By James Joyner

The Atlantic alliance said it wouldn't go into Libya, but did. On Syria, the same promises are more credible.

Atrocity prevention isn't consistently practiced because it isn't consistently practical.

Paul Wolfowitz continues to be wrong about Iraq.

A tendency to expand objectives mid-fight has seen America fail in its last four major wars.

A Department of Justice memo asserts that the executive branch can unilaterally order U.S. citizens murdered without so much as a criminal charge.

The two presidents take a very similar approach to intervention.

Obama's UN warnings to Tehran were based on a bizarre premise—that the Islamic Republic cannot be contained.