Outside the Beltway

An attack against Iran’s nuclear weapons research facility won’t be an easy thing.

It’s time for another round of speculation about Iran and its nuclear program.

Do we place too much importance on performance in presidential debates?

President Obama’s surprise announcement Friday that all U.S. forces would leave Iraq in time to be home for the holidays has been roundly condemned. While there are real concerns about what happens next, there was no better alternative.

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

Herman Cain’s foreign policy consists of little more than deliberate ignorance.

What’s the logic behind Iran’s alleged plot to commit terrorist attacks inside the United States?

The Justice Department claims to have disrupted a major Iranian-backed terrorist attack in the United States.

The key to my understanding of Mitt Romney’s foreign policy rollout is the assumption “this is fundamentally a campaign document rather than a governing platform.”

We’re learning more about the Obama Administration’s decision to kill Anwar al-Awlaki

Is Herman Cain for real, or is this rise int he polls just another boomlet destined to fade away?

In an interview, President Obama says that Americans are worse off than they were four years ago.

A major backer of Republican and Libertarian causes is under fire.

When the old rules don’t apply anymore, the system breaks down.

We may have entered a new and dangerous phase of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

During last night’s debate, Mitt Romney repeated a charge that has become part of the conservative zeitgeist. But is it true?

Yes, Barack Obama is running for a second term.

For a peace envoy, Blair has some nonpeaceful ideas.

It never ceases to amaze me how many smart people manage to believe, against all evidence to the contrary, that their political philosophy has massive support.

Ron Paul is again making the argument that American foreign policy has contributed to terrorism. He’s more right than wrong.

The U.S may be on the verge of committing the next decade to the future of Afghanistan.

Success in Libya does not make the American mission any less unjustified than it was on the day President Obama announced it.

The U.S. and its allies are calling on Bashar Assad to step down, but there’s little we can do when he says no.

Rick Perry declared, “One of the reasons that I’m running for president is I want to make sure that every young man and woman who puts on the uniform of the United States respects highly the president of the United States.”

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

Last night’s debate was definitely more combative than previous renditions.

Examining the impact of current events requires stepping back from them just a little bit.

The defense spending lobby is already engaging in fear-mongering over very modest defense cuts.

The world is starting to denounce the crackdown in Syria, but the reaction seems unlikely to go much beyond strongly worded statements.

The cuts to Pentagon spending in the new debt deal are further revealing a split in the GOP over foreign policy and military spending.

It is always useful to go inside the numbers.

President Obama is polling at 46.8 percent, below the level needed to win re-election.

Tim Pawlenty’s foreign policy speech shows him siding with the hawks, and joining in the neocon distortion of Reagan’s legacy.

Last night, the President basically announced that America’s longest war had entered it’s end game.

Are you better off than you were three years ago? 44% of Americans say no.

Are you better off than you were four years ago?

The Anthony Weiner reveals once again the odd American obsession with the intersection of sex and politics.