Outside the Beltway

The media is now starting to look at it’s own role in the whole Koran burning story, but the truth is that there really wasn’t any way they could’ve ignored the story.

Lost amidst the welcome news of British-French cooperation on military cost-sharing in some tough talk from their ministers of defense on NATO.

Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has proclaimed, “The most significant threat to our national security is our debt.” Is he right?

Epic flooding in Pakistan is a humanitarian crisis which dwarfs the combined devastation of the 2004 Asian tsunami, the earthquake in Pakistan in 2005, and the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Why aren’t we paying attention?

The United States has promised $150 million in aid to flood-ravaged Pakistan. Should we have?

Either Obama’s Defense Secretary and commanding general are conspiring to undermine his July 11 deadline for withdrawal from Afghanistan or that they’re carrying out his intent.

Every new report out of Iran seems to bring us closer to the moment when Israel has decided it’s heard enough. What happens if that day actually happens ?

Holland became the first NATO member to pull out of Afghanistan. How long before the rest follow?

Three different ways they’re viewing the leaked “war logs” across the Pond.

The scumbags at WikiLeaks have published a huge trove of classified documents provided to them by one or more traitors in our military.

Daniel Schorr’s journalism career ended far too early, lasting a mere eighty-one years.

Now we’re doubling down on the Karzai government.

Stan McChrystal’s boys had “Team America” patches made up.

Matt Yglesias argues that “Northern Europe is Egalitarian Because of High Taxes.” I would argue that he has his causality backwards.

We need to ask ourselves some tough questions on Afghanistan.

NATO should resist preemptively declaring cyber attacks “an attack on all” members under Article 5.

The federation governing international soccer joins a long list of international institutions — NATO, the G-8, the UN Security Council, and the EU come readily to mind — that need to be brought into the 21st century.

Does it matter if the controversial McChrystal comments were “off the record” ? No, it doesn’t.

Stanley McChrystal is being called to face Obama’s national security team this morning. They should take the opportunity to come up with coherent Afghanistan policy.

General Stanley McChrystal has not only likely ended his career but seriously damaged the already dimming chances of success in Afghanistan.