Obama's critics are outraged about his friendly greeting to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. I think some of these folks think their job in life is to get outraged about absolutely everything the man does. It's like if Obama eats a grilled cheese sandwich, they're off in meetings somewhere, trying to figure out how to be outraged about grilled cheese sandwiches. Anyway, Fred Kaplan has a good piece about how Obama is trying something we haven't seen in a long time with regard to international diplomacy. It's called international diplomacy.