We’ve watched the State Department chew up & spit out any semblance of the grit necessary to confront these obvious threats to our long term security that might have been present in Condi or Colin when they assumed “leadership” of this Pompous Palace of Platitudes.

Maybe it’s simply time to admit that there is no sign of the leadership necessary to avert disaster on the horizon, nor is its emergence likely in the near future. No wake-up call will be heard, no unity of purpose likely with such as speaker Pelosi already consumed with “saving the world” in her own cerebral venue; and as far as Obama ….Lord help us! McCain? All too unlikely but perhaps the spark of a chance.

I’m not optimistic.