"Big Mouth Diplomacy"

Whatever happened to, "Speak softly and carry a big stick?" Around a hundred years ago then President Theodore Roosevelt made this phrase his foreign policy. Now "Big Stick Diplomacy" has been replaced by what I choose to call "Big Mouth Diplomacy." If any sovereign nation belches the Bush administration grabs a microphone and spouts off.

Our "Fearless Leader" reminds me of the school-yard bully's name calling and blustering to those gathered around. How can the President expect the leaders of a targeted country to give an ear when he's pissed them off. It's fine to speak one's mind if one indeed has a mind to speak. In his case that surely is in doubt. If I said everything out loud that I thought privately at times, there wouldn't be a soul in the country speaking to me ever. This country has fallen in disrepute in the eyes of the world because of George W. Bush and his near-sighted foreign policy (if it can really known as such). The respect we had as a country when Bush took Office has evaporated. We as a people are embarrassed by him at every turn. Being the "good old boy from Texas" wore thin pretty darn fast. His Dan Quayle-like "mis-speaks" was funny for awhile until we sadly became aware that they happened all too often and at inopportune times. Google his quotes. It's not funny! A man whose wayward mouth and misuse of American English ought not be allowed to speak publicly about America's concerns on the world stage. George all I have to say to you is, "Shut the hell up - shut your spokespersons the hell up - allow the State Department and the CIA to quietly go about the business of getting whatever needs to be done....done.

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What was the nation of Georgia thinking? Take on Russia's military might? No David and Goliath here. A lesson is to be learned. Want your ass kicked? Challenge an army who is gnawing at its sabers desperately needing to prove that it is still viable as the defender of a once great power.