The Obama Administration seems to believe that the best way to make new friends internationally is to offend old reliable ones. Breaking our missile defense agreement with Poland and the Czech Republic, who have produced freedom lovers like Lech Walesa, John Paul II, and Vaclev Havel, in order to appease freedom restrictors Vladimir Putin and Dimtry Medvedev in Russia was just a start for the Obama Administration.

But the Obama Administration has saved some of its best diplomacy work for our closest partner in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United Kingdom. Symbolically significant-especially for those attune to the historical realities of the Gathering Storm-within a few days of taking over, the Obama White House removed a bust of Winston Churchill, a loaned gift from Britain to the United States as a display of solidarity with the U.S. after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and sent it packing back to the British Embassy. Nile Gardiner in the Telegraph goes on to describe nine other insults to Britain during the short tenure of the Obama Administration.

Secretary Clinton's opening the door to the "re-litigation" of the status of the Falklands in her meeting with the left leaning beleaguered President of Argentina this past week was also an impressive diplomatic slap in the face, a move usually reserved for one's foes rather than friends. This is probably not the change that the British people believed in.

Meanwhile you may want to check out the latest reporting on Venezuela's links to terror groups and Hugo Chavez's advice to Spain to keep a "closer eye on its court system", as he does so well in Venezuela