"Obama's woes"

More madness and self-absorbed idiocy from the Associated Press:

Analysis: Obama's woes keep piling up around globe

WASHINGTON – The woes keep piling up for President Barack Obama.

While it is unfair to blame him for all the world's problems (although some folks try) there is no question he is having trouble finding the right answers.

Thanks AP for clarifying that it would be "unfair" to blame him for "all the world's problems," the "analyst,"then goes on to cite the inherited geo-political situations the Obama administration faces in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and with the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

Those are all long, intractable problems the administration is dealing with -- and pretty forcefully, too (as opposed to the previous president, who placed Karzai on a pedestal, stuck with Musharreff well past the "sell-by date," and kicked the settlements issue far on down the "road map").

The only people for whom these fraught issues are actual "woes" are the Afghans, Pakistanis, Palestinians, and Israelis living in those benighted places.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Barry Schweid has covered diplomacy for The Associated Press since 1973.

Odd, then, that Barry seems unaware that these problems go back as far as his early days with the AP.