Across the Pond - U.S. Embassies Attacked in Cairo and Benghazi

Egyptian protestors storm US Embassy. (Photo credit Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters)

Yesterday our Embassies were subjects of attack;

Stormed the walls and tore Old Glory down - hung flags of black.

Cairo and Benghazi...  Our Ambassador is dead.

Libyans blew up his car as he and others fled.

What would be the cause for these two "allies" fighting us?

What's behind the outrage?  What's the reason for the fuss?

Seems that there's some movie that nobody's even seen,

And Muhammad comes off looking bad from what I glean.

Guy who made the movie is American and so

That appeared to be enough for angry mobs to grow.

I would say that's quite enough of this and screw them all.

Leave us out of it and kill each other.  Have a ball.

Islam needs a Reformation and it needs it bad -

Speaking from experience about the one we had.

But, until they drag themselves from ignorance and fear,

I think the United States had better just steer clear.

Across the Pond - China

Secretary of State Clinton (Photo credit: Associated Press)

 

Secretary Clinton is in China for the week

And things could get tricky when the two sides meet to speak.

Chinese have their problems; situation's pretty tense

After a blind lawyer they'd detained climbed out his fence.

No one's saying where he is but China thinks that we

Have him hiding, right now, in the U.S. Embassy.

When you add the scandal that's surrounding Xilai Bo

(Murder allegations, wire tapping) chances grow

Ever slimmer we will get concessions from them now

As they deal with changes more profound than those since Mao.

Balances of power at the top are shifting fast.

Maybe the reformers are ascending there, at last?

Either way, I'm betting that the Syrians are screwed.

(Sorry for the language there; I'm usually not rude

But, I'm so disgusted with the "peace plan" now in place.)

Think the Russian/Chinese stance about it's a disgrace.