Don't we WANT to get along with these other countries? I'm not sure I see this response as a bad thing. The US in past years has been unwilling to sit down and even talk with these other countries because of our differences. Isn't the saying something like "keep your friends close, but your enemies even closer?" It's called diplomacy.

What are they testing? The Pretender's loyalty?
Can anyone challenge the hijacking of the White House that occurred November 4?

Are we more concerned about dividing the country temporarily - or destroying it quickly and violently from within?

For the "I don't see this necessarily as bad" needs to do a serious history lesson on all these countries and not fall prey their media biased fronts that attempt to sell themselves as American supporters. They are very smart, because they know they can play the cords of weak and emotionally sensitive Americans to get what they want. These rulers are power hungry and will do whatever necessary to get what they want. Even the Iraq War everyone thinks is a mistake, those individuals lack their history lessons on radical Islam, when the West REALLY got involved, and how several years of "diplomacy" and no action from the Clinton Administration was prelude o the 9/11 attacks. It was always going to be when with all these events, not if. Terrorism is a world wide growing issue that Americans chose complacency and they believe Hollywood that there are no more terrorist threats, instead of the experts. These type of people take years to plan an attack. Obama's comments about empathy even on the Supreme Court add to the reason why all these devious leaders wanted him as President. You should take a look at a movie called The Third Jihad, great quick history lesson of potential attacks that are growing in American RIGHT NOW in areas that want to be empathetic.