I thought the litmus test for successful international policy was French and German approval. Certainly thats what the dems and the lapdog media told us for years. We were then told that Bush had alienated those nations, though in the end they both shifted rightward under his terms and he had friends in both Merkel and Sarkozy. Obama has a chilly relationship with both those leaders and with fellow lefty Gordon Brown of Britain to boot. And he had pre-conditions to meet with Netanyahu. And the Poles now are stirred up and angry with us because he sold them out to the Russians in a serious diplomatic blunder which yielded no benefits whatsoever.
What ally of the US has he not ticked off?
But I think it is all of a piece. Obama has decided where his allies lie and they are not over here... look to the middle east and communist states. His foreign policy (such as it is) speaks volumes.
On the other hand with all the anti-American rhetoric that emanates form Europe I was surprised that the President Bush was so warm towards us. But he was a gracious individual and that is crystal clear now that Obama’s ego is in the frame.