In response to:
Telling the Taliban how long they would have to wait before there would be no American troops in Afghanistan so they knew when to attack. Temporising with Iran over their Nuclear programme. Failing Israel and demanding they return to the 1967 borders, borders which almost got them wiped out, and which if Iran and Hamas have their way WILL get them wiped out.
America is now weaker than it has been since before WW l in many ways, and it will only get weaker under this Administration.
Remember Vice President Joe Biden's foreign policy speech at New York University last week? He slammed Mitt Romney for his "ignorance" about missile defense, and claimed that President Obama had managed to "reset" our relationship with Russia. Well, it looks like relations are still tenuous with our former chief global adversary. They're convinced that NATO missile defense sites sprinkled around Europe are aimed at Russian nuclear weapons, and not Iran, as the Alliance maintains. And if they don't like the look of the program, they're willing to strike pre-emptively:
Russia’s most senior military officer said Thursday that...
It would be interesting to see what would happen if Israel would make that suggestion.