Outside the Beltway

The CIA’s drone war in Pakistan has gotten so out of hand that the Pentagon and State Department are reigning it in.

President Obama is being attacking from the right for following through on a policy decision made by his Republican predecessor.

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

By looking only in one direction, Occupy Wall Street is missing the big picture.

Ten years ago tomorrow, President Bush announced that “the United States military has begun strikes against al Qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.”

We’re learning more about the Obama Administration’s decision to kill Anwar al-Awlaki

The Custard’s Last Stand Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Giving the President the unchecked power to kill American citizens raises some serious red flags.

When the FBI essentially creates a terrorist in order to arrest him, have we really accomplished anything?

Rezwan Ferdaus, an American Muslim, has been charged with a major terrorist plot against his country.

During last night’s debate, Mitt Romney repeated a charge that has become part of the conservative zeitgeist. But is it true?

The U.S. War in Afghanistan sounds disturbingly similar to the Soviet one.

The FBI has been using some odd materials to train its counterterrorism agents.

The Swamp People Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Killing’s our business and business is good.

What does the apparent outcome of the war in Libya mean for the so-called “Responsibility To Protect” doctrine?

Understanding why your enemy hates you seems to be an important thing, but some people would rather believe in caricatures.

Ron Paul is again making the argument that American foreign policy has contributed to terrorism. He’s more right than wrong.

Iraq has become so dependent on Iran for its survival that it is endorsing the brutal tactics of Bashar Assad.

Honoring the fallen by ensuring that the didn’t die in vain is a recipe for getting more good men killed.

News that Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik was a fan of anti-Islamist sites, including Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch and Pamela Geller’s Atlas Shrugs has opened a big can of schadenfreude.

The death toll in Norway’s deadliest day of terrorism is up to 91. The man behind it, 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik, is a frequent poster of anti-Muslim screeds on Christian fundamentalist websites.

So the CIA organized a fake vaccination drive in Pakistan in an attempt to get bin Laden family DNA. What could possibly go wrong?

Danger Room’s Spencer Ackerman reports on an alleged secret CIA interrogation facility somewhere in the former Soviet Union.

Our good ally Pakistan has publicly ordered us to leave a base used for “covert” CIA drone attacks.

Last night, the President basically announced that America’s longest war had entered it’s end game.

As the President prepares to announce his plans for the future in Afghanistan, a majority of Americans want the troops home now.

President Obama is expected to announce the withdrawal of the 30,000 Surge troops.

The ISI appears to have shown a special interest in informants that helped the CIA find bin Laden.

WaPo’s Jackson Diehl asks, “Will the GOP nominate a dove?”

American drone strikes in Yemen are intensifying. Is this a new war. or just the same one we’ve been fighting since October 2001?

Glenn Greenwald asks two questions about the cases of Osama bin Laden and Ratko Mladic. Helpfully, the second answers the first.