Repulicans/conservatives seem to forget that Barack Obama campaigned and won the Presidential election on a platform of enhanced diplomatic practice in American Foreign Policy, following 8 years of President George Bush's scotched-earth policy that wrought havoc in US Foreign Policy and laid waste to tens of thousand of precious lives of both American servicemen and Iraqi civilians while Republicans, through and through, were cheerleading the worse American policy ever. For them now to expect President Obama to pursue the same half-baked but suicidal policies is to forget why the majority of the American people voted for Obama in the first place instead of their candidate John McCain. It's not even worthy of any further effort to stress in unequivocal terms that the voters saw through McCain's policies a nightmarish reincanation of Bush's 8 years of the militarization of American Foreign Policy and the dictatorial usurpation of freedoms and liberty of the American in the name on false security. The bitter and vitriolic criticism of President Obama's trip abroad attest to icreasing hysteria among the Conservatives as they watch helplessly the demise of their political standing among the American people.The conservative loss of ground takes place in the context of heightened consolidation of the Democratic-progressive base who are sworn to defend Obama's progressive agenda with all at their disposal. Meanwhile what do the Republicans/ Consevatives do? Even as we speak they are retooling their attack machine in readiness to spew recycled smears they have used over and over to no avail. They make the same mistakes that precipitated their defeat. And they will continue to be defeated because thet