Outside the Beltway

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

Gaddafi is dead, but it was still wrong for the United States to get involved in Libya.

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

The BBC is reporting that rebels claim to have captured the ousted leader of Libya.

Where should we look to understand the failings of the government?

The cable networks and the political parties will tell you otherwise, but the 2012 isn’t quite as important as they’re saying.

NATO is still seen as essential by 62 percent of both EU and U.S. respondents, demonstrating that the transatlantic military bond is still, despite a rough decade, firmly entrenched in American and European views of the world.

Four American soldiers are now on the ground in Libya. Reports have them wearing boots.

For a peace envoy, Blair has some nonpeaceful ideas.

What does the apparent outcome of the war in Libya mean for the so-called “Responsibility To Protect” doctrine?

Reports are coming out of Libya that paint the Libyan rebels in a very unkind light.

Romney’s VFW speech was filled with tropes and bromides but nothing that should raise eyebrows.

Now that the storm has passed, the media is being accused of over-hyping Hurricane Irene.

My first piece for CNN has been posted at Fareed Zakaria’s Global Public Square.

That a popular two-term governor of Utah is being rejected by likely Republican primary voters as insufficiently conservative shows just how extreme American politics has gotten.

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

My latest for The National Interest is posted under the somewhat misleading headline “NATO Fails in Libya.”

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

There are 164 technically acceptable transliterations of the name of Libya’s soon-to-be-former dictator.

The Atlantic has published an essay I wrote yesterday morning titled “Libya After Qaddafi: Lessons from Iraq 2003.”

Steve Benen has coined the phrase “Thank America Last” to describe those avoiding praise of President Obama for success in Libya.

Well, let’s not start sucking each other’s dicks quite yet.

After months of fits and starts, it appears anti-Gaddafi forces are on the verge of victory.

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.

Political journalists are asking clumsy, ignorant, and intolerant questions. Film at 11.

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.”

International options with respect to Syria are limited and likely to have little impact on the governments treatment of civilians.

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

A take on the conflict that’s probably different from the one you’ve been reading.