Outside the Beltway

North Korea’s nuclear weapons aren’t going anywhere.

Has the West inadvertently handed Iran a victory in Syria?

The wacko fringe of the GOP is increasingly finding room in the mainstream of the party.

Revisiting an old posting of mine on the subject.

Our current approach isn’t working.

So what, exactly, is going on in North Korea? And how should we respond to Kim’s bluster?

An American fighting with Syrian rebels faces life in prison for firing an RPG against a government we’re trying to oust.

Rand Paul’s filibuster is one that all American’s should thank him for that.

North Korea has conducted its third test of a nuclear weapon.

North Korea’s latest provocations may be testing the patience of their patrons in Beijing.

Would a formal guarantee of Israel’s security deter Iran from whatever nuclear weapons development program it has?

Sharing some thoughts and soliciting feedback on what the 2nd amendment means.

John Cornyn tells Jennifer Rubin that he’ll oppose the confirmation of his former colleague, Chuck Hagel, for Secretary of Defense.

In a posting for New Atlanticist titled “Status Quo Election,” I note the near total absence of foreign affairs from a presidential campaign that’s mercifully coming to an end.

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

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

Iran’s currency has collapsed and there are riot police in the streets of Teheran. It appears the sanctions may just be working after all.

Where’s the beef?

Because some things are worth reinforcing.

My latest for The National Interest, “Insanity on the Iran Question,” posted last evening.

In another sign that things may not be going so well between Washington and Jerusalem, President Obama will not be meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu when he’s in the United States.

An attack on Iran’s nuclear program would be far more complicated than a one-off attack.

A new IAEA report may make an Israeli strike on Iran in the near future more likely than it has ever been.

Some troubling, sad, and downright puzzling stories

The war in Afghanistan has not been a topic of discussion in the Presidential campaign, but that’s largely because there’s not much left to talk about.

The new Red Dawn promises to be even sillier than the first.

Mitt Romney believes he could take America to war without Congressional involvement.

The United States may have slowed down Iran’s nuclear program without firing a shot–not counting the one at our own foot.

The first shots have been fired in cyberspace. How will it end?

Is there a Romney Doctrine?

Iran’s path to a nuclear bomb isn’t as easy as most think, Jacques Hymans argues in the current Foreign Policy.

Lt Gen Benny Gantz says Iran “is going step by step to the place where it will be able to decide whether to manufacture a nuclear bomb. It hasn’t yet decided to go the extra mile.”

Despite their rhetoric, there would be few differences between a Romney Administration and an Obama Administration when it comes to foreign policy.

There’s a big hole in the latest sanctions against Iran.