SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 10:52 P.M. ET:

JIMMY'S COMPLAINT – From The Hill:  "Former President Jimmy Carter (D) says he thinks the National Security Agency might be monitoring his emails.  In an interview on NBC’s 'Meet the Press,' Carter said he sends messages to foreign leaders via snail mail instead."  Why would anyone be interested?

NOT SURPRISING – From Breitbart:  "President Barack Obama has spent more time traveling abroad than other U.S. president in history at this point in their presidencies, according to a forthcoming study from the National Taxpayer Union Foundation (NTUF) provided exclusively to Breitbart News ahead of its public release.  'The most internationally well-traveled President, through five years, is also flying the most expensive-to-operate Air Force One to date,' NTUF wrote.  After five years in the White House, Obama has taken 31 trips for a total of 119 days abroad. At that point in George W. Bush’s presidency, Bush had taken 28 trips for 116 days, while Bill Clinton had taken 27 trips for 113 days. Ronald Reagan, after five years, had taken 14 trips for 73 days while Richard Nixon had taken 12 trips for 60 days after five years in the White House and Lyndon Johnson took 10 trips for 34 days at the half-decade mark. Dwight Eisenhower took 8 trips for 31 days after five years in the White House."  But look what we've gained from Obama's trips!  Wait, forget that comment.

ANOTHER FOREIGN POLICY TRIUMPH – From Ahram:  "Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim said on Sunday that Egypt was facing an arms supply problem and was considering importing weapons from Russia.
'There is a problem because there has been a stifling of arms imports from the United States and the European Union' after the ouster of president Mohamed Morsi last summer, Ibrahim told a group of journalists at a meeting."  Russia is emerging once more as a major enemy of the United States.  We worked for years to make Egypt an ally, and succeeded.  Now, under the Obama doctrine of punishing our friends and rewarding our enemies, we're practically delivering Egypt to the Russians in order to punish the Egyptian regime for not showing proper respect for Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood government.  What a triumph.

March 23,  2014