Outside the Beltway

President Obama’s ISIS policy has been far from perfect, but to call him a “Founder” of ISIS is to ignore both history and reality.

ISIS has captured Ramadi, and revealed yet again how fractured Iraq actually is. Fixing that isn’t something that American aid or arms can accomplish.

Apparently, the buck doesn’t stop in the Oval Office these days.

Iran and the United States are on the same side in the fight against ISIS, whether they like it or not.

The United States is, in fact, doing the exact opposite.

Iraq’s problems cannot be fixed by the United States.

President Obama doesn’t seem to have any idea what he wants to do in Iraq.

Crisis seems to be brewing all over the world, but the American people aren’t persuaded that it’s necessary for the United States to act.

Iraq continues to fall apart.

The Kentucky Senator and former Vice-President are at the front of a battle that will unfold inside the GOP as we head toward 2016.

Recent events in Iraq have opened up old domestic political arguments in the United States.

Iraq’s Prime Minister seems to be responding to the uprising in his country in a way guaranteed to make it worse.

Iraq is falling apart for reasons that have nothing to do with President Obama or his policies.

It’s sure beginning to look like a civil war in Iraq, albeit a rather one sided one at the moment.

The Iraqi government seems to be panicking.

Things only seem to be getting worse in Iraq.

Afghanistan’s outgoing President says that his nation doesn’t need American troops to stay after the end of the year.

The Iraqis need to learn to govern themselves, and conservatives blaming President Obama for renewed violence need a history lesson.

If you’re still not convinced that we lost the war in Iraq, this should settle the argument.

Shutting down media that the government doesn’t like is unlikely to solve the sectarian problems in Iraq.

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

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.

President Obama’s surprise announcement Friday that all U.S. forces would leave Iraq in time to be home for the holidays has been roundly condemned. While there are real concerns about what happens next, there was no better alternative.

President Obama is set to announce that all American troops will be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of the year.

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta gave the strongest signal ever that there will be some U.S. military presence in Iraq after December 31st.

Iraq has become so dependent on Iran for its survival that it is endorsing the brutal tactics of Bashar Assad.

Defense Secretary Gates hinted this week that the U.S. would stay in Iraq if the Iraqis wanted. It doesn’t seem like they do.

Moqtada al-Sadr is back in Iraq, and it’s a good thing we’re on our way out.

Iraq’s PM re-affirms Iraq’s commitment to the U. S. withdrawal date in the Status of Forces Agreement.

We already knew that Hamid Karzai was corrupt, now we know he takes bribes from the Iranians.

In what is being described as the largest leak of secret documents in U.S. history, Wikileaks has made public more than 400,000 documents related to the seven year long Iraq War.