Outside the Beltway

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

The regime we fought for in Iraq is now aiding the regime we’re fighting against (at least by proxy) in Syria.

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

Recent comments from Russian officials suggest that the nation may be preparing to cut its longtime ally loose.

The conflict between Israel and Hamas appears to be heading in one unfortunate direction.

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

President Obama is keeping the conflict in Syria at arms length. That’s a good idea.

The argument that the United States should start assisting the rebellion in Syria has many flaws.

One of Mitt Romney’s own supporters didn’t like his foreign policy speech very much.

Mitt Romney is once again making completely false claims about the status of the United States Navy.

For the fourth day, American and other embassies became the focus of mass protests in many Muslim nations.

Several key members of the Syrian government were killed in a suicide bomb attack today in Damascus.

US Army Special Forces are the best we have at working with far-flung villagers. Are they good enough?

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

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

Yet another sign that international intervention in Syria is most likely never going to happen.

For years, analysts have worried that Iraq’s tenuous hold on stability would collapse upon the withdrawal of US forces. We’re now watching it happen.

Conservative groups are upset because a new reality show depicts Muslim-Americans as, well, normal Americans.

We’re running out of excuses.

What’s the logic behind Iran’s alleged plot to commit terrorist attacks inside the United States?

Ron Paul is again making the argument that American foreign policy has contributed to terrorism. He’s more right than wrong.

The U.S. and its allies are calling on Bashar Assad to step down, but there’s little we can do when he says no.

The world is starting to denounce the crackdown in Syria, but the reaction seems unlikely to go much beyond strongly worded statements.

Tim Pawlenty’s foreign policy speech shows him siding with the hawks, and joining in the neocon distortion of Reagan’s legacy.

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

Senator Joe Lieberman said today that we should intervene in Syria using the same rationale we did for Libya. Because, you know, what’s the big deal about a fourth war?

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

The Obama Administration is asking the U.N. Security Council to authorize direct military intervention in Libya. The question is, why now?

If Mubarak is driven from power, will that make Egypt a case of “revolution”?

President Obama’s approval numbers have dropped 9 points since the Egypt crisis broke out.

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

Anti-government protests raged in Egypt for a second day, and nobody seems to know where they’re headed.

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.

Andrew Sullivan makes a rather bizarre charge offhandedly: “Who among the neocons would have thought that one of George W. Bush’s final legacies would be bringing pogroms, bombings and genocide to Christians in his new zone of freedom?”

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.