It's too late to call a grandmaster to help when you are one move from checkmate

I find it silly when some here pose the questions as to what would "you" do about the Ukraine situation when the match is just about over and Putin is ready to take control of the country.

Foreign policy is not just about one event, one month or even several months. It's a game that never stops. What you do now and how you take care of business and conduct yourself on the world stage matters each and every day.

When you begin your term in office by apologizing for American actions of your predecessor(s), and tell the world about how you're going to be all things to all peoples without sticking up for your peoples first then you are off to a bad start.

Sure you try to make nice, you try to cozy up to a Putin, you try and smooze Arab leaders, and the Europeans; however, a smooth talker wins elections, but it doesn't win on the world stage where nice guys finish dead last.

And when you have an ambassador murdered and a full year later people see you haven't done a damn thing about taking care of his killers they know you are indeed a paper tiger no matter how many threats you make or red lines you draw.

Look at how Obama has handled things in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, Israel, Venezuela, Libya, Egypt, and not with Russia. It's one big screw up after another. The only good I see of all this is hopefully people will remember that Hillary Clinton was the Secretary of State when all of this crap happened.

And no I haven't forgotten Obama got Bin Laden, but don't be misled here, anyone that plays chess knows you always tale a pawn or a knight or some other relatively insignificant piece which does little or nothing to stop your opponent. OBL was brought to justice and that was a great day; however, remember foreign policy is not about a day or a short period of time. Reality is the OBL was hardly a blip on the grand stage.

Reality is that Romney and others saw all of this coming. Anyone watching the chess board could see we were ripe for the taking, and we were being exposed. Reality is that we can't do much of anything to stop the Russian Bear. Maybe Obama will follow Jimmy Carter and not go to the Olympics in protest.... oh wait we just went so that's out.

So the next time someone challenges you as to what you would do to prevent the Ukrainian take over, you need to tell them I would have not given all those pretty speeches 5+ years ago. Five years of playing nice and five years of kissing up to the bad guys has encouraged our opponents and they are on the prowl.

Our next president is going to have a huge mess to contend with while we downsize our military.