Outside the Beltway

American journalist James Foley has been beheaded by the terrorist network calling itself the Islamic State.

The justice system works, there’s no need to scrap it.

For some reason, President Obama wants to arm so-called “moderate” Syrian rebels.

If President Obama does decide to use military force in Iraq, he should be required to seek Congressional approval beforehand.

The Iraqi government seems to be panicking.

Good intentions and good results aside, the President’s disrespect for the Rule Of Law should concern everyone.

Yet another autiobiography invites public discussion about her accomplishments.

A new set of emails is reviving the old partisan arguments about the attack in Benghazi.

A new book by former SecDef Robert Gates is making political waves in Washington power circles, but will it matter to ordinary Americans?

The North Koreans are back to their old tricks.

Jofi Joseph was unmasked as the obnoxious @NatSecWonk and fired by the White House.

Raymond Pritchett longs for the good old days of Tom Donilan, Hillary Clinton, and Leon Panetta.

We’re almost certainly going to launch punitive strikes against Syria. They’ll almost certainly be ineffective.

While the military was ousting Egypt’s democratically elected president, the US Secretary of State was on his yacht.

The U.S. is now confirming that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons. What’s next?

How would the addition of Susan Rice and Samantha Power to the President’s foreign policy team affect policy toward Syria’s civil war?

Denied her chance at being Secretary of State, Susan Rice will be moving to a position that is arguably just as important in shaping American foreign policy.

The Obama Administration’s aggressive pursuit of leaks is threatening freedom of the press.

The talking points prepared in the immediate aftermath of the Benghazi attack were heavily edited at the request of the State Department.

Tom Brokaw has some good criticisms of what the White House Correspondent’s Association Dinner has turned into.

Samantha Power is leaving the Obama administration to spend more time with her family. No, really.

Has Petraeus provided the basic explanation for the administration’s immediate responses to Benghazi?

The Administration’s decision to stick with the meme that the Benghazi attack was about a movie becomes more puzzling.

In another sign that things may not be going so well between Washington and Jerusalem, President Obama will not be meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu when he’s in the United States.

Condoleeza Rice’s first trip onto the political stage was very successful last night. Where will she go from here?

We’re hearing the howls of a wounded bear.

The CIA’s drone war in Pakistan has gotten so out of hand that the Pentagon and State Department are reigning it in.

Herman Cain’s promise to rely on “experts” should raise eyebrows everywhere.

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

Rick Perry’s speech criticizing the President’s policies in the Middle East raised more questions than it answered.

Dick Cheney’s long-awaited book’s out and he promises lots of bombshells that will have heads exploding in DC.

So, you want a career in foreign policy field and are weighing your options….

Andrew Bacevich refers to Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice, and Samantha Power as “the Three Harpies.”

The re-emergence of Obama foreign policy advisor Samantha Power to prominence has brought critics to the forefront

President Obama says he acted in Libya to avert an imminent genocide, but there’s no evidence that any such thing was about to occur.

Haley Barbour is making all the moves toward a 2012 Presidential run, but his stand on immigration issues could pose a problem in the Republican primaries.