US sends geriatric hippie, James Taylor, to Paris in effort to patch things up with France

There are days when the news coming out of the Obama administration is so ridiculous, so utterly laughable, that all I can do is shake my head and laugh. This is one of those days because, as bad as the President's handling of foreign affairs has been, he just managed to jump a shark so massive that it would make Fonzie quiver in fear.

Last week, as you know, the Obama administration handed itself a PR nightmare by opting out of the historic demonstrations that occurred in Paris. While we sent our ambassador, everyone - on both ends of the political spectrum - wondered what in the world was going on. Why didn't we send a more important member of our government? Why didn't we send someone of higher stature? Couldn't we find anyone more relevant?

If you harbored those concerns, you can relax - we found someone.

Today, The United States sent geriatric hippie James Taylor to France. There, in a show of solidarity, he stood with John Kerry and inflicted the song "You've Got a Friend" upon the French people. This is supposed to show the world that the United States understands the trauma France has endured. We, dare I say it, 'feel your pain.'

Here's the utterly insipid clip. Watch it and weep - not because the sappy song is so sad - but because it represents the absolute nadir of our foreign policy:

I'll give you a moment to compose yourself, because right now you're either laughing or crying.

Let's get this straight: The Obama administration decided to downlplay the existence of radical Islam in the world, is loathe identify the sources of extremism, and has done everything in its power to poo-poo emerging global threats like ISIS until they become to big to ignore. When this kind of head-in-the-sand strategy achieves its inevitable outcome - they refuse to participate in the aftermath.

Then they send a washed-up, all-but-irrelevant, performer as a way to apologize.

Frankly, I'd suggest that foisting the saccharine music of James Taylor upon a foreign nation qualifies as an act of terrorism in and of itself but, if they were going to go with a leftover entertainer from another era, they could have done better...

Seriously, the French love Jerry Lewis. Couldn't someone scare up a copy of "The Day the Clown Cried?" They would really have appreciated that.

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