Wonderboy- The Innocent Abroad

Karl Rove expressed it so well on Bill O'Reilly's program last night. The insightful conservative political analyst and brilliant Bush campaign manager noted that European leaders always love a weak, ineffectual US President.

Their worst nightmare is a US leader capable of and determined to unilaterally pursue America's interests.

Instead, observed Rove, the Europeans stonewalled our First Rookie on sending troops to Afghanistan and joining America in over-spending on economic stimulus.

When he wasn't getting slow-rolled by his G-2o colleagues, Wonderboy was busy apologizing for America's imagined- by him- past sins, and for almost anything his predecessor did.

The depth and breadth of this president's stupidity and bad judgement are staggering. As Rove asked, what must European leaders think of a US President who, rather than focus on his own agenda, spends most of his time reminding everyone he won the election, and that he disagrees with his predecessor's largely-successful policies?

Basically, we witnessed the American Weakness tour by the First Rookie. He coupled this with an embarrassing olive branch to the globe's worst terrorist sponsors, e.g., North Korea, by announcing a willingness to cut our nuclear arsenal deeply. One British observer commented that our president has learned nothing from the nearly-fatal inter-war disarmament of the 1920s and '30s by America, Britain and France. Only those countries interested in disarming did so. Japan and Germany did not.

Gee, do you think that's a valid example for today? Or do we expect China, Russia and North Korea to rush to the negotiating table with their own offers to disarm?

We'd better hope that Congress still has some latent, middle-of-the-road, non-partisan sense of self-preservation and defeats any of this idiot's arms control treaties.