Trying to figure out the plot

We can be fairly certain that the administration is not stupid enough to have lost track of the current leaders of foreign countries. I mean, everyone knows that Sarkozy is top dog in France, and Medvedev in Russia, right? So what the hell are they up to?

Last week, LeFigaro, a French publication, reported on a letter Obama wrote to Chirac (as translated by translate.google.com):

The U.S. President has just sent a letter "very sympathetic" to Jacques Chirac, in the words of the latter. "I am confident that we can over the next four years working together in a spirit of peace and friendship to build a safer world," writes the successor to George W. Bush's predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy. In mentioning the word "peace," Obama makes implicit tribute to the action of the former French president who opposed the war in Iraq. A U.S. intervention against which the future U.S. president had opposed as a senator, in a vote in Congress.

Obama and Chirac will be working together over the next four years? Bet that was news to Chirac! Why Chirac, and not Sarkozy? Is it not disrespectful, if not downright deceptive, to propose working with the former leader of the country? How would we react if a new president in France proposed working with George W. Bush, rather than Obama? Ok, bad example...we'd be elated. But the circumstances are a bit different...and I'm sure Obama and his worshippers would be gravely insulted.

Now Reuters is reporting that Obama bin Biden met secretly with Mikhail Gorbachev:

U.S. President Barack Obama has held talks with Mikhail Gorbachev, a spokesman for the former Soviet leader said on Monday, in the latest sign of Washington's efforts to "press the reset button" on ties with Russia.

Spokesman Konstantin Petrenko said Gorbachev met Obama and Vice President Joe Biden -- who coined the 'reset' phrase last month -- in Washington last Friday. He did not give any details of the discussion.

Coming on the heels of the Gordon Brown snub, and the ridiculous overtures to Iran, I find this deeply disturbing.

I don't think I'm alone in my lack of trust in these people. Poland has been left hanging, wondering if we are still going to support them:

Poland said on Sunday it hoped the new U.S. administration would not abandon plans to station a missile defence system on its territory.

President Barack Obama's administration is reviewing U.S. security policy, including the missile shield plan. This has prompted speculation he might shelve a project that has angered Moscow, with which Washington wants to mend ties.

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said Poland had taken "something of a political risk" in signing an agreement with the Bush administration to host the system.

"When we started discussing this with the United States, the U.S. assured us they would persuade the Russians that it was purely defensive and it would be a non-controversial decision," he told the annual Brussels Forum conference.

"We signed with the old administration; we patiently wait for the new administration, and we hope we don't regret our trust in the United States," he said, adding that Russia had continued to threaten to deploy missiles near Poland if the shield were deployed.

To say that they took "something of a political risk" in supporting this plan is an enormous understatement. Poland and the Czech Republic have put their heads on the chopping block by going along with us on this, but, two months into the Golden Era of Obama, they apparently have received no guidance from Dear Leader as to his planned course.

Our new foreign policy seems to be to offend our allies, embrace our enemies, evidence complete impotence to the radically dangerous, and light fuses on the powder keg nations that are already struggling to maintain control (e.g. Pakistan). I simply cannot believe that all of these acts, in combination, are just coincidental stupid mistakes. Just as I believe that A.I.G. was an intentional firestorm, ignited to distract from the latest giant leap toward socialism, I think there is a more sinister reason for all of this bad diplomacy. I just wish I could figure out what it is.