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Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., flanked by Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, and Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., the ranking member, guides a confirmation vote on Capitol Hill, April 23, 2018.
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Congress is letting the public down on holding the administration accountable on foreign policy

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announces the creation of the Iran Action Group at the State Department, in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018.
Beltway Confidential

On Yemen, Mike Pompeo gets it very wrong

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel talks to the media during a news conference.
Beltway Confidential

Is Angela Merkel’s political star fading?

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President Trump reaches to shake hands with North Korea leader Kim Jong Un at the Capella resort on Sentosa Island in Singapore on June 12, 2018.
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With North Korea, denuclearization isn’t possible through negotiation

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Former White House strategist Steve Bannon addresses members of the far-right National Front party at the party congress in the northern French city of Lille, Saturday, March 10, 2018.
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This New Yorker reader wanted to see Steve Bannon interviewed — and debated

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In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, the guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) launches a tomahawk land attack missile in the Mediterranean Sea, Friday, April 7, 2017. The United States blasted a Syrian air base with a barrage of cruise missiles in fiery retaliation for this week's gruesome chemical weapons attack against civilians.
Beltway Confidential

Will Congress let Trump strike Syria again?

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Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., wrote in a letter that Carter should not make any major changes to military personnel ratings, standards, uniforms and jobs in the next two months. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)
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Can the GOP fill John McCain’s Senate shoes?

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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. smiles as he listens to a question during his public address at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School, Friday April 25, 2014, in Cambridge, Mass. Fighting to move beyond his father's shadow, Paul is crafting new alliances with the Republican Party establishment during a Northeast tour that began Friday in Boston. The 51-year-old Kentucky Republican, son of libertarian hero and former Texas Rep. Ron Paul, headlined an afternoon luncheon hosted by top lieutenants of former presidential nominee Mitt Romney _ a private meeting that comes as Paul weighs a 2016 presidential bid of his own.
Beltway Confidential

Rand Paul gets something about Russia that other senators don’t

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Men carry the coffin of a relative who died in a deadly suicide bombing that targeted a training class in a private building in the Shiite neighborhood of Dasht-i Barcha, in western Kabul, Afghanistan.
Beltway Confidential

Trump administration should recognize Afghanistan is an unwinnable war

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This June 10, 2017 photo provided by Operation Resolute Support, U.S. Soldiers with Task Force Iron maneuver an M-777 howitzer, so it can be towed into position at Bost Airfield, Afghanistan. Sixteen years into its longest war, the United States is sending another 4,000 troops to Afghanistan in an attempt to turn around a conflict characterized by some of the worst violence since the Taliban were ousted in 2001. They are also facing the emergence of an Islamic State group affiliate and an emboldened Taliban, who by Washington’s own watchdog’s assessment now control nearly half of Afghanistan.
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Frontline soldiers risk their lives in war while failed decision-makers move on

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