Outside the Beltway

A horrible terror attack in Egypt.

ISIS apparently now has a foothold in Libya, and is making inroads in Yemen.

Wherein I engage in a little intra-blog debate.

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

The factors influencing Russian policy in Syria are many, and some of them are quite ancient.

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?”