. . . this post from Gregory Djerejian about our South West Asian foreign policy and the shipwreck we're heading into. Money quote:

the Secretary of State should not be wasting time her time on opening an Iranian art exhibition, or at pressers regarding something called the "Women's Empowerment Network" for "Peace and Security in the Middle East", but instead be traveling to Delhi, Islamabad, Ramallah, Tel Aviv, Beirut, and, yes, Damascus--trying to put out various fires and urgently remedy some of the greatest foreign policy blunders in American history since the inception of the Republic. It's called statecraft, and previous Secretaries of State have deigned to do it. It's hard work, all right, and sometimes you even have to meet with people you don't like much, but by golly, it's a big, mean world out there.

I miss the adults.

By the way, this post by Bill Arkin is worth a read as well. Disturbingly ambiguous.