Outside the Beltway

Conservatives have their own Kennedy myth to compete with the myth of Camelot.

Some thoughts on a decade old video in which Samantha Power speculates on actions to take against an unfolding genocide.

Signs and portents in the Middle East.

The Hagel confirmation, like Obama’s election, was big news to some avid news consumers.

Mitt Romney’s speech at VMI today was billed as a major foreign policy address, but it was incredibly light on substance.

My latest for The Atlantic, “What Would Romney’s Foreign Policy Look Like?” has posted.

The New York Times finds some infighting among old Republican foreign policy hands.

Jennifer Rubin accuses Colin Powell of political opportunism for hedging on whether to renew his endorsement of Barack Obama.

Is there a Romney Doctrine?

2012 may be the last chance for the current Republican Party to win the White House.

Herman Cain’s promise to rely on “experts” should raise eyebrows everywhere.

Herman Cain’s foreign policy consists of little more than deliberate ignorance.

My latest for The Atlantic, “Romney’s Realist Foreign Policy Is a Lot Like Obama’s,” has been posted.

The cuts to Pentagon spending in the new debt deal are further revealing a split in the GOP over foreign policy and military spending.

For the first time since the end of World War II, the GOP is wrestling with two diametrically opposed visions of foreign affairs.

WaPo’s Jackson Diehl asks, “Will the GOP nominate a dove?”

Elias Isquith proclaims my Atlantic essay “How Perpetual War Became U.S. Ideology” to be “a total disaster.”

An aide’s compliment about the president “leading from behind” has generated controversy.

Sarah Palin is among a group of Republicans concerned that the Tea Party movement’s fiscal conservatism could pose a danger to defense spending.