If you need any more proof that the 1600 Crew will leave us economically desolated domestically, politically isolated internationally and in a permanent state of victimhood just check out some of the things that have been shooting out of some of the "officials". Let's take Rummy (no, please you can keep him)...

Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary, threatened to pull Nato's headquarters out of Brussels yesterday unless Belgium revoked a legislation giving its courts the power to prosecute foreigners for alleged war crimes committed anywhere in the world.

Mr Rumsfeld, who was in Brussels for a Nato summit, said Washington had already decided to block funding for Nato's new buildings to protest against the harassment of Americans by Left-wing Belgian lawyers trying to score political points.

Not just lawyers, but Left-Wing Belgian lawyers. I guess if those crazy Belgians and their plaintiffs had retained co-counsel from Baker Botts, well RummyCo would be heaping cash and praise on their system. Then there's this little jewel:

Nato was reduced to a mere spectator in the Afghan campaign, while Pentagon hardliners ruffled feathers by working with a handful of close partners outside the alliance. But officials say the Americans are now startled by their own isolation. Washington wants Nato to take over in Afghanistan and play a key role in Iraq.

Startled by their own isolation. I think that's a phrase I never thought I would hear applied to my country...how are we coming to that point? So much for International Leadership...you can't lead when you're an army of one.