Outside the Beltway

Obama to Sarkozy on Netanyahu: “You’re sick of him — but I have to deal with him every day!”

Let’s compare Iraq and Iran.

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou will resign after the makeup of the nation’s new coalition government is decided

The FARC now has an opening for supreme commander.

An attack against Iran’s nuclear weapons research facility won’t be an easy thing.

My latest for The Atlantic: “For Europe, Some Fear a Conflict Between Union and Democracy”

It’s time for another round of speculation about Iran and its nuclear program.

The Greek referendum could be a disaster for the global economy. And might be the right thing to do.

European leaders continue to kick the can down the road on a crisis that could bring down the global economy.

Commonwealth leaders agreed to drop rules that give sons precedence as heir to the throne and bar anyone in line for the crown from marrying a Roman Catholic.

Barack Obama wrote two bestselling memoirs before becoming president. Both of them are hot items at Foggy Bottom.

President Obama’s surprise announcement Friday that all U.S. forces would leave Iraq in time to be home for the holidays has been roundly condemned. While there are real concerns about what happens next, there was no better alternative.

Our good friend Hamid Karzai, contemplating a war between the United States and our good allies Pakistan, says that he would of course fight with Pakistan.

Should we be outraged over the manner in which Muammar Gaddafi died? I’m not losing any sleep over it.

President Obama is set to announce that all American troops will be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of the year.

Gaddafi is dead, but it was still wrong for the United States to get involved in Libya.

The post-Gaddafi era has been made permanent. What comes next?

The BBC is reporting that rebels claim to have captured the ousted leader of Libya.

In Scotland, posting stupid things on Facebook is a “hate crime” punishable by serious jail time.

Herman Cain’s foreign policy consists of little more than deliberate ignorance.

This is looking less crazy, less sudden, and less an exercise in presidential whimsy than it seemed.

Protests at least loosely affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement were conducted around the globe yesterday.

One thing is clear: anyone who tries to make cheap political hay over the LRA is a fool.

Some information on Joseph Kony and the LRA.

Obama is trying to get into Guinness under “US President with Most Simultaneous Wars”