THE MESS – AT 9:05 A.M. ET:  The Mideast, already descending into chaos, is descending further, with Saudi Arabia and, apparently, Egypt, engaged in military action in Yemen.  The deterioration is hour by hour.   Hussein Obama, meanwhile, appears obsessed with making as many concessions as possible to get a very bad nuclear deal with Iran, and disparaging our greatest ally in the region, Israel.

One wonders whether Hussein Obama is getting encouraging notes from Reverend Wright. 

Our position is terrible, thanks to the international strategist and fast-food consumer in the White House.  From The New York Times, of all places:

WASHINGTON — Already struggling to navigate the chaos engulfing much of the Middle East, the United States is now dipping its toe into another conflict.

In Yemen, the Obama administration is supporting a Saudi-led military campaign to dislodge Iranian-backed Houthi rebels despite the risks of an escalating regional fight with Iran.

But in Iraq and Syria, the United States is on the same side as Iran in the fight against the Islamic State, contributing airstrikes to an Iranian-supported offensive on Tikrit on Thursday even while jostling with Iran for position in leading the operation.

All that while the Obama administration is racing to close a deal with Iran to remove economic sanctions in exchange for restraints on its nuclear program, alarming Saudi Arabia and Israel.

The administration finds itself trying to sustain an ever-growing patchwork of strained alliances and multiple battlefields in the aftermath of the Arab Spring four years ago. The momentary moral clarity of the demands for democracy across the region has been replaced by difficult choices among enemies and unappealing allies who have rushed to fill power vacuums.

COMMENT:  This is what happens when amateurs and vindictive little men run our foreign policy.  Obama cannot point to a single foreign-policy success.  His own Tonto, John Kerry, betrayed his own comrades in Vietnam and has been richly rewarded by the political left.   I don't recall him ever being proved right on anything.  His record continues.

March 27,  2015