Diplomacy of Barack Obama

This warrants a longer post, but this being Monday and well me being not so articulate I wanted to highlight I few things. As neo-neocon points out it seems the European love affair with BO is starting to sour.

It also seems that it's okay to stay out of Iranian matters, but perfectly okay to interfere with Handuras when the thug in charge leans towards you own lefty philosophy.

As for Israeli-Palestinian conflict it seems charm and "blunt" words have little effect on advancing the two state solution. As my friend Yuri writes about Obama's insistence on stopping the development in Jerusalem:

The strong-arming of Israel continues, but at least not without answer from Netanyahu and other Likudniks. Again, we have our two-faced President purporting not to interfere with sovereign affairs of other nations, and then trying to dictate to Jerusalem where to build or not to build on land indisputably part of Israel. Does Netanyahu dictate to Obama where to build in DC? in New York? Puerto Rico? You better believe, no. Obama should stay out of this issue - it's really, truly none of his business