I am in full agreement with Susan Rice: Statement by Ambassador Susan E. Rice, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, January 25, 2011 I am appalled by the recent personal blog written by Richard Falk, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on “the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.

When Hu Jintao came to the United States in 2006, his visit was seen in China as less-than-perfect. Hu did not receive a State Dinner or the formality and ceremony that accompany it. His speech was allowed to be interrupted by a member of the Falun Gong–a religious sect that is banned in China.

This is video of Palestinian thugs pounding on the door and according to reports vandalizing Al Jazeera‘s Ramallah bureau before going after a person with a camera. Disturbing. The Palestine Papers, if they are valid, show how unaligned the peace negotiations process has been.

Read here. This has all been such a fiasco over the years.

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Keith Olbermann and his producers made me a fairly regular commentator on politics and foreign policy on his show — borrowing me now and then from Rachel Maddow who originally brought me into the MSNBC world.

There must be a few iPhone geniuses out there. I just downloaded several hundred pictures from my iPhone to my computer — and this is one that downloaded with them. I had calls from TPM Media’s publisher Josh Marshall and from my New America Foundation colleague Daniel Levy.

This was the view at sunrise from my balcony at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs which I visited earlier this week. Thanks to the Colorado Springs World Affairs Council for the opportunity and a couple of outstanding engagements.

Former Assistant Secretary of State for Europe as well as Political-Military Affairs and former US Ambassador to Germany Richard Burt has joined the open letter I have helped organize asking President Obama to support the pending resolution at the United Nations Security Council condemning expanding Israeli settlements in Occupied Territories.

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy I found this 9 minutes of discussion on the two Gulf Wars between President George H.W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Colin Powell, Brent Scowcroft, James Baker and others fascinating. Scowcroft doesn’t say a word.

Danielle Crittenden, to whom David Frum is luckily married, is putting together a new cookbook with Washington Post editorial writer Anne Applebaum of traditional Polish cuisine.