In his 1936 song "I've Got You under My Skin," in a complicated melody with repeated notes, Cole Porter advised, "Use your mentality; wake up to reality."  In view of a number of recent international events, that advice and a repeated wake-up call for President Barack Obama are long overdue. New alarm bells for a coherent U.S. foreign policy have come from a number of these event, from the ungracious omission by the White House of words of French President François Hollande to the apparent underplaying of the threat of home-grown Islamist terrorists to the increasing belligerence of Iran. On March 31, 2016, at a meeting in Washington, D.C. with Obama, President Hollande called for cooperation between the U.S. and France on the crucial issue of what Obama has called "violent extremism."  Hollande uses more correct terminology.  He remarked, "But we are also well aware that the roots of terrorism, Islamist terrorism...(Read Full Article)