QUOTE OF THE DAY - AT 9:28 A.M. ET:  The backlash against the release of the Lockerbie bomber continues.  It seems to have unleashed pent up resentment, not only toward Western appeasement of terrorists, but toward the Obama administration and its "outreach" to everyone with grudge.  Reader Alan Weick alerts us to this, from Abe Greenwald at Contentions:

Barack Obama has so ably repaired the once frayed ties with our Bush-abused allies that UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown couldn’t do us the minute favor of keeping the convicted mass murderer of American citizens from being sprung and delivered into a Libyan hero’s welcome.

Hillary Clinton has been so levelheaded (so nonideological) in her pursuit of improved relations with Libya that Muammar Qaddafi simply had to meet terrorist Abdel Basset al-Megrahi at the airport to hug and kiss him and proclaim his love for both the killer and the British Crown before the world.

This is what all that goodwill and all those apologies have reaped? The unprecedented coupling of our best friend with one of our worst enemies?

And considering that this was all probably orchestrated in the interest of opening up British-Libya oil ties, the old nugget “blood for oil” seems particularly apt.

Hey, the important thing is: no more cowboy diplomacy, right? No more go-it-alone, unilateral, with-us-or-against-us, good-and-evil hooey. That was for simpletons. We’re in the hands of geniuses now.

COMMENT:  And coming soon to a news outlet near you:  the crunch in Afghanistan, the crunch in Iraq, a showdown with North Korea, a showdown with Russia, and the ever-popular Iranian nuclear program.

No doubt the Obamans will handle these problems with the same brilliance they've shown in handling, say, health care.

Better take a sedative.

August 25, 2009