He isn’t particularly known for it, but Charles Krauthammer does biting sarcasm pretty well: Tripe a la Mode.

It is not John Kerry’s fault that he is endorsed by a Frenchman. (Or by Kim Jong Il of North Korea, whose media have been running some of Kerry’s speeches verbatim!) But Kerry has made the major — indeed, only discernible — theme of his foreign policy “rejoining the community of nations” and being liked abroad once again.

Which is why he does not just court foreign support, he boasts about it. “I’ve met foreign leaders, who can’t go out and say this publicly,” he told a Hollywood, Fla., fund-raiser, “but boy they look at you and say, ‘You gotta win this one, you gotta beat this guy.’”

For the world. For France.