SamIam, I don’t think that anyone in the Administration have the slightest clue as to what foreign policy is. Obama just wants to be loved and, with his popularity no higher than W’s at this same point in his first term, he is searching for someone to love him. He trudges about the rest of the world slamming the US to hear the hollow cheers of people that hate us while most of the second teir ministerial appointments remain unfilled and our economy spins out of control. It’s not like the ship of state has no one at the helm, it is more as if there was no helm at all.

Now the Lebanese have been hung out to dry by the UN (big surprise there, eh) and they can only look to the US or France to save them from descending into civil war or puppet-state status. Hillary fails to say that we will vigorously support Lebanese Democracy, she only says that we will support Lebanese sovreignty, which means that the borders will not be allowed to change. No matter if Syrian thugs run the elections, it’s legitimate. Heck maybe they can have Carter stop by to give his blessings.