Let's keep our nose and troops out of the Ukrainian mess.

Saber rattling. That is what they call it when a despot moves his troops around to scare neighboring countries and states into believing he means business on such and such an issue.  It also is usually an empty gesture.

Putin his rattling his sabers and so, too, is Obama.

Everyone knows the last thing America wants right now is another armed conflict.  Our economy couldn't stand it nor could our national desire for more blood on our hands.  In fact, a recent poll showed that more Americans favored pulling our troops out of danger zones than advancing the numbers.

War is not a good policy; especially for a country who has no vested interest in the outcome of that conflict.  And the Crimea is of no concern to Joe and Ester in Kansas. They are much more concerned about getting this season's planting in ground and avoiding another drought.

So we strut around voicing our displeasure about the Russians moving troops to protect a southern state of some country that has a lot of Russians living there. The last thing Putin wants is an armed conflict in the Ukraine. He is smart enough to know he can’t win in the long run. He, like us, can remember Afghanistan. He might overpower the locals, but soon they would rot the infrastructure of society from within and the Russians would have an even bigger mess on their hands.

So, maybe this time it is best that the U.S. keep out of this.  Shut up in fact.  Say nothing. go about our business of drawing down the troops abroad and working on finding them jobs back here at home.

In fact that would be a good foreign policy for us.  Let us first look at home to make it stronger.  Let the world care for its own.  Sorry. We're busy.  We've got problems of our own and we plan to fix them first.