ANOTHER BAD DAY FOR AMERICA – AT 8:23 A.M. ET:  The great Ed Lasky (American Thinker) alerts us to a blunt piece by Ralph Peters, reviewing a bad day for American foreign policy, courtesy of The One and his brilliant thoughts:

Wednesday, March 24, 2010, was the worst day for US diplomacy in recent memory.

Between sunrise and sunset, we 1) handled our Israeli allies as enemies, 2) treated Pakistani gangsters as our benefactors and 3) got blindsided -- brilliantly -- by the Russians.

But who cares, as long as we've started down the road to socialized medicine?

First, the Russians: Well aware that President Obama desperately wants to hold in his hand a piece of paper guaranteeing nuclear arms cuts in our time, Moscow has been stalling and brawling to force us to bend to its will.

With a few last sticking points in play (which the White House refuses to make public), the Russian government blindsided US negotiators by announcing that the deal was done and the signing was on the calendar.

Folks, this is diplomacy at a level we can't begin to touch. With their unilateral announcement, the Russians ensured that Obama will cave on the final points -- otherwise, it would look as though he scuttled the disarmament deal and undercut his own argument for anti-nuclear sanctions on Iran.

Could we please hire Russian negotiators to work for us?

One of the things we've noted here in the last year is the sheer incompetence of Obama's foreign-policy team, starting with the increasingly heavy-handed Hillary Clinton.  

Simultaneously, the administration welcomed a Pakistani delegation with orgiastic generosity. The Pakistanis scribbled out the bill, and we whipped out our credit card.

Pakistan's undercutting every reform effort we've made in Afghanistan and setting itself up to be the one entity that profits from our blood sacrifices. Pakistani intelligence (the ISI) has been busting every Taliban member it can't control to enhance its clout in Afghanistan. And we imagine they're doing it for us.

And...

Last, but not least, there's our arctic treatment of Benjamin Netanyahu and our Israeli allies. Kim Jong-Il or Hugo Chavez would've gotten a warmer White House reception than Bibi did.

Wednesday in Washington was dedicated to shooting down one Israeli compromise offer after another. Of course, we haven't asked those valiant Palestinian freedom fighters (unfairly considered terrorists by reactionaries like me) to compromise a fraction of an inch.

The Palestinians dictate, the White House obeys.

Finally...

The ultimate travesty, of course, is that the Obama administration will spin each of Wednesday's triple-whammy debacles as a triumph. It showed those wicked Israelis who's boss; it gave treacherous Pakistanis all they demanded, and it got tricked by Russia into further weakening our strategic defenses.

This isn't a pattern of failure. It's a surrender cult.

COMMENT:  Ah, but Mr. Peters, the far left, both politically and journalistically, has no problem with surrender.  They welcome it.  Let's restrain the big, bad United States so that other "cultures" can take their rightful place in the world.  This is what they did in Vietnam.  They'll do it wherever they can. 

The sad fact is that there are "communities" in the United States who have no problem at all with the surrender cult.  They've been taught to believe that they're victims, and that the more the United States capitulates overseas, the more attention will be paid to them.  They live by their myths.

March 26, 2010