Still Not Bush, Of Course

Our president said he'd restore our reputation abroad.

Most recently, he spied on the citizens of  the international community and their businesses with the NSA, embarrassing allied governments and angering their people.

But let's not forget past smart diplomacy!

He brushed off the British--who fought and bled with us in Iraq and Afghanistan--and implies the Falklands just might be Argentina's property.

He frightened Eastern Europeans by bailing out on a planned missile defense system on the anniversary of the day the Soviet Union invaded Poland in 1939.

He escalated the war in Afghanistan.

He escalated drone strikes around the Middle East.

He violated Pakistani neutrality to kill a man revered in significant parts of the Moslem world in Abbottabad, and then dumped the body like a bundle of chum into the ocean.

He tricked the United Nations into granting authorization for a no-fly zone over Libya that he twisted into a bombing campaign (without Congressional authorization) aimed at regime change.

He keeps alleged Moslem terrorists indefinitely in Guantanamo Bay detention facility.

He wages cyber-war on a member of the United Nations.

He even bombed the moon. (Remember that one?)

I can't even say I'm against all of these things, in part or in whole (although the bombing the moon thing was a bit much). But does our president believe that he is uniquely able to do what he wants and enjoy the applause of foreigners regardless, simply because he isn't George W. Bush?

Hey, rubes? How'd that bestowing the Nobel Peace Prize on President Obama work to "encourage his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperation rather than unilateralism?"