Outside the Beltway

France’s President has spent the week trying to forge and agreement on an anti-ISIS policy, but the two nations that matter the most also disagree the most.

Happy Thanksgiving!

As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.

Tensions between Russia and Turkey remain high in the wake of yesterday’s incident, but there are some signs that things are starting to cool down.

Hillary Clinton’s recently announced policies toward the ISIS fight are as incoherent and misguided as President Obama’s and those of her Republican opponents.

A potentially big complication in an already complicated situation.

The United States and Europe are giving everything the perpetrators of the Paris attacks hoped for.

Even the people hired to advice Ben Carson on foreign policy seem to recognize that he is clueless on the subject, and has no apparent desire to educate himself.

The news that at least some of the men who were involved in the terrorist attacks in Paris were among the refugees who have arrived in Europe since the summer is likely to complicate an already complicated situation.

A Saturday night debate wasn’t likely to get much attention to begin with. A Saturday night debate in the wake of a major terrorist attack, and a major football game for Iowa’s premier college football team, likely got even less attention. That’s probably good news for Hillary Clinton, and bad news for her two remaining rivals.

In the wake of President Obama’s to send Special Forces to Syria, a new poll finds the public doesn’t like the idea very much.

America’s much touted international coalition against ISIS is, essentially a Coalition In Name Only.

President Obama came to office inheriting the legacy of one unnecessary war, and another that had faded from memory. He will leave office with Iraq and Syria in crisis, Europe uneasy, Yemen and Libya unstable breeding grounds for terrorism, and China doing whatever it is they’re doing.

Another day, another military escalation in the Middle East.

The U.S. and Russia have reached a much-needed deal to avoid inadvertent confrontations over the skies of Syria.

In the wake of failure that could have been easily foreseen, the Obama Administration is ending a program to train so-called “moderate” Syrian rebels.

The U.S. is set to ramp up its contribution to dealing with the Syrian refugee crisis, but there’s a lot more we can do.

Turkey has finally joined in the US-led coalition against ISIL. Unfortunately, it’s killing the main ground force fighting ISIL.

David Frum calls for several measures to reduce gun violence.

Turkey’s governing party suffered big setbacks at the ballot box yesterday.

The Holocaust was a very atypical case of genocide.

Unlike most world leaders, Pope Francis is wiling to call a genocide a genocide.

The gang calling itself the Islamic State has destroyed another historical site.

For a year that started out with regaining long-lost territory in Ukraine, 2014 is not ending so well for Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

As expected, the Senate passed the so-called “Cromnibus,” but not before a self-aggrandizing maneuver by Ted Cruz ended up being exploited by Democrats to pass outstanding nominations.

Public Relations 101: When you have a job in public relations, don’t say stupid things.

Black Friday chaos has crossed the pond.

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!

You thought the American combat role in Afghanistan would end on December 31st? Think again.

The latest ISIS video is horrible and barbaric but we should not take the bait they are offering before considering the consequences of our actions going forward.

Yesterday’s apparent terrorist shooting in Ottawa reveals again a phenomenon that seems difficult if not impossible to stop in advance.

Who should own antiquity?

The Turks have entered the conflict in Syria. Unfortunately for the United States, it’s not on the side we would prefer.

So far at least, the air strikes against Islamic State positions in Syria do not seem to be having much of an impact.

A massacre is about to unfold “a stone’s throw” from Turkey’s border.

The TSA is up to its usual shenanigans.

As we head into a new conflict, perhaps we ought to give more thought to fiscal issues than the President is to overall strategy.

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

Despite the President’s assurances of an international coalition, the rest of the world doesn’t seem all that interested in joining the fight.

Obama’s current policy—tactical level strikes with no obvious long-term strategic aim—may well be the best we can hope for.

American journalist James Foley has been beheaded by the terrorist network calling itself the Islamic State.

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

A glimmer of hope in Gaza is quickly snuffed out.

Iraq continues to fall apart.

The First World War played an intriguing role in the birth of the radical Islam we are dealing with today.