Walter Russell Mead writing May 25 in the american Interest: His (Obama) record of grotesque, humilting and total diplomatic failure in his dealings with Prime Minster Netanyahu has few parallels in American history. Three times has has gone up against Netanyahu and three times he has ingloriously failed. This last defeat Netanyahu deadly, devasting speech to Congress in which he eviscerated President Obama's foreign policy to prolonged and repeated standing oviations by members of both parties may have been the single most stunning and effective rebuke to an american President a foreign leader has ever delivered.

Netanyahu beat Obama like a red headed stepchild; he played him like a fiddle;he pounded him like a big brass drum. The Prime Minister of Irasel danced rings around his arrogant, professorial opponent. It was like watching the Harlem Globerotters go up against the junior squad from Miss Porter's School; like watch Harvard play Texas A&M; like watching Bambi meet Godzilla or Bill clinton run against Bob Dole Pronted WSJ 5/27).

Russia's Putin has got to be thinking how lucky he is. Americans have got to be thinking how did we miss these gapping flaws?