You May Own Us, But Don't Leer

Did anybody else see this image from President Obama's arrival ceremony in Beijing last week?  Check out the guy over Hu Jintao's shoulder: is it me or is he making a face at the President of the United States?

China may well own most of our foreign debt.  The President may be new on the world stage.  But neither of those gives that Chinese serviceman the right to leer--really, to mock--the President of the Untied States.  I most sincerely doubt you could ever find a similar photo of a U.S. serviceman in a receiving line for President Hu doing the same thing.  I don't care what the excuse is, because there's really no excuse for this shoddy treatment of our President.