Al Qaeda is over-running Iraq, a country Bush left is reasonable good shape. The war in Afghanistan is already lost and Obama's Russian reset policy may be more of a joke to the Russians than to some of us in this country.

The chill in relations between the US and Russia grew still frostier yesterday as President Vladimir Putin's foreign minister told the White House to start behaving like "grown-ups".   Mr Obama reacted furiously this week to Russia's approval of temporary asylum for Mr Snowden, a National Security Agency contractor who gave secret documents to the media.

Accusing Moscow of a "slip back into Cold War thinking", the president pulled out of a planned bilateral meeting with Mr Putin in Moscow before the G20 summit in St Petersburg next month.

Notes:   Obama is just frustrated,  waking up one morning only to discover that diplomatic relations simply do not “take care of themselves.” And sending a toy button to the Russian as an indication of the seriousness of America’s “reset” intention,  is another reason the Russian might be thinking that we need to start acting like grown-up. The pictures shows the toy button with Russian wording.  Originally,  the Russian word for "reset" was misspelled by Obama's crack State Department team.  The translation of our version of Russian was "charge or over-charge."  

This is what we have for a diplomatic team,  ladies  and gentlemen.  Talk about something being "phony,"  you are looking at it.