Outside the Beltway

My latest for The New Republic, “America’s Scandalous Drone War Goes Unmentioned in the Campaign,” is out.

Mitt Romney is a deeply flawed candidate, but that doesn’t mean the President is any better.

The Administration’s decision to stick with the meme that the Benghazi attack was about a movie becomes more puzzling.

The Obama Administration’s response to the protests in the Muslim world has been entirely wrongheaded.

With Mitt Romney and Barack Obama basically saying the same things about foreign policy, it’s time to take a look at an alternative.

It’s still possible for Mitt Romney to win this election, but is it probable?

It may not be the one thing that costs him election, but Mitt Romney’s remarks about the “47 percent” are still a problem for his campaign.

The Romney campaign infighting is becoming public.

The Romney campaign’s critique of the President’s foreign policy record is weak, and based on bad history.

Capitulating to a mob is never a good idea.

For the fourth day, American and other embassies became the focus of mass protests in many Muslim nations.

The Romney campaign is doubling down on bizarre foreign policy pronouncements.

One Professor suggests we sacrifice yet more of our freedom in the wake of the embassy protests in the Middle East.

Senator Rand Paul suggests the GOP may want to reconsider its foreign policy aggressiveness.

Mitt Romney’s foreign policy weaknesses are starting to become apparent.

My latest for The National Interest, “Freedom of Speech and Religion in Egypt and Libya,” has posted.

The 9/11 attacks and our response to them changed America, and not for the better.

Based on its recently passed platform, the Democratic Party has given up any pretense of putting civil liberties ahead of “national security.”

President Obama didn’t blow the doors off the Time Warner Cable Arena last night, but he didn’t need to.

The Obama campaign clearly does not want Americans to consider whether they are better off now than they were four years ago.

My latest for The Atlantic, “Stop Feeling Sorry for American Veterans, has posted.

After three days of buildup to a “mystery speaker,” the closing night of the Republican convention featured a rambling performance by Clint Eastwood and an empty chair.

Chamake Mauriene reveals America’s secret to world domination in Pravda.

Today’s convention activities will include the opening salvos of an attack on the President’s foreign policy. This strikes me as a mistake.

A graph on public debt making the rounds is being used to misdirect rather than clarify.

A new book by one of the Navy SEALs involved in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden differs significantly from the official version put forward by the government.

To much fanfare, President Obama announced a shift in Afghan War policy in December 2009. There’s little evidence it’s worked.

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs has a message for those who wear and have worn our country’s uniform: “We are not elected to serve; rather, we elect to serve.”

The candidates aren’t talking about the war in Afghanistan very much, but that’s mostly because the American people don’t want them to.

Charges that the Obama administration leaked classified information about the Osama bin Laden raid for political gain are bunk.

For the first time in 80 years, there are no veterans on the major party Presidential tickets.

Tammy Smith has been promoted to brigadier general, thus becoming the first American general officer who also happens to be openly gay.

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.

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

The people trying to undo the Defense Budget sequestration cuts are making some pretty weak arguments.