Begging the increasingly salient question: devious realist payback or total fucking amateur hour? Officials in Jerusalem are quietly scratching their heads in wonderment as to why the White House did not release an official statement condemning yesterday's tractor terrorist rampage here, the third a...

Lots of people are pretty het up about how the UK is admitting Hezbollah Media Relations Officer Ibrahim Moussawi - a venomous and genocidal anti-Semite - after bouncing Wilders: There can be little doubt now that this government, a Labour government, is going to allow Hezbollah's Media Relations Of...

When Britain announced that they'd be engaging the child murdering pathological lunatics from Hezbollah, the idea was that they'd get Hezbollah to change their tone: On Wednesday, a British minister said the government was open to talks with Hezbollah's political wing. "We have reconsidered the posi...

While Barack Obama disses the closest of US  allies, by both returning a bust of Winston Churchill, as well as barley acknowledging Gordon Brown’s visit, it appears that he is snuggling up to sworn enemies of the US. Kind of odd diplomacy, isn’t it? With news that Obama plans on lighten...

Hillary Clinton’s media savvy was on full display Saturday during an appearance on the Turkish equivalent of “The View.” Dishing on family and fashion, Clinton was by all accounts a hit in a country where only 9 percent view the U.S. favorably. MSNBC: Christian Science Monitor: Cli...

Stephen Walt has been condescendingly mocking people who think that Chas Freeman is a Saudi tool: Jonathan Chait says I'm "paranoid," that I "went bonkers" in a recent blog post, and that my scholarship is "wildly hyperbolic." He says his real objection to Charles Freeman's appointment as chair of t...

Reasons Why Your President is an Asshole incapable of Leading a Three-Year Old to the Crapper...A round up of articles as to why President Obambi is such a wreck:1. He's tired and needs a cigarette - From the Telegraph in the UK. Please note the really special sentiment expressed by an Obamacon that...

Not Ready for Prime Time...Oh, you people suck! You've really done it now! You've pissed off the Brits! The British Prime Minister came to pay his respects and was given a foretaste of what Obama's AmeriKKKa will soon look like; listless, unenthusiastic, disinterested, worn out, ungracious -- and da...

This nonsense started during the transition and extended through the inauguration, with Obama snubbing India in favor of Pakistan, Israel in favor of the Palestinians, and the Philippines in favor of Iran. Now the White House seems to be brainstorming new and better ways to snub Britain: the Churchi...

Most of the time I look at the Obama Administration and think, with much relief, how nice it is to have grownups back in charge. When it comes to diplomatic protocol, however, the last few days have been pretty much amateur hour. At least the Russians took State's SNAFU with a bit more humor. Sue Pl...