Serious question for all who believe Obama's administration is embarrassing the US: how do you believe any or all of these situations mentioned in the article should be handled? (China in the Pacific, diplomatic snubs, Syria)

How should the president respond when a red carpet is not rolled out? Do we expel their consul general? Do we refuse to shake hands at the G20 summit? How can you respond to the lack of a rolling staircase without seeming like a child throwing a tantrum?

How should the president respond to Russia and China's muscle-flexing. Should we deploy US marines to the Spratleys or Sevastopol? Run assassination programs similar to Mossad? Nearly every military intervention and coup we've participated in since World War 2 has put us further in debt and turned out to be a poor decision longterm. We've been at war for the last 15 years and (my opinion) the world looks worse because of it.

So for the situations listed in the article what would your ideal president do?