-- In a laughable "up yours" to the Chinese -- our bankers -- the Obama Administration sold $7 billion of military hardware to Taiwan. China responded by canceling talks with the US on issues of strategic security, arms control, and nuclear non-proliferation. And now the Dalai Lama will have an honored seat at the White House.
-- Asked Congress to increase funding for the American nuclear arsenal to the tune of $5 billion. This after the LA Times reported over Christmas that the Pentagon pushed back hard against Obama's idea of a nuclear freeze. Pushed back hard? Blowing on the guy would do it.
-- 123 dead civilians in Pakistan, courtesy of the President's drone program: the perfect embodiment of the Gang of Obama-ism: dead bodies, clean hands.
-- In a jaw-dropping announcement (and that's saying a lot for this tap-dancer), the Administration leaked news of the deployment of a Ronnie Raygun-type MISSILE SHIELD to protect the oil shieks of Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Bahrain. (They'll slip in Saudi Arabia when no one's looking.)
-- New draconian sanctions on Iran, aimed chiefly at strangling Iranian access to gasoline, meaning the average Iranian will suffer lots, and the big bad Ayatollahs not at all.
-- Regarding Saudi Arabia, announced "a speed-up of arms sales and rapid upgrading of defenses for oil terminals and other key infrastructure in a bid to thwart future military attacks by Iran," a nation which hasn't attacked another country in over 400 years.
-- US Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair said yesterday that federal agencies have a policy of assassinating Americans overseas as required by the “war on terror.” In testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, Blair said the assassinations would be justified if US citizens were “taking action that threatens Americans.” So I vote for Dennis Blair to be the next one murdered.
And this was the week Uncle O told us there would be no money for nothin' domestic ever again.
