U.S. Foreign Influence

The United States government is currently unable to evacuate non-essential diplomats from violence-plagued Libya. Curiously, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley is unable to say why.

It seems that being American doesn't mean what it used to.

While Washington apparently naps, drug dealers are killing U.S. citizens and agents in Mexico, Somalian pirates are killing Americans sailing in the Indian Ocean, and now diplomats can't even be rescued from a bloody, strife-filled foreign country.

And all that happened just this week. Boy, the U.S. sorely needs leadership.

Of course, our adversaries might contend that the Obama administration is being most accommodating.