Outside the Beltway

Another platform controversy?

General Martin Dempsey, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, sent a message to Israel last week.

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

Condoleeza Rice’s first trip onto the political stage was very successful last night. Where will she go from here?

President Obama issued a warning to Syria today over its chemical weapons stockpiles.

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.

Since Israel’s system is far more “socialist” by American rhetorical standards, I am not sure what his point was.

According to a new report, the CIA considers Israel to be an espionage threat.

Several key members of the Syrian government were killed in a suicide bomb attack today in Damascus.

Would faith survive the discovery that the central premise of the Bible is a lie?

A nine month Al Jazeera investigations indicates that poison may have played a role in Yasser Arafat’s 2004 death.

The candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood is the next President of Egypt, but the political future of Egypt itself remains quite murky.

Gas prices are falling nationwide but that’s mostly because the economy kind of stinks.

Mitt Romney’s confrontational approach to Russia makes no sense.

Jeffrey Goldberg asks, “What if Mitt Romney were Jewish?”

Let’s leave Egypt to the Egyptians.

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

Saudi Arabia’s monarchy has suffered the loss of Crown Prince Nayef, the successor 88-year-old King Abdullah.

The heady days of revolution in Egypt have been replaced with the cold light of political reality.

A new ruling from Egypt’s highest court has set in motion a chain of events that could end very badly.

US Army Special Forces are the best we have at working with far-flung villagers. Are they good enough?

The factors influencing Russian policy in Syria are many, and some of them are quite ancient.

The president has come a long way from his days as a “liberal law professor who campaigned against the Iraq war.”

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