Outside the Beltway

Former President Bill Clinton says President Obama should ignore the polls and intervene in Syria.

A George W. Bush renaissance? Not exactly.

Meet Edward Snowden, the 29 year old CIA/NSA contractor who has confessed to leaking the details of the NSA’s data mining projects.

Has the West inadvertently handed Iran a victory in Syria?

How would the addition of Susan Rice and Samantha Power to the President’s foreign policy team affect policy toward Syria’s civil war?

Syria isn’t Libya.

Denied her chance at being Secretary of State, Susan Rice will be moving to a position that is arguably just as important in shaping American foreign policy.

Starting today, the fate of Pfc. Bradley Manning is on trial in a courtroom at Fort Meade, Maryland.

Republicans have problems with the younger generation that they will need to fix if they’re going to succeed in the future.

Syria’s violence is slipping across it’s borders.That’s not good news at all.

The sequestration cuts are two months old, and it seems pretty clear that the claims of doom we heard before they went into effect were heavily exaggerated.

We’re actually not speculating about who might be running any more than we used to.

The United States is currently negotiating for a U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan after 2014, but they’re not sharing their plans with the American people.

Yesterday’s hearings shed more light while also raising yet more questions to which we’ll likely never get a satisfactory answer.

Apparently, Benghazi has not faded (at least not for some).

The world oil markets aren’t too far away from being hit by the shock of massively increased demand from China. Somehow, we’ll have to adapt.

A new poll shows that 62% of Americans oppose American military intervention in Syria’s civil war.

John McCain is right that we shouldn’t send ground troops to Syria, but his idea for increased U.S. intervention in the country’s civil war is still too risky.

Once again, politics is dictating military policy.

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

President Obama may regret drawing a line in the sand over Syrian chemical weapons.

General Petreaus is now Dr. Petraeus and will be teaching a 1-1 load a the City University of New York.

There seems to be an effort underway to reassess the legacy of our 43rd President.

The events in Boston on Monday were tragic, but there was one shining success.

A bipartisan commission of elder statesmen confirms what we’ve known for years.

A new report confirms that the United States did engage in torture in the wake of the September 11th attacks.

We treat violence by lone individuals differently than organized violence. Race, religion, and national origin have nothing to do with that.

A preventative strike against North Korea is a bad idea.

Revisiting an old posting of mine on the subject.

My latest for The National Interest, “It’s Not Too Soon to Tell,” has posted.

The Dakota Tribal Wisdom Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Because sometimes poorly contructed observations can set a fellow to writing.

The odds for a party switch in the House of Representatives remain quite low.

My latest for The National Interest, “Hagel’s Three Questions,” ponders our national security decisionmaking.

Will the prohibitive favorite for the 2016 Democratic nomination do it differently this time around?