Outside the Beltway

Establishing a no-fly zone isn’t likely to be enough to remove the current Libyan regime from power.

Over the past two days, Sarah Palin has become the center of the media firestorm over the tragic shootings in Arizona, she doesn’t belong there.

The two English language newspapers who have been Julian Assange’s accomplices in disseminating stolen secrets defend themselves.

Afghans in two crucial southern provinces are almost completely unaware of the September 11 attacks on the United States and don’t know they precipitated the foreign intervention now in its 10th year, a new report showed on Friday.

Hamid Karazi says that the United States needs to reduce it’s military presence in his country. Perhaps we should listen to him.

According to reports, the Obama Administration is set to abandon the July 2011 withdrawal deadline that was set earlier this year.

The military surge in Afghanistan appears to be having little impact on the Taliban.

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates acknowledged in a newly released letter that the Wikileaks Afghan War document dump wasn’t as damaging as the Pentagon initially claimed. So what was the uproar all about?

Will Israel attack Iran ? You’d better hope not.

AP staff have been instructed “combat in Iraq is not over, and we should not uncritically repeat suggestions that it is, even if they come from senior officials. The situation on the ground in Iraq is no different today than it has been for some months.”

Barack Obama has significantly widened his predecessor’s global war on terrorism, even if he’s no longer calling it that.

Now we’re doubling down on the Karzai government.

We need to ask ourselves some tough questions on Afghanistan.

Are new war strategies putting too much strain on commanders in the field ?

The odds that David Petraeus will be able to pull off a miracle in Afghanistan like he did in Iraq are very slim.