Outside the Beltway

Well. medium length anyway.

While no official announcements have been made, President Obama’s second term national security team appears to be taking shape.

What’s the truth about last night’s debate exchange about Libya?

A round of finger pointing in the aftermath of the Benghazi attack.

The official narrative on the Benghazi consulate attack has changed again.

The Administration’s decision to stick with the meme that the Benghazi attack was about a movie becomes more puzzling.

The Administration’s narrative regarding the attack that resulted in the death of Ambassador Christopher Stevens no longer holds water.

The White House’s theory of what happened in Benghazi is become less and less credible.

What hath a fury greater than a woman scorned? Hundreds of scorned women with Twitter accounts.

Events in Syria, and the world’s response to them, are revealing the moral bankruptcy of the justification for the war in Libya.

Andrew Bacevich refers to Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice, and Samantha Power as “the Three Harpies.”

The “Obama Doctrine,” such as it is, seems to boil down to moral self-certainty combined with a glaring ignorance of reality. That’s a dangerous combination.

The public, and Congress, are skeptical of the mission in Libya, and the reason for that is because the President has failed to tell us exactly why we’re there and what we’ll be doing.

Did President Obama pull off a diplomatic masterstroke? Or is he muddling through?

America is about to enter a third war in the Muslim world with no clear idea of the end game.