Outside the Beltway

Following yesterday’s shoot-down of a Turkish F-5 by Syria has once again raised the specter of NATO action under Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty. It’s not going to happen.

Rand Paul calls Mitt Romney out over his comments about Presidential War Powers.

Mitt Romney believes he could take America to war without Congressional involvement.

The factors influencing Russian policy in Syria are many, and some of them are quite ancient.

Mitt Romney is criticizing the President over his Syria policy, but his alternative ideas aren’t very good.

Yes, it is too hard to amend. A few quick thoughts on the subject.

My first piece for the Christian Science Monitor, co-authored with my Atlantic Council collegue Barry Pavel, has been posted.

Iran’s path to a nuclear bomb isn’t as easy as most think, Jacques Hymans argues in the current Foreign Policy.

Osama bin Laden’s death provides Barack Obama with an important political shield during the upcoming campaign.

Joe Biden says we can’t afford a president who has to learn foreign policy on the job.

47 percent of Americans disapprove of President Obama’s performance.

Rising fuel prices are starting to hurt the President in the polls, but it’s unclear what that means for November.

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

Marie Colvin of the Sunday Times and Remi Ochlik of Reuters have become the latest journalists to die reporting on the massacres in Syria.

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

We need to have opinions on a subject as serious as war with Iran.

Higher gas prices in the spring could have an impact on the economy, and the election.

Michael Hastings has yet another credulous story attempting to smear the United States military.

Philip Hammond addressed the Atlantic Council this morning in advance of a meeting with Leon Panetta.

Not surprisingly, most of the Republican candidates for President aren’t too keen on reducing the excessive growth in Executive Branch power.

Gary Johnson’s quest is quixotic, but interesting nonetheless.

Understanding the state of the GOP field requires recognizing that President Obama is actually pretty moderate.

Time Magazine has chosen “The Protester” as its Person Of The Year. Let the outrage ensue.

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

Could Newt Gingrich really become the Republican nominee? Stranger things have happened.

There’s a little historical revisionism going on on the right.

Despite our rather obvious problems, we’re in great shape compared to the rest of the developed world and, especially, to even our fairly recent ancestors.

I’ll be liveblogging tonight’s Republican national security debate over at RealClearWorld along with a solid team of foreign policy analyst

Rick Perry wants a no-fly zone in Syria to prevent ground forces from harming civilians.

Herman Cain has either doubled down on his foreign policy ignorance or proven himself a man of great nuance.

We’re running out of excuses.

The former pizza executive is a smart guy. But he’s not fit to run the country.

The Associated Press is trying to fight Twitter rather than engage it.

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