The US should send Baker and Carter to coerce Israel but sit idly by while African civilians are slaughtered and jihadists run rampant? She'll fit right in:

ABC News has learned that Dr. Susan Rice has emerged as the leading candidate to be President-elect Obama's nominee as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations... Dr. Rice, a member of President Bill Clinton's National Security Council and a former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, was involved in President-elect Obama's campaign as a senior foreign policy adviser.

From John Bolton - who merely gave the UN a taste of its own irony - to Susan Rice in 2 and a half years. And all it took was the Democratic Congress who bounced him out and the Democratic President who'll install her. At least the US will have one last opportunity to object to the Nazi-level anti-Semitism of Durban II - a conference that the EU, by the by, is now helping to pay for. I doubt that Bush's people will have to block any more objectively pro-terrorist binding UN resolutions though - anti-Israel partisans will probably just wait a few months on those.

But at least we can count on our good will being reciprocated:

And the majority of those taking Canada's generous aid and siding with Iran are...wait for it....Islamic....More than half the countries receiving long-term overseas aid from Canada are among the bloc rebuffing a major, Canadian-led human rights campaign at the United Nations, analysis shows. Thirteen "development partners" of the Canadian International Development Agency - Ottawa’s aid arm - opposed Canada’s position in a key opening vote of this year’s bid to highlight Iran’s human rights abuses.

The worst part: this is going to wreck havoc on the "rice diplomacy" site searches that I use to find old posts. Eh - that's what I get for neglecting the honorific "Secretary Rice" that I might've used for exclusion. Yet another bitter lesson about the necessity of decorous respect for my betters.

References:
* Barack Obama and Israel [Lasky / American Thinker]
* Obama and His Advisors Not Ready for Prime Time [Larry Johnson]
* Soft Rice [Power Line]
* Rice Likely to UN for Obama (Susan, Not Condi) [Tapper / Political Punch]
* Nuts and Bolton [Steyn / Spectator]
* Watchdog groups brace for 'Durban 2' [JPost]
* The EU caves on Durban II [Israpundit]
* US still blocks UNSC vote on Gaza [JPost]
* UN: Over Half the Countries Receiving Major Aid From Canada Voted With Iran to Throw out Canadian-led Censure of the Mullahs Human Rights Abuses.... [Zippers]

Previously:
* Obama Defenders: What Brzezinski Guy? (Plus: That's Not Even Their Worst Argument)
* Arab Foreign Policy Experts: Obama's "Islamic Family Roots" Will Make The Muslim World Like Us (Plus: Obama State Dept Going Pretty Much How You'd Expect)
* 70 Percent Of American Jews Ready To Say "We Didn't Know" When Obama Detonates US-Israel Alliance (Plus: They Most Definitely Know)