Okay, this is getting a little silly.  How many more times will U.S. government officials make "surprise" visits to the Middle East and what exactly do they hope to accomplish?  Seriously, how constructive are diplomatic missions that continuously show up unannounced?  How much thought or preparation do you think goes into the subsequent meetings with officials in Beirut or Baghdad or anywhere?  Right, probably not a lot because their only real purposes are as PR stunts to suggest we know what to do when we really don't have a clue.  And finally, ask yourself how weak our "muscular" foreign policy and global war on terror must look when the President and his many cabinet officers continuously feel the need to basically sneak into places like Iraq, Afghanistan or now Lebanon unannounced?  I guess that strut only goes so far?