Outside the Beltway

The ayatollahs face the biggest challenge to their authority in the history of the regime.

CNN’s original anchorman is gone at 82.

A man made famous for discovering Iraq’s WMD program was virtually nonexistent is gone at 82.

No casualties, American or otherwise, have been reported.

The American way of war kills a lot of noncombatants.

He was both the youngest and oldest man to run the Pentagon.

If a global pandemic and economic crisis weren’t enough excitement . . . .

President Trump is making ridiculous threats against the regime in Iraq that are likely to draw it closer to Iran.

President Trump’s threat to attack Iranian cultural sites would most likely constitute a war crime if he actually carried it out.

The assassination of a top Iranian official on a visit to Baghdad is having the expected negative impact on our relationship with Iraq and the fight against ISIS.

Despite Pompeo’s assurances, we are already seeing consequences for the Suleimani killing.

An American drone strike has taken out the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, a move likely to significantly increase tensions across the Middle East.

Amid protests over American airstrikes, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad has become a target.

ISIS is quickly taking advantage of the abrupt American withdrawal from northern Syria.

Amusing results, and a history lesson, in a new poll

Congressman Seth Moulton of Massachusetts is the latest Democrat to enter an already crowded field.

George H.W. Bush,, who served his nation as a warrior, Congressman, Ambassador, Vice-President, and President, has died at the age of 94.

Kofi Annan, who served as Secretary-General of the United Nations at the dawn of the “War On Terror,” has died at the age of 80.

Republicans are claiming that Conor Lamb won Tuesday’s Special Election in Pennsylvania because he campaigned as a conservative. These people are either deluded or lying.

John Bolton is leading a cry for preemptive war against North Korea.

The capital of the purported caliphate declared by ISIS has apparently fallen, but that doesn’t mean the end of ISIS. In fact, it may make the group more dangerous.

Iraqi military forces begin to crack down against Iraqi Kurds after last month’s independence referendum.

The U.S is joining the rest of the world in refusing to recognize the independence referendum conducted by Iraqi Kurds.

Kurds in Iraq voted overwhelmingly for independence in a non-binding referendum, and the result is threatening to create a new conflict in the Middle East.

America’s longest war seems likely to soon turn into America’s never-ending war.

President Trump has issued a revised ban on travel from six predominantly Muslim nations.

An initial setback for the Federal Government in its appeal of the ruling putting President Trump’s Muslim travel ban on hold.

A potentially controversial commutation from President Obama today.

The wave of Ramadan attacks continues, including a strike near the second holiest site in Islam.

A third major terrorist attack inside of a week.

In a new book, former President George H.W. Bush is highly critical of two of his son’s closest advisers in the White House.

With Russia now launching its own airstrikes in Syria, it’s become obvious that U.S. policy in the Syrian Civil War is irrational and contradictory. And Russia’s policy isn’t any better.

To lose something one has to have it in the first place. (It is pretty basic logic).

Lindsey Graham recently retired as a colonel in the Air Force Reserves after 33 years of service. His missed most of the last twenty.

Some unusually blunt, but true, language from the U.S. Secretary Of Defense.

ISIS has captured Ramadi, and revealed yet again how fractured Iraq actually is. Fixing that isn’t something that American aid or arms can accomplish.

Marco Rubio is often described as one of the GOP’s leaders on foreign policy, but a close look reveals a decided lack of substance.

America’s longest war continues.

ISIS owns more territory than it did when the US bombing campaign began.

As things stand right now, there is no legitimate legal authorization for the President’s war against ISIS, and that’s largely because Congress has failed to act.

Mission creep.

Quietly, oil prices have been falling for months now. That’s potentially a very big deal.