Meanwhile, Ukraine is threatened with civil war:
Defiant protesters shouted "Glory to Ukraine" as burning tents lit up the night sky after thousands of riot police moved against the sprawling protest camp in the center of Kiev on Tuesday.
The police, armed with stun grenades and water cannons, attacked the camp after at least 13 people — including six officers — died and hundreds were injured in street clashes.
Venezuela, too:
Tens of thousands of protesters flooded the streets of Venezuela's capital on Tuesday after troops arrested opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez on charges of fomenting unrest against the government and violence that has killed at least four people.
Post-war Libya is still unstable:
Two heavily armed Libyan militias demanded on Tuesday the country's parliament hand over power immediately in what the head of the assembly dismissed as an attempted coup that would be confronted by the army if necessary.
Iran demonstrated the pointless nature of our nuclear talks:
Iran drew a red line on Tuesday on how far it would go at landmark nuclear talks, saying as the meeting opened that it would not buckle to pressure from the U.S. and five other world powers to scrap any of its nuclear facilities.
The statement by Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi suggested tough talks ahead, constituting a rejection of a central demand by the six countries.
Syria isn't working out as well as they assumed a hands-off anti-Bush policy would work:
With peace talks failing, Syria's government on the offensive and moderate rebels pushed aside by al-Qaida-linked militants, the Obama administration is struggling for new ideas to halt a savage civil war.
Officials say the crisis is also an accelerating national security threat to the United States, prompting a fresh look at previously shelved ideas, including more robust assistance to Western-backed rebels.
Jihadsi want to destabilize Egypt and bombed a tourist bus.
Protests continue in Thailand, reflecting deep divisions in the country.
Fighting continues in South Sudan.
The bloodbath continues in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has been mired in massive killing for decades, now.
The Great Islamist Hope of Turkey is putting the screws to Internet freedom as part of a general assault on democracy.
As Iraq battles al Qaeda terrorists who have seized and held territory all year, that walking piece of breathing garbage, three-time insurrectionist Moqtada al-Sadr, is once again threatening the fragile democracy of Iraq:
In a televised speech from his home in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, al-Sadr sharply criticized the Iraqi government for failing to achieve security, or improve public services or the economy.
"Politics has become a gateway for injustice, recklessness and abuses by a dictator and tyrant who controls the funds only to steal them, bombs the cities, creates divisions among sects, buys loyalty and breaks the hearts so that all will vote for him to stay in power," al-Sadr said, reading from a written statement. "Iraq is being governed by blood-thirsty wolves and people panting after money while leaving the people engulfed with suffering and fear."
I said it in 2004 and I'll say it again, until that man is 6-feet deep, he is a threat to Iraq's future.
Saudi Arabia and our Gulf allies remain unhappy with us.
China remains a looming threat to its neighbors.
And Kerry counts it as a success that after North Korea has detonated several nuclear devices, China promises to help with that problem from Hell:
US Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday he had won China's commitment to do more to prod North Korea to rein in its nuclear programme, on a trip seeking to defuse heightened regional tensions.
Hey, at least diplomacy crossed the man's mind.
All that and more remain on the Secretary of State's list of problems he is supposed to be tackling as our chief diplomat.
But by all means, John, take selfies with Indonesian students while you bravely battle climate change:
Worst. Secretary of State. Ever.
