Outside the Beltway

A preemptive attack on North Korea would be illegal, immoral and, most importantly, insane.

Tensions continue to rise between the White House and Foggy Bottom.

Donald Trump’s increasingly confrontational rhetoric regarding North Korea is leading to similar rhetoric from the DPRK, and concern among top diplomats.

Notwithstanding his promises during the campaign, President Trump seems likely to go forward with sanctions reductions required under the nuclear deal with Iran.

More foreign policy amateurism.

More provocative action from North Korea, and another reminder that there are no easy answers to the problems represented by the Kim regime.

President Trump’s reaction to the terror attack in Spain included an easily debunked lie about one of America’s most decorated Generals.

More stupid, irresponsible rhetoric from the President of the United States.

Things are getting far more complicated on the Korean Peninsula. Diplomacy isn’t working, and a military option would most likely lead to disaster.

The evidence that President Trump fired James Comey in an effort to quash the Russia investigation continues to mount.

Another provocative move by North Korea.

South Korea has elected a new President who breaks with his impeached predecessor in favoring dialogue with the North.

The North Koreans failed to successfully test a longer-range missile again yesterday, but tensions on the Korean Peninsula seem destined to increase in any case.

North Korea is threatening another nuclear test, the United States is threatening retaliation, and China is warning of a ‘gathering storm’ on the Korean Peninsula.

A majority of Americans support last week’s airstrikes in Syria but are skeptical of any expansion beyond that.

More stepping back from free trade and the established global economic order.

Rex Tillerson, “the phantom of Foggy Bottom.”

Another day, another round of reports about contacts with Russian officials and people close to President Trump.

Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech on Middle East peace was largely correct, but his words are pointless given the fact that neither Israel nor the Palestinians seem serious about peacefully resolving their differences.

While you were celebrating Christmas, Israel was blasting the Obama Administration and cozying up to the incoming Trump Administration.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is speaking out against several of President-Elect Trump’s proposed Cabinet nominees.

The incoming president’s business interests are a yuuuge problem.

A surprising name is emerging as the likely pick for the nation’s top diplomatic position.

A true, albeit largely anonymous, hero of humanity has passed away.

With President Obama becoming the first American President to visit Cuba in 88 years, a new poll finds majority support for his changes in Cuba policy.

Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions became the latest prominent Republican to endorse Donald Trump, but there are a lot more Republicans who are starting to panic over what Trump could do to their party.

For now at least, the Bush Dynasty has seen the end of its involvement in national politics.

The godfather of the Responsibility to Protect doctrine has passed.

Another hopeful step forward, thanks to diplomacy.

Good news for Jason Rezaian and four other Americans, and another example of how diplomacy can help resolve disputes that seemed irresolvable.

Ten American sailors detained by Iranian forces late Tuesday were released early today, something that seems to clearly demonstrate the value of diplomacy.

France’s President has spent the week trying to forge and agreement on an anti-ISIS policy, but the two nations that matter the most also disagree the most.

John Kasich wants the United States Government to create an agency to spread ‘so-called ‘Judeo-Christian values.’

Republicans haven’t really moved beyond the legacy of George W. Bush’s failed Administration as much as they’d like to think, but it doesn’t seem to be hurting them very much.

After an eleven hour day on Capitol Hill, it was Hillary Clinton 1 House Benghazi Committee 0.

What was promoted as major foreign policy speech by Donald Trump turned out to be more substance-free stream-of-consciousness rambling from an egomaniac.

President Obama’s confrontational approach to opponents of the Iran Nuclear Deal ignores legitimate questions.

In bringing Holocaust imagery into the debate over the Iran nuclear deal, Mike Huckabee has displayed the intellectual bankruptcy of his position.

Good news for the President.

The U.N. Security Council has approved the Iranian nuclear deal, and now the ball is in Congress’s court.

There are mutual embassies in Havana and Washington for the first time in 54 years. It certainly took long enough.

Trips to the airport will now be even more fun.

In what seems to be a clear signal to Russia, the U.S. is considering pre-positioning military equipment in nation’s very close to Russian borders.

Conditioning an Iranian nuclear deal on recognition of Israel is foolish, unrealistic, and very bad diplomacy.