Outside the Beltway

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

Conservative groups are upset because a new reality show depicts Muslim-Americans as, well, normal Americans.

Once again, Newt Gingrich speaks without thinking.

There aren’t many glad tidings at the White House these days.

Newt Gingrich’s foreign policy vision leaves much to be desired.

With the Super Committee dead, 2012 is likely to see a fight over the defense cuts set to take place starting in 2013.

How did Republicans get in this mess?

“Democratic” pollsters Pat Caddell and Doug Schoen argue that President Obama should decline to run for re-election.

Thomas Ricks posts several recommendations for fixing the Army. Most of them are really, really stupid.

We’re running out of excuses.

Doug Feith’s replacement is prettier and softer spoken.

Huntsman will gain little if any traction and none of the frontrunners really helped or hurt themselves.

The Republican candidates for President have been mostly silent about foreign policy issues. That changes starting tonight.

The remains of US servicemen killed in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were thrown out with the trash.

Let’s compare Iraq and Iran.

If Occupy protestors getting hit by cars in two cities is the beginning of a trend, so is a second Iraq War veteran being seriously injured by police during the Occupy Oakland protestors.

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.

It’s the 5% versus the 1% moreso than the 99% against the 1%.

What do this people want? Can’t you read the signs?

Don’t confuse modest bumps in a polling trend with actual changes in the thing being polled.

SFC Kristoffer Bryan Domeij was killed in action in Afghanistan Saturday, on his fourteenth combat tour.

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.

Should we be outraged over the manner in which Muammar Gaddafi died? I’m not losing any sleep over it.

President Obama is set to announce that all American troops will be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of the year.

The post-Gaddafi era has been made permanent. What comes next?

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?

Ahead of his big foreign policy speech, Mitt Romney has unveiled his “Foreign Policy and National Security Advisory Team” which “will assist Governor Romney as he presents his vision for restoring American leadership in the world and securing our enduring interests and ideals abroad.”

Protestors have converged on DC, rallying against Afghanistan, Wall Street, and stuff.

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.”

One in three U.S. veterans of the post-9/11 military believes the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were not worth fighting.

Giving the President the unchecked power to kill American citizens raises some serious red flags.

Much of politics is visceral rather than intellectual.

Stephen Hill, a US soldier serving in Iraq, was booed by some members of the audience at last night’s Republican debate.