Last week, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton told an interviewer that under her Presidency, the United States would "obliterate" Iran if that country were to "foolishly consider" a nuclear attack on Israel. Cynematic from Momocrats takes us to the videotape:

Unlike domestic policy, the American public is usually willing to leave foreign affairs to the "experts" unless things are seriously off course. According to polling done by Public Agenda, the contemporary anxiety indicator stands at 136 on a scale where 150 indicates a collapse of confidence in the government's foreign policy. In general, over the past two years, Americans have less and less confidence that our present strategies will enhance US security.