China wants Taiwan. The controversy in Australia regarding Fitzgibbon and Mme Liu is really tied to China wanting Taiwan. Helen Liu is in charge of an association for the reunification of China – it is sponsored by the Chinese government and Liu is just a front.

China will take Taiwan by force if necessary, and Obama is in the process of leaving the Taiwanese high and dry. Do some reading on the history of China, and the takeover by Mao. The previous government actually fled to Taiwan.

The reset button stunt was so totally stupid. It was like a green light to the Russians to go ahead and build their alliances all over the world.

It would seem that Obummer and Clinton are oblivious to the fact that Putin was a former KGB spy.

Hey, but at least our would-be allies now know better than to trust us!

Hillary tweaked Barack Obama for only bringing a speech to office as experience compared to her “lifetime” on the world stage, but as it turns out, both of them are equally bad at this business.

Hillary was only qualified when compared to the naif, Obama. The truth is that the two Democratic finalists in their primaries were also two of the most under-qualified major candidates in decades.

Just as in the ’30s, westerners confuse non-confrontation with peace. Non-confrontation leads to war. But once again, that lesson will be revisited. This time, however, it will precipitate the end of the world.

keep the change on April 16, 2009 at 10:21 AM

Einstein though the cosmological constant was his biggest blunder. He was wrong.
His biggest blunder was “one cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.”
The truth is, one cannot prevent a war without preparing for it.

Russia took the measure of US diplomacy and decided that “smart power” meant “paper tiger”.

Where are you getting the “tiger” part of that?

Boy, who knew that the recet button reset us all the way back to 1978! What a cool trick!

crazy_legs on April 16, 2009 at 12:30 PM

Austin Power’s pimp-mobile was busy…

why blame the weak one for not solving all the problems? what about the “strong” one that passed the buck?

ernesto on April 16, 2009 at 11:51 AM

Your shortsightedness is disheartening.

Status quo would have been good enough for me. These blunders reveal Obama as weak, regardless of what went before. And the world will take advantage of that weakness.

Look for Russia to install Russia-friendly governments all over their ‘former’ “sphere of influence” now that we’re obviously not in the game.

Beagle on April 16, 2009 at 12:13 PM

Saakashvili is currently in this pickle, as the people protest his government and the Russians build-up forces in South Ossetia to “offset internal dissent.”

The game is afoot!

Lavrov waved aside recent US attempts to use a controversial missile shield as a means to buy Moscow’s support for tougher sanctions against the Islamic Republic.

This part is especially interesting to me, in that it exposes to Ahmedinejad that some sort of “back-room deal” was being cut – putting to lie the “open-hand” diplomacy with Tehran that Obama promised.

Putin plays cut-throat.

You are amazingly uncreative and uninformed.

Russia has threatened to nuke Poland within the last year and North Korea just shot a missile over Japan.

mjtyson on April 16, 2009 at 11:50 AM

Best assignment I ever had…

And your points are 100% valid.

Beagle on April 16, 2009 at 11:19 AM

oh your choices, only 1 is even remotely realistic, and thats the Iranian/Israeli thing. that said, if i were to believe the Israeli assumptions, Iran should’ve been lobbing nukes all over the place say…8 years ago.

not saying they aren’t getting closer…just that the sky has been falling for some time now, and the buck was passed from a supposedly strong leader to a supposedly weak one. why blame the weak one for not solving all the problems? what about the “strong” one that passed the buck?

What has our country come to, what a shame.

If there are any little islands in the South China Sea held by Taiwan but contested by China, I’d be nervous. China’s oil buddy Sudan? Nothing will happen to Bashir on Obama’s watch. Another campaign promise bites the dust. At least the Bush Administration called it a genocide and tried to rally international support for action.

China is funding the Great Obama Society of Deficit Spending, so they’ll probably test us pretty soon. I’ll bet they perceive a green light.

Ever get that “someday we’re going to be invaded and taken over” feeling?

scalleywag on April 16, 2009 at 11:27 AM

Yeah, after that Gordon Brown fiasco, the i-pod with the speeches, and the “touching” of the Queen, I thought she would order a take-over and kidnap Obama right on the spot. Then she would hold him for ransom and no body would pay because we are broke. She could hold both of them in the Tower. Apparently she wasn’t THAT offended. Too bad, I was.

This time, however, it will precipitate the end of the world.

keep the change on April 16, 2009 at 10:21 AM

I’m trying to remain calm here. Help me out, will ya?

please, thats so 80’s.

ernesto on April 16, 2009 at 10:41 AM

Oh yes. After all, greed, power, & lust for power by dominating powerful countries, taking their stuff, etc is so archaic of an idea no body thinks about it anymore.
Russia just wants everyone to love them, that’s why they want to build more nukes & flex their muscles again.
If we just talk to them & listen to their feelings, this will all go away.
After all, Stalin was sooooo 40′s & ’50s!