Outside the Beltway

A third major terrorist attack inside of a week.

Stopping the next Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Syed Farook, or Omar Mateen is likely to be a lot more difficult than the politicians on either side of the aisle are leading us to believe.

A respected scholar has an interesting suggestion for fighting the Forever War.

The godfather of the Responsibility to Protect doctrine has passed.

Get ready for an expansion of the war against ISIS into Libya, because it’s probably not far away.

Another hopeful step forward, thanks to diplomacy.

The execution of a prominent Shi’ite cleric has led to a rapid deterioration of the relationship between Saudi Arabia and Iran.

The anti-Muslim rhetoric Donald Trump has been using on the campaign trail has shown up in a recruitment video for an al Qaeda off-shoot group.

If you were looking for evidence that the race for the Democratic nomination is basically over, you need look no further than last night’s Democratic Debate.

The attack in San Bernardino has seemingly left the Administration’s anti-terror strategy in disarray, so the President is addressing the nation tonight to say, well, something I guess.

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.

Donald Trump’s demagoguery and disdain for individual liberty enters a new phase.

Much more so than in the past, the race for the Republican Presidential race has become a battle to define what it means to be a ‘conservative.’ Especially on issues like immigration and national security, one side seems to be winning the battle.

France launched its first attacks against ISIS even as the investigation into Friday’s attacks continues, but it’s not clear that the retaliation really accomplished anything.

The investigation continues, but the consensus seems to be growing that Metrojet 9268 was taken out by a bomb.

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

American intelligence officials are saying that a Russian passenger jet that went down over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula was most likely brought down by a bomb.

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.

Your tax dollars at work.

Tragedy in Tennessee.

A well-founded fear of ISIS seems to be drawing many of the former Soviet Republics in Central Asia closer to Moscow.

Some unusually blunt, but true, language from the U.S. Secretary Of Defense.

The relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia has seen better days.

Rand Paul bucks Republican orthodoxy on Iraq, Libya, and negotiations with Iran.

Saudi Arabia’s new King has shaken up the Royal Family, and that could have interesting results.

Pot, meet kettle.

Marco Rubio is often described as one of the GOP’s leaders on foreign policy, but a close look reveals a decided lack of substance.

Chinese analysts are telling their American counterparts that North Korea’s nuclear arsenal is far more sophisticated than previously believed.

And the fun part is that his main motive for running appears to be the opportunity to troll Rand Paul.

One freshman Senator seems to think that war with Iran would be easy, just like Republicans used to think that war against Iraq would be easy.

America’s longest war continues.

ISIS apparently now has a foothold in Libya, and is making inroads in Yemen.

Daniel Larison is far less ambivalent about our war on ISIL than me.

A big change in an important nation in the most volatile part of the world.

The men responsible for the Charlie Hebdo massacre are dead, but the problems for France, and the rest of Europe, may just be at the beginning.

The shocking has become routine. We’re no safer because of it.

Mission creep.

Quietly, oil prices have been falling for months now. That’s potentially a very big deal.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul continues to challenge Republican orthodoxy on foreign policy, and that’s a good thing.

While the world pays attention to Syria and Iraq, Yemen is once against lurching into chaos.

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

The Obama Administration’s legal justification for war against ISIS is laughably flimsy.

The Global War on Terror isn’t over after all.

Political irony, perhaps, but probably less than meets the eye.

And odd report from Washington Post and Stars and Stripes.

Once again, President Obama’s attempt to communicate a foreign policy vision falls short.

Hubris.

President Obama’s new rules for killing Americans with drones are proving inconvenient.

The New York Times Benghazi report raises as many questions as it purports to answer.