QUOTE OF THE DAY - AT 9:23 A.M. ET:  From the terrific Mark Steyn, summing up the Obama foreign policy at NRO:

Since January, President Obama and his team have schmoozed, ineffectively, American enemies over allies in almost every corner of the globe. If you’re, say, India, following Obama’s apology tour even as you watch the Taliban advancing on those Pakistani nukes, would you want to bet the future on American resolve? In Delhi, in Tokyo, in Prague, in Tel Aviv, in Bogota, they’ve looked at these first 100 days and drawn their own conclusions.

COMMENT:  Steyn is right.  One of the fundamentals in foreign policy is to ask, "Who will trust us?"  I suspect that list is getting shorter and shorter by the day.  We hope for a correction, especially after the damage done in the past few weeks by memogate - the reckless release of those CIA internal memos.  We hope and hope.

April 26, 2009