If you think having a fidgeting hyper-competitive teenager for your president is a good idea, you may want to think again. In foreign policy terms, it can be a real disaster.

MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin said today that Mitt Romney’s characterization of Moscow as the United States’ “number one geopolitical foe” has actually helped Russia.

The Russian leader said Romney’s comments strengthened his resolve to oppose NATO’s plan for a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe, a system Russia believes will degrade its nuclear deterrent. The U.S. insists the system is aimed at Iran, not Russia.

When a man is so bent on dinging his perceived international lessers that he can’t compliment the British for heaven’s sake during their Olympics, this is what you get. In Mitten’s unsure and undeveloped mind everybody stinks, but it’s still the Soviet-Russians who are really evil. What brilliant foreign policy. He couldn’t wait to tell everybody on the campaign trail, so this is what you get.

And of course Putin will use this idiocy to his advantage. But unlike Romney, Putin has a logical base for ratcheting the mutual tension. It is not crazy for him to say that missile defense could be used against his country. After all 1.) Mitt Romney could easily become president, and 2.) Russia then would be America’s greatest geo-political foe. What would Iran be in comparison? An annoyance?

“I’m grateful to him (Romney) for formulating his stance so clearly because he has once again proven the correctness of our approach to missile defense problems,” Putin told reporters, according to the Russian news agency RIA Novosti.

This is why ambassadors should be silver-tongued devils. The president is our ambassador to the whole planet. Choose one wisely.

Sully v. Negro- Fag-blogger:

When Andrew Sullivan Attacks Me!

It pains me to no end. OK, the “no end” business is a good thing in this case. LOL

Or else Andrew would try to put it in his ass. Fruity!

Note the obligatory homophobia. This is a party that seeks to run a global super-power?

Again, I jest. . . American arrogance toward the Brits and Europe, in general, is nothing new. It’s existed beyond decades. So, I had a bit of fun with it. I took it to number 11, something I’ve been known to do for kicks and giggles.

. . I, frankly, don’t really care what David Cameron thinks, any more than I might care about what some London fishwife thinks. Or, should I say fish fag simply to pull his chain, again?

There’s the ‘faggot.’ We knew that was coming. What passes for Dan’s spicy irreverence? What’s he joshing PM Cameron or the fays about, or what?

A Limp Wrist-ed David Cameron hits back at Mitt Romney over Olympic doubts

Get over it, Britain. You’re a second rate, semi-degenerate nation still on the way down because you went too far to the left too long ago for anyone to care about. Don’t expect us to wring our hands over what you losers did. We’re too busy fighting to make sure it doesn’t happen here.

I really give a flip about what David Cameron thinks. yawn … just be glad we continue to allow you to think you’re actually in the game on most things. Now, get out of our face and try to not screw up the Olympics more than you have already.

Oh very saucy. Quote Oscar Wilde: Dear Britain. Fart your head. You losers and the fairy princess. Crap. Fag president. Balls. You think I care? Retards. You suck. Dick.

You’d think the Netanyahu government would have better things to do. You’d think they’d be happy for whatever friends they could make, especially in a giant well-to-do place like the United States.

Maybe not. Israel’s Ministry of Immigrant Absorption has mounted a public relations campaign warning Israelis in America that their American-Jew boyfriends and Americanized kids are toxic. They’re impure, screwed up. Americans and American ways threaten essential Jewish traditions and integrity, and it’s time everybody knew.

Watch the government’s ad. Look at how Dafna’s boyfriend (husband?) behaves on Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s day for ‘Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism’:

What can you say? He’s just an American.

And this ad? It’s timely. The Israeli grandparents ask the littlest one about the holiday:

Someone slap the pumpkin pie out of her mouth.

Words of advice for Israel. If you’re really at war, you need all the friends you can get. I am American Irish, and I ask: do you know who (foolishly) funded the I.R.A.? Americans. The descendants of the Irish immigrants in America. 15% of the United States now trace their roots back to Ireland. Bibi, you wish you had that sort of constituency.

This was an awful week for Herman Cain.

After Monday, when he couldn’t recall what the devil Libya was, Cain worked mightily to set his campaign back on ‘solid ground.’ He spent the rest of the week attacking something, anything, of the embarrassment to save dignity.

Unfortunately, on Thursday he started weeping in the middle of another media sit-down, this time with WMUR in all-important New Hampshire. Then on Friday, while trotting out yet another defense, he stumbled on the devil again.

Herman Cain thought the Taliban were taking over Libya. A tough week:

“Do I agree that they now have a country where you’ve got Taliban and Al Qaeda that’s gonna be part of the government? Do I agree with not knowing what the government was gonna . . which part was he asking me about?”

There was a widely read piece by Molly Ball in Thursday’s Atlantic titled Herman Cain Meltdown. Molly said Herman was coming apart at the seams.

I’d draw a distinction. While Herman is clearly looking worse for wear, it’s not because he can’t handle the heat. It’s because he’s utterly incompetent. Beyond getting out in front of people and touting himself, he’s got no talent for politics. He’s playing a game he can’t win.

I doubt you’ll ever see him with any better command of foreign policy though he nearly just gaffed his campaign to death. He still has no interest in Libya or Egypt or Afghanistan or any other place as far as three time zones away. You’d ask, “Why doesn’t he sit down with a foreign policy expert, or an international current events primer, or something?” He never wanted to before, and he doesn’t want to now. It’s no more complicated than that.

Let’s not waste too much time on these things:

“If we re-elect Barack Obama, Iran will have a nuclear weapon. And if you elect Mitt Romney, Iran will not have a nuclear weapon,” said Romney.

Look, I realize these Republicans have a tough road to fabricate given how strong President Obama’s been foreign policy-wise. It’s especially tough when a war-first-and-last Party wants to draw distinctions with a President fond of war himself.

But if this is Mitt Romney rolling out the Mitt Romney Warrior Guy product, it didn’t make much of a splash with me, certainly. Teddy Roosevelt dash and rising-temper declarations fall flat when you’re but a spineless flopulator (reminder: the spineful flopulator was a politic-free invention of sheer masochism). No one even believes Mr. Invisible would jawbone with a kook like Ahmedinejad. Republicans can hope he hires John Bolton to do his dirty work, but then you’ve got another massacre on your hands, haven’t you, fools? Time-tested truth: weak people get into wars, kill your family and friends.

Michele, you agree with Mitt?

. . on the level of a parent, I think about my children, if that was my child, and I think my automatic reaction, even though I’m a small woman, I’d want to find that guy and beat him to a pulp . .

Oops, that was Michele on the Penn State scandal. CBS moderators didn’t seem too interested in her opinions, and that’s about all I could find she said this weekend. Nice populist touch, Crazy Eyes.

Rick Perry:

The foreign aid budget in my administration for every country is going to start at zero dollars. Zero dollars. And then we’ll have a conversation. Then we’ll have a conversation in this country about whether or not a penny of our taxpayer dollars needs to go into those countries. And Pakistan is clearly sending us messages, Mitt. It’s clearly sending us messages that they don’t deserve our foreign aid that we’re getting [sic] because they’re not being honest with us.

Speaking of populism, this was about as far as I could stand to watch. Can you imagine zeroing out the foreign aid budget? And what next — demand a parade of foreign envoys drop by the Oval Office and beg for the money back?

Perry is what you’d call a dunderhead. This is how you piss off friends and influence nations. Sure, dozens of African countries would humbly beg for it — plenty of childrens’ lives hang in the balance. But what about Israel? They’d prefer the billions of dollars go unmentioned. While Perry puffed his chest, basking in his chessmaster isolationism, his campaign and supporters, wiser than he, freaked out. Quoth the Rickster minions:

“Gov. Perry is a friend to Israel and understands the challenges faced by the country. He has visited the country several times and has personal relationships with Israeli leaders. While in Israel in 2009, he was also awarded . . ”

This multi-faced self-wrestling prompted ‘me toos’ from other candidates, but then it also drew the strangest of occurrences. A miraculous event, like the sighting of a flying pig at an aeronautics symposium. Sheer sanity flew out of the mouth of Rick Santorum:

Well, let me just stop back and, and — and say I disagree with a lot of what was said up here. Pakistan must be a friend of the United States for the reason that Michele outlined. Pakistan is a nuclear power. And there are people in this– in that country that if they gain control of that country will create a situation equal to the situation that is now percolating in Iran. So we can’t be indecisive about whether Pakistan is our friend.

. . wha – What?

And it’s important for us, with a nuclear power, with a very vast number of people in Pakistan, who are radicalizing, that we keep a solid and stable relationship and work through our difficulties. It is that important, and we must maintain that relationship.

You kidding me? Santorum spends his time migrating from one cloud of evangelical purple haze to another, talking up Jesus, bad-mouthing gays and women and propping up The Crusades. Back in February, he somehow landed on the side of the Christians in that centuries-old, Continental controversy. So he’s on a big roll.

After last year’s killing of La Familia Michoacana’s notorious leader, Nazario Moreno Gonzales, by Mexican law enforcement, the ultra-Christian ultra-violent Mexican drug cartel split into two parts: a surviving La Familia faction, and Los Caballeros Templarios (the Knights Templar).

Violent fighting has erupted between the two factions as they seek control over the lucrative methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana drug trade in and exported from Michoacan and its neighbor states. The most recent fighting has been brutal, with dozens of message-laden bodies left scattered across Southern neighborhoods.

21 Bodies Found in South Mexico
Patrick Corcoran | 09 June 2011

Twenty-one corpses, seemingly killed by suffocation, were found in Michoacan, a state along Mexico’s Pacific coast known as the base of drug trafficking gang the Familia Michoacana.

. . turmoil among the remaining leaders of the Familia, which has been buffeted by a series of blows from the government in recent months, has precipitated a split, with former Familia boss Servando Gomez, alias “La Tuta,” taking a big chunk of the gang and forming a group dubbed the Caballeros Templarios (Knights Templar).

The portion of the group still calling itself the Familia is loyal to leader Jose de Jesus Mendez, alias “El Chango,” and the Caballeros have been battling it out for control of Michoacan, which is a valuable site of methamphetamine production as well as home to one of Mexico’s largest ports, in Lazaro Cardenas.

The most recent killings came over the weekend:

23 Bodies dumped in southern Mexico
June 21, 2011

The bodies of 23 murder victims have been dumped at various locations in the southern Mexican state of Michoacan over the past three days, an official told Efe.

Five men were found shot to death Monday in Paracho, a town about 80 kilometers (50 miles) west of Morelia, the state capital.

The five bodies were left at three different spots in the town, each accompanied by a message claiming responsibility on behalf of Los Caballeros Templarios (Knights Templar), a remnant of the La Familia Michoacana drug cartel, the state official said . .

On Saturday, the bodies of eight murdered men appeared on the streets of Lazaro Cardenas, a port city in Michoacan . .

The La Familia faction led by Jesus Mendez is battling the faction led by Servando Gomez and Enrique Plancarte, who formed Los Caballeros Templarios in March, journalists from Michoacan told Efe.

La Familia Michoacana began unraveling after the death in a shootout with Federal Police officers in late 2010 of Nazario Moreno Gonzalez, known as “El Chayo.”

A total of 15,270 people died in drug-related violence in Mexico last year, and nearly 40,000 people have died since President Felipe Calderon declared war on the country’s cartels shortly after taking office in December 2006.

And now, breaking news: La Familia’s leader, Jose de Jesus Mendez Vargas, got captured by federales yesterday. In the war between the two ultra-Conservative Christianist drug cartels, the advantage swings to the Knights Templar.

After last year’s killing of La Familia Michoacana’s notorious leader, Nazario Moreno Gonzales, by Mexican law enforcement, the ultra-Christian ultra-violent Mexican drug cartel split into two parts: a surviving La Familia faction, and Los Caballeros Templarios (the Knights Templar).

In yet another blow to LFM, their remaining leader, Jose de Jesus Mendez Vargas, was arrested Tuesday.

Mexican authorities: Top cartel leader captured
CNN Wire Staff | June 22, 2011

Mexico City (CNN) — . . Federal police captured Jose de Jesus Mendez Vargas, also known as “El Chango,” in an operation in the state of Aguascalientes, Mexico’s national security spokesman said.

Spokesman Alejandro Poire called Mendez the “principal head” of La Familia Michoacana cartel and said his capture was the federal government’s “most overwhelming blow” to the group.

“This capture destroys what remained of the leadership structure of this criminal organization,” he said.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon praised the capture on his official Twitter account: “A large blow by federal police to organized crime. One of the most wanted criminals was captured. Congratulations.”

Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office had offered a 30 million peso ($2.5 million) reward for information leading to his arrest, saying Mendez was the mastermind behind drug trafficking, kidnappings and killings.

It’s a significant win for the federales, Calderon, and the people of Mexico:

La Familia Michoacana are extremely twisted, violent and right-wing (see here). The numbers of people that have died at the hands of the Christianist beheaders may total in the thousands.

I wouldn’t bet against their former brothers, now rivals, the Knights Templar, tipping off the federales to Mendez Vargas’ whereabouts in order to eliminate him. Both factions are well-tied to police and other law enforcement personnel.

First, it was the end of President Ben Ali in Tunisia. Next, it was . . seemingly everybody . .

Have the people of Tunisia changed the face of the Middle East?
Xavier Zapata | BBC | Wednesday, 2 February 2011

Last month an unemployed young man set himself on fire in Tunisia, and the flames appear to have engulfed a region. Officials wouldn’t let Mohamed Bouazizi sell vegetables without a licence, and his desperate act triggered an upsising that toppled the government of President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali. Since then we’ve seen a dramatic chain reaction, as people across the Arab World have protested against what they see as authoritarian and oppressive rule. Events have been moving at breathtaking speed . .

In Egypt:

Mubarak Says He Will Not Run for Presidency Again
Reuters and AP with CNBC.com | Tuesday, 1 Feb 2011

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said on Tuesday he would not leave Egypt although he would step down from the presidency at the end of his term, due to end when the country holds a presidential election in September . .

He also said pledged to implement a series of reforms, including calling on the judiciary to combat corruption, one of the complaints of protesters who have pushed him to announce an end to his presidency later this year.

In Jordan:

Jordan’s King Dismisses Government Amid Protests
By HASSAN HAFIDH and FARNAZ FASSIHI | Associated Press | Feb 2 2011

AMMAN—Jordan’s King Abdullah II fired his government and named a new prime minister who he said would be responsible for enacting “true” political reforms, the latest in a handful of moves announced Tuesday across the region that appeared aimed at tamping down growing popular anger at political and economic malaise.

On a day that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak faced hundreds of thousands of angry protesters with a pledge that he wouldn’t seek re-election, leaders around the region took steps to hold on to their own power.

In Yemen:

Yemeni president vows to step down after term, as protests spark changes across Arab world
Haretz | 2 2 2011

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, a key U.S. ally against Al-Qaida, said on Wednesday he will not seek to extend his presidency in a move that would end his three-decade rule when his current term expires in 2013.

Eyeing protests that swept Tunisia’s leader from power and threaten to topple Egypt’s president, Saleh also vowed not to pass on the reins of government to his son. He also appealed to the opposition to call off protests as a large rally loomed.

The unrest grows in Syria:

Syrians called to join in anti-government protests
Peter Cave | ABC.net | Mon Jan 31, 2011

Syria looks set to join the growing list of Middle East regimes facing mass, anti-government demonstrations . .

Organisers have begun circulating leaflets and messages on the internet demanding freedom of speech, human rights and economic reforms and they are asking demonstrators to rally outside parliament house in Damascus, the Syrian capital.

The strict authoritarian government of Syrian president Bashar Assad has already broken up attempts to rally outside the Egyptian embassy and has begun deploying troops in the northern city of Aleppo ahead of planned protest rallies there.

. . and in Algeria:

The Revolution Continues – Unrest in Algeria, Jordan
Erin | Africana Online | January 31, 2011

Algeria, another northern African nation, has also been inspired by neighboring Tunisia and is seeing massive protests. More than 10,000 protesters marched against authorities in Algeria’s northeastern city of Bejaia on Saturday in the country’s largest rally yet. Demonstrators marched peacefully in the city, chanting slogans such as: “For a radical change of the regime!” RCD leader Said Sadi, whose group organized the rally, said, “The protest gathered more than 10,000 people.” The police were out but the protesters dispersed peacefully. In Algeria, as in Egypt and Tunisia, residents are growing frustrated with rising costs and unemployment. Three-fourths of Algerians are under 30. Most of them do not have jobs or apartments, despite the fact that the state assets are full with money from oil and gas exports . .

After riots broke out earlier in the month that left five people dead and over 800 injured, Algiers responded swiftly by reducing the prices of oil, sugar and other basic necessities which had risen sharply. The government also assured citizens that subsidies on essential goods like flour would continue. But, longtime President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is supported by a corrupt circle of military officers and secret police and his assurances did little to calm the unrest in the country. Similar to Tunisia and Egypt, more residents are using public suicide in an effort to protest the government. Within the past two weeks, eight people have set themselves on fire, most jobless and desperate.

Guess who’s going to run for President in 2012? And get his ass thoroughly kicked? The odious ‘kiss up, kick down’ warmonger, John Bolton.

Gee, John, whaddya think about this Wikileaks thing? Let me guess: somebody’s brains better get spilled?

Bolton on WikiLeaks: ‘Treason, Punishable by Death’
November 29, 2010 | Brian Bolduc | National Review Online

Former ambassador John Bolton tells National Review Online that he would charge Pfc. Bradley Manning with treason for sharing U.S. intelligence with Wikileaks. “I believe treason is still punishable by death and if he were found guilty, I would do it,” Bolton says.

John being a manly manly man — always demanding the military go in and kill all the people he personally fears, chiefly everyone in Iran — I believe he really means “I’d have somebody else do it for me.”

Discussing the revelations themselves, Bolton is not surprised. On Arab countries’ anxiety over Iran’s nuclear program, he notes, “I’ve known this for a long time. It’s one reason I’ve had confidence in saying that the Middle East wouldn’t dissolve into turmoil if the U.S. or Israel attacked the Iranian nuclear weapons program. That’s what the Gulf States in particular have wanted us to do.”

Because in the power game endlessly being played out in John Bolton’s Tom-Clancy-and-American-Exceptionalism wallpapered brain, measly citizens don’t exist. The hoi polloi are but extras milling about the background of the set.

The American military ants will do their jobs. Targets will be erased, rogues will be humbled. The Middle East governments will be good with it. Everything will be fine.

Well, sure, all sorts of people will die, but that’s how the old power game goes. Can’t make any trans-national omelets without cracking some skulls. And not without killing our military people, but they were born to die, right?

BTW, who killed all those Americans on 9/11? The pissed off, anti-American hoi polloi of Saudi Arabia. What drives most of the furious Middle Eastern anti-Americanism that makes terrorism possible? Our conditionless backing of Israel while it kills the Palestinian hoi polloi.

John Bolton thinks this is all some sort of frustrating game in which the most powerful player is never really allowed to strut his stuff. And, by that, I mean he thinks we could kill far more people than we’re killing, and that would terrify and impress the shit out of governments and diplomats, and then we’d get everything we want. John Bolton is the sort of foreign affairs neanderthal that gives us nightmares.

Sher Zieve’s poisonous intellect has never threatened so much as a cyanotic rat. That’s why she’s entertaining as hell:

November 3, 2010
Obama moving White House to India?
By Sher Zieve | RenewAmerica.com

Despite yesterday’s election, it is now blatantly obvious that Obama & Co neither cares about the United States of America nor its people.

Sher Zieve neither care about English. Sher cares neither for writing bothers nor to ask for help. Sher do bring up one issue, though: what are difference between United States of America and their people? Discuss.

Today, the US tyrant — along with an estimated 50 jumbo jets full of his 3,000 person entourage — will fly Air Force One (followed by the second AF One and Marine One copters) to Mumbai, India where he and his merry minions will take over the entire Taj Mahal and other hotels.

. . the US Tyrant being an Airbus Thirty-Eight-Million equipped with dungeons and Swiss bank accounts large enough to squirrel away Air Force One. Why would we liberals fly 50 jumbo jets with 60 people each when we could fly just 20 jumbos with 150? First class, baby. I actually lobbied for 1000 planes so that we could fit in the cockpits and make ‘rrrooowwwrrr’ noises all the way there. But then Barack reminded me of the ‘No Cocaine’ FAA cockpit rule.

Nice of The Indians to convert that 17th century mausoleum, one of the architectural wonders on planet Earth, into a hotel for The Obama. Oh — wait — Sher might mean one of the Taj Hotels, like that one in Mumbai that suffered the terrorist attack in 2008! Yes, he’ll be there, and he rented out all 570 rooms. The Indians were happy to oblige, it’s pretty much S.O.P. security stuff for Presidents far abroad. Or, Presidents bar-a-fraud. Heh, pardon me. It’s within your purview, Mister Usurper.

The now fully visible to the entire world hedonist and “Neroistc” monarch Obama will spend at least $200 Millions PER DAY of OUR money to indulge his every whim and fantasy. As members of his now wholly-owned media are traveling with him, any news about this grotesque and extreme extravagant waste of taxpayer money — especially considering the US’ current financial disaster brought on principally by this same “monarch” — is virtually, if not literally, criminal.

. . that’s why the orphaned media unknowns Matt Drudge, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage and Don Imus are all in San Quentin:

How in the world can The Obama return to the USA after this extraordinary, open abject theft of taxpayer money which he is now laughing about and shoving — even more so — in our faces? What kind of perverse being now occupies the highest elected position in our land?

This kind (below).

We-the-People have completed Phase One of restoring OUR Republic — taking back the US House of Representatives . . However, it may be time to address the Executive Branch. If the head of it hasn’t committed high crimes and misdemeanors one must ask if those crimes actually exist — at all. Isn’t it time to remove the pretender to the office? Isn’t it?

You’re asking me? Naaaaaaw.

Umm, yes? *end article* So long, thanks for all the word-reading?

Darn, can’t believe I got it wrong.

Oh HO! So that’s their game, is it? Lying? Hiding things? Doing sneaky stuff?

Well, we sure are screwed now, aren’t we? Sure would have been smart of us to think it through. Or maybe hide a hydrogen bomb or two. Like, maybe . . oh . . . RIGHT HERE UNDER THE DESK!! HA HA!!

IN YOUR FACE NORTH KOREA. I actually hid dozens of them, they’re all over the joint. You’re sitting on one. Got one jammed under the short leg of the dining table.

Pakistani Reports Capture of Taliban Leader
By PIR ZUBAIR SHAH and DEXTER FILKINS
Published: February 22, 2010

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — In another blow to the Taliban senior leadership, Pakistani authorities have captured Mullah Abdul Kabir, a member of the group’s inner circle and a leading military commander against American forces in eastern Afghanistan, according to a Pakistani intelligence official . .

Mullah Kabir was detained several days ago in Nawshera, in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province, the Pakistani official said, speaking on condition of anonymity . .

The capture of Mullah Kabir appeared to be a strictly Pakistani operation, and Pakistani officials appeared to be keeping Mullah Kabir’s arrest a closely held secret, even from their American allies.

Mullah Kabir is a longtime associate of Mullah Omar, the Taliban’s founder. He was the governor of Nangarhar Province, in eastern Afghanistan, when the Taliban ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. Since then, he has overseen military operations in eastern Afghanistan, including those in Kunar, Nangarhar, Nuristan and Laghman Provinces.”