Outside the Beltway

The Romney campaign infighting is becoming public.

The White House’s theory of what happened in Benghazi is become less and less credible.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

CFR’s Laurie Garrett has a piece in The Atlantic headlined “Good Job, CIA: Your Pakistan Vaccine Plot Helped Bring Polio Back From the Brink of Eradication.”

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

Following yesterday’s shoot-down of a Turkish F-5 by Syria has once again raised the specter of NATO action under Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty. It’s not going to happen.

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

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

Cave quid dicis, quando, et cui.

The GOP’s response to the Obama campaign’s Osama bin Laden ad has not been helpful.

My first piece for The New Republic, “Why the Obama Administration’s Drone War May Soon Reach a Tipping Point,” is up.

Osama bin Laden’s death provides Barack Obama with an important political shield during the upcoming campaign.

The Obama campaign’s cheap politicizing of the SEAL raid that took out bin Laden is unseemly. And unnecessary.

The Atlantic’s Max Fisher reflects on “What America Can Learn From Norway’s Anders Breivik Trial.”

A profile of the chief of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center.

Joe Biden got a little braggadocious last night.

Attorney General Eric Holder offered a somewhat alarming defense of the Administration’s policy on targeted killings.

The latest round of protests in Afghanistan prove yet again that it’s time for us to leave.

The GOP Balloon Release Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Last night’s State Of The Union Address contained another unfortunate example of the prevalence of militaristic rhetoric in domestic politics.

The truth about a Second Obama Term is that it likely wouldn’t be all that remarkable.

To Republicans, even thinking about engaging in diplomacy is enough to accuse the President of appeasement.

For years, analysts have worried that Iraq’s tenuous hold on stability would collapse upon the withdrawal of US forces. We’re now watching it happen.

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 authorizes the President the authority to indefinitely detain persons, even American citizens arrested on American soil, without trial because they allegedly support the enemy.

There’s a little historical revisionism going on on the right.

Herman Cain has either doubled down on his foreign policy ignorance or proven himself a man of great nuance.

Huntsman will gain little if any traction and none of the frontrunners really helped or hurt themselves.

The Republican candidates for President have been mostly silent about foreign policy issues. That changes starting tonight.