Outside the Beltway

Why isn’t the GOP calling out religious bigotry from one of its candidates?

The United States is pressuring the Netanyahu government to move off its hard line.

It appears that the Syrian military is starting to fracture. Exactly how widespread this is remains to be seen.

Some people still think Mitt Romney’s religion is a relevant issue.

While President Obama has had some amusing gaffes on his trip to London, including getting the year wrong in the guest book and an awkward toast to the Queen, his speech to Parliament today hit all the right notes.

I get the impression that a lot of people don’t even know what “the 1967 borders” are or why they tend to be considered the logical point of departure for any type of peace negotiations.

When will the madness end?

The US-Israeli relationship is not one of equals.

President Obama doubled down in his speech before this year’s AIPAC conference. Why he did so only he understands.

Once again, an American President thinks he can bring peace to the Middle East.

Safia bin Laden says that her infamous father was caught alive by U.S. forces and murdered in cold blood.

Events in Syria, and the world’s response to them, are revealing the moral bankruptcy of the justification for the war in Libya.

The re-emergence of Obama foreign policy advisor Samantha Power to prominence has brought critics to the forefront

They say anyone can grow up to be president. Michele Bachmann is apparently taking them at their word.

Palin thinks Israel apologizes too much and it would seem that some find this to be a profound statement.

Warren Christopher, Bill Clinton’s first Secretary of State, has died at 85.

Who wants that job? (And is willing to work that hard to get it?)

Iran doesn’t like the logo for the London Olympics and is threatening to boycott if it isn’t changed.

Muslim cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi has issued a fatwa against Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi.

The Egyptian military is promising a quick transition to new civilian leadership. Will they live up to their promise?

Is American policy in the Middle East dictated by national interest or interest groups?

While most Americans consider themselves “conservatives,” some conservatives exclude most Americans from the definition.

The debate over Senator Rand Paul’s proposed $500 billion spending cut plan has focused almost exclusively on one issue, and one nation.

European subsidies have given Airbus a competitive advantage over America’s Boeing in commercial aircraft salesboein. The reverse is true on military aircraft.

One Republican Congressman is calling on President Obama to stand firmly behind our “friend” in Cairo, even though there’s little evidence we can trust him.

The US has limited influence over events in Egypt–something that recent history should underscore (although not everyone appears to understand this fact).

The Obama administration’s slow and cautious response to Egypt’s protest was frustrating. And correct.

Thirty years after the hostages were freed from captivity in Iran, the United States still hasn’t figured out how to deal with the Islamic Republic.

Time for midterms.

The Stuxnet virus that has set back the Iranian nuclear weapons program by several years at least appears to have originated as a joint project between the United States and Israel.

Sarah Palin waded into the foreign policy pool today with a piece about Iran, and it was about as empty as most of the other ideas on Iran that we’ve heard over the last six years or so from everyone else.