What Fresh Hell Is This? "No F-16s for You!"

It's like Seinfeld in a nightmare universe.  I've been banging on repeatedly about selling those F-16s to Taiwan and the maddening reluctance of the current US government to do anything, and now Dignified Rant has the link to the latest example of rage-inducing foreign policy.  "Smart diplomacy" in the age of HopeChange means selling out an Asian democracy of 23 million in order to suck up to Beijing.  I am utterly disgusted.  As I've said before, how many democracies do you think there are in Asia?  Democracies that look to the US for support?  Hey, didn't I just post on another example of Beijing's strong-arm tactics?  on Japan's recognition of China's pushing of their sphere of influence in Asia?  

The news piece quotes an official from Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense:

"We are so disappointed in the United States."

So are the rest of us.  This administration's foreign policy sucks like a supermassive black hole.  *headdesk*

UPDATE: Not fresh hell after all?