Okay, that is scary! One key message it sends is that "we will stand right behind our allies - out of the line of fire"! It is a very scary message to the rest of us who are watching the US. It also says "When the going gets tough, the tough get going... back to DC". Not the type of message that reassures the rest of the world about your intentions.

This is, however, a fairly consistent theme for the past 30 years or so, where the people who work for State and various and sundry other countries' Foreign Affairs departments, appear to value themselves more than the countries they are ostensibly serving and representing. It says a lot about how the defence of the country has been abrogated by the self-proclaimed elites of the country.