And in today’s Cover Story, two particular points of emphasis which explain the current death-spiral of American foreign policy; first, courtesy of The Daily Caller…

Forget Ukraine: Gay rights are Obama’s foreign policy priority

The Russian military takeover of the Crimea shows that national power doesn’t come from the barrel of a gun, but from the “capacity to inspire,” according to President Barack Obama’s national security advisor. And that power of inspiration must be used by American diplomats “to decry laws that would lock people up because of who they love and to find new ways to protect vulnerable members of the [worldwide] LGBT community,” National Security Adviser Susan Rice told an assembly of U.S. diplomats on Tuesday.

“Events in Ukraine bear out a fundamental truth about U.S. leadership in the 21st century,” she announced. “Real power is not the ability to intimidate and coerce, but rather the capacity to inspire people through the example of our values and the ability to rally other nations to meet shared challenges,” she declared at the Department of State’s Global Chiefs of Mission Conference.

Next, FOX News informs us…

Kerry makes climate change a ‘top-tier diplomatic priority’

Secretary of State John Kerry, deeming climate change a “top-tier diplomatic priority,” has decided to make the controversial topic the subject of his first policy initiative and is instructing U.S. emissaries worldwide to push the agenda.

“Protecting our environment and meeting the challenge of global climate change is a critical mission for me as our country’s top diplomat,” Kerry wrote in his Policy Guidance, which was released Friday and marked his first since becoming secretary in February 2013. “It’s also a critical mission for all of you: our brave men and women on the front lines of direct diplomacy,” he said.

Which is why these men, having effectively annexed Crimea…

…are preparing to carve up the rest of Ukraine, the desperate despot Hillary once called a “reformer”…

…continues to slaughter thousands, and these madmen…

…are on the brink of producing a nuclear weapon and destabilizing the entire Middle East. Then again, what should one expect from an American President who would use the occasion of addressing the United Nations as a platform for espousing his personal passions:

When it comes to The Obamao and his plans for America…

…the situation in Ukraine is all…

…in a day’s work!