Outside the Beltway

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

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

President Obama is still insisting that his war against ISIS will not require American ground troops. He’s not being honest with the American people.

After keeping his distance from them for three years, President Obama is placing much misplaced hope in the “moderate” Syrian rebels,

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

The plan won’t achieve achieve its stated goals.

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

If the President is going to increase American involvement in the Middle East, he needs to address some fundamental questions first.

Congress seems ready to avoid having to vote on expanded attacks against the Islamic State

Dan Froomkin says Obama is as bad as Bush, if not worse.

As talk begins of expanding the war against ISIS into Syria, it is becoming long past time for Congress to exercise its Constitutional function.

The General Accounting Office confirmed what seems clear to anyone who can read a statute.

Dispelling a rising myth,

Viet Xuan Luong pins on a brigadier general’s star today, becoming the first Vietnamese-American officer to achieve that rank.

Some words from the past, apparently uttered mere hours before the world changed forever.

The C.I.A. has admitted spying on Senate investigators.

The U.S. and Europe have announced a new round of sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine crisis, but it’s not clear that the Russians will be motivated to change course.

Crisis seems to be brewing all over the world, but the American people aren’t persuaded that it’s necessary for the United States to act.

Basically, the answer is that nobody really thought there was much of a risk that a plane could be shot down.

Rick Perry and Rand Paul are highlighting what looks to be a coming battle inside the GOP over foreign policy.

The various factions in Afghanistan have agreed, at least in principle, to alter the nation’s government as part of a deal to resolve election disputes.

There’s a declared winner in Afghanistan’s Presidential Election, but a cloud hangs over the results.

For some reason, President Obama wants to arm so-called “moderate” Syrian rebels.

The Kentucky Senator and former Vice-President are at the front of a battle that will unfold inside the GOP as we head toward 2016.

My latest for The Hill, “Why all VA executives are above average,” has posted.

More bad poll numbers for the President.

If President Obama does decide to use military force in Iraq, he should be required to seek Congressional approval beforehand.

Thanks largely to Administration mistakes, the Bergdahl deal is not going over well.

For the fourth time in 30 years, an American President spoke at Normandy to honor a day of sacrifice and triumph.

If someone had seen the signals, perhaps Bowe Bergdahl never would’ve wandered off base and gotten captured.

Barring shocking developments, General Joe Dunford will be the 36th Commandant of the Marine Corps.

Contrary to the oft-repeated slogan, the United States has negotiated with terrorists before. And we will do it again.

Not every soldier is a hero. Not even every POW.