Dissing our friends and sucking up to our enemies

Obama's people decided to close our embassy to the Vatican.  Smooth move.  Although the Vatican wisely refrained from complaining, I'm sure this act of disrespect disheartened them.  Too bad.  The Catholic Church has been a powerful force for good, since Christ was a corporal.  The United States is a powerful force for good.  That makes us natural allies, and  dissing each other is counter productive. 
   On the suck up side, Obama's people promised to lift economic sanctions against Iran in return for little or nothing.  Iran has been a force for evil ever since the mullahs took it over in Jimmy Carter's time.  The economic sanctions have finally begun to bite hard enough to bring the Iranians to the bargaining table.  The proper action is tighten them up some more, bite them harder, until they give up their nuclear program, turn all their fissionables and centrifuges over to us, dismantle their reactors, and allow no knock inspections every where in the country.  Iranian goodwill isn't going to get us the time of day, we need to squeeze them til they crack.