The whole world smells weakness - today's edition

The squirmy, gloomy post-private-talk photo op of Vladimir Putin and the MEC at the G20 summit is brimming with body language and facial expressions that tell the story of diminished American leadership on the world stage.

I've argued for three years that the MEC has put himself in the position of being Putin's bitch, going back to the double-crossing of Poland and the Czech Republic on the previously-agreed-to missile defense system.  My view was reconfirmed with the hot-mike conversation between the MEC and Medvedev about "waiting for greater flexibility."

Now, the Lightworker-in-chief is forced to publicly sulk after his spanking over differences in Syria policy.  This is embarrassing.  We want our country back.