Outside the Beltway

Mitt Romney is criticizing the President over his Syria policy, but his alternative ideas aren’t very good.

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.”

Historian J. David Hacker argues that the death toll from the US Civil War is much higher than we think.

The very question is rather dubious.

A disastrous day for American troops in Afghanistan.

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.

A bomb blast in Oslo’s government center has killed at least two people and a presumably related shooting spree at a nearby children’s camp are being investigated as terrorist related.

A summary of the status of the “Arab Spring” uprisings with links to news coverage and commentary.

Comedian Gilbert Gottfried is the latest idiot celebrity to damage their career on Twitter.

Status report on the damage in Japan.

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

The situation in Libya continues to be grim as Gaddafi lashes out while power slips through his fingers.

The crackdown in Libya is turning into a massacre.

The Gaddafi regime is facing its most serious challenge in its 41 year history.

More on the attack at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport.

Today’s Foreign Desk includes comments on Brazil’s floods, developments in Ivory Coast, and Silvio Berlusconi’s sex scandal.

The cholera outbreak in Haiti continues unabated; riots against UN peacekeepers have broken out.

The American military is on a mission in Afghanistan that the public is increasingly starting to question.