Outside the Beltway

Has the West inadvertently handed Iran a victory in Syria?

Syria’s violence is slipping across it’s borders.That’s not good news at all.

Signs and portents in the Middle East.

John McCain is right that we shouldn’t send ground troops to Syria, but his idea for increased U.S. intervention in the country’s civil war is still too risky.

President Obama may regret drawing a line in the sand over Syrian chemical weapons.

The regime we fought for in Iraq is now aiding the regime we’re fighting against (at least by proxy) in Syria.

The notion that guns prevent tyranny is based on fantasy and movies, not reality.

Recent comments from Russian officials suggest that the nation may be preparing to cut its longtime ally loose.

The conflict between Israel and Hamas appears to be heading in one unfortunate direction.

The candidate’s meet for one last time tonight to talk about some of the most important issues in the world.

President Obama is keeping the conflict in Syria at arms length. That’s a good idea.

The argument that the United States should start assisting the rebellion in Syria has many flaws.

One of Mitt Romney’s own supporters didn’t like his foreign policy speech very much.

Mitt Romney is once again making completely false claims about the status of the United States Navy.

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

Several key members of the Syrian government were killed in a suicide bomb attack today in Damascus.

US Army Special Forces are the best we have at working with far-flung villagers. Are they good enough?

Meet Flame. A cyber threat that makes Stuxnet seem like child’s play.

Arizona’s senior Senator want’s to bomb Syria.

Yet another sign that international intervention in Syria is most likely never going to happen.

For years, analysts have worried that Iraq’s tenuous hold on stability would collapse upon the withdrawal of US forces. We’re now watching it happen.

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

We’re running out of excuses.

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

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

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.

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

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

Events in Syria, and the world’s response to them, are revealing the moral bankruptcy of the justification for the war in Libya.

Senator Joe Lieberman said today that we should intervene in Syria using the same rationale we did for Libya. Because, you know, what’s the big deal about a fourth war?