Outside the Beltway

Shutting down media that the government doesn’t like is unlikely to solve the sectarian problems in Iraq.

Emily DePrang looks back at “‘Baghdad Bob’ and His Ridiculous, True Predictions.”

The regime we fought for in Iraq is now aiding the regime we’re fighting against (at least by proxy) in Syria.

Arab news giant Al-Jazeera is buying Al Gore’s failing Current TV network, hoping to get a bigger presence in the US cable market.

General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander during Operation Desert Storm, has died at the age of 78.

The scandal now surrounding David Petraeus should lead people to reassess his past record.

Within minutes after today’s Jobs Report was released, the conspiracy theorists began to come forward.

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

The Trucks Are For Kids Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Two centuries ago, a war that makes less and less sense with the passage of time began.

Sometimes there was no sugar or Splenda for coffee. On chicken wing night, wings were rationed at six per person.

Once again, Ron Paul showed last night why he could never win the Republican nomination.

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.

82nd Airborne solider David Hickman was the 4474th American serviceman killed in Iraq. He should be the last.

After 3,193 days and more than 4,000 lives, the American war in Iraq is officially at an end.

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

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta gave the strongest signal ever that there will be some U.S. military presence in Iraq after December 31st.

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

It may be time to change rules keeping women out of combat roles. But “fairness” isn’t the right question.

Defense Secretary Gates hinted this week that the U.S. would stay in Iraq if the Iraqis wanted. It doesn’t seem like they do.

For the past day or so, America’s fighting men have been pawns in a cynical political game.

U.S. officials are making clear that the current mission in Libya may not lead to the end of Muammar Gaddafi’s rule. If that’s the case, then why are we there in the first place?

It’s not the size of your government that counts — it’s what you do with it that matters.

It turns out the Iraq War was indeed based, in part at least, on a lie.

While the violence is down in Iraq, it’s not gone.

Moqtada al-Sadr is back in Iraq, and it’s a good thing we’re on our way out.

Andrew Sullivan makes a rather bizarre charge offhandedly: “Who among the neocons would have thought that one of George W. Bush’s final legacies would be bringing pogroms, bombings and genocide to Christians in his new zone of freedom?”

Iraq’s PM re-affirms Iraq’s commitment to the U. S. withdrawal date in the Status of Forces Agreement.

In what is being described as the largest leak of secret documents in U.S. history, Wikileaks has made public more than 400,000 documents related to the seven year long Iraq War.