Outside the Beltway

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

Dispelling a rising myth,

The United States is, in fact, doing the exact opposite.

Does Hillary Clinton remember that she was Secretary of State for four years?

Iraq’s problems cannot be fixed by the United States.

President Obama doesn’t seem to have any idea what he wants to do in Iraq.

For the second time in just over ten years, the United States is involved in military action in Iraq.

Tea Party backed candidates may have lost most of the GOP primary battles, but they’ve won the war for control of the Republican agenda.

It wasn’t the Democrats.

Fairly or not, the President has created the impression that he is not a good leader, and there’s not much he can do about it at this point.

Crisis seems to be brewing all over the world, but the American people aren’t persuaded that it’s necessary for the United States to act.

Rick Perry and Rand Paul are highlighting what looks to be a coming battle inside the GOP over foreign policy.

In a new survey, Americans cite politics and the news as the biggest sources of stress in their lives.

Iraq continues to fall apart.

Trying to make sense of a very complicated issue.

Americans disapprove of how the President is handling Iraq, but they don’t like what his critics are proposing either.

The First World War played an intriguing role in the birth of the radical Islam we are dealing with today.

Is ISIS’s reach about to exceed its grasp?

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

Is ISIS about to make the situation in the Levant even worse?

When it comes to Iraq, the media only seems to be giving Americans one side of the story.

The evidence is clear. When it comes to the ability to handle foreign crises, the President has lost the public’s confidence.

The Kentucky Senator and former Vice-President are at the front of a battle that will unfold inside the GOP as we head toward 2016.

More bad poll numbers for the President.

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

Iraq’s Prime Minister seems to be responding to the uprising in his country in a way guaranteed to make it worse.

Will ISIS be able to consolidate and hold the territory it’s taken in Iraq?

It’s sure beginning to look like a civil war in Iraq, albeit a rather one sided one at the moment.

The Iraqi government seems to be panicking.

Things only seem to be getting worse in Iraq.

Yet another autiobiography invites public discussion about her accomplishments.

The President’s second speech to the Corps of Cadets is a vast improvement over the first.

Once again, President Obama’s attempt to communicate a foreign policy vision falls short.

The latest chapter in an all too familiar story.

Today’s foreign-policy disputes rarely consider the way America’s response to one crisis might affect another.

The European far right has found a friend in an unlikely place.

Hubris.

Not every tragedy can be resolved with a military response.

The last known case of smallpox happened in 1977. Is it time to destroy the virus?

A new poll indicates that most Americans don’t want to see the United States intervening overseas.

The removal of chemical weapons from Syria is nearly complete. Does Obama deserve credit for that?