter between Jon Huntsman and Newt Gingrich was less than it could have been.

Newt Gingrich’s comments about Palestinian nationhood came up during last night’s debate.

Once again, Newt Gingrich speaks without thinking.

Just a reminder: Turkey is a NATO ally.

There’s a little historical revisionism going on on the right.

I liveblogged and tweeted my instant, mostly snarky, reaction to the CNN foreign policy debate. Here are some more fully formed thoughts.

I’ll be liveblogging tonight’s Republican national security debate over at RealClearWorld along with a solid team of foreign policy analyst

The protesters have returned to Tahrir Square, and so has the violence.

We’re running out of excuses.