The Obama Doctrine

Via Breitbart.com: 

Victims of the Nov. 2009 Ft. Hood shooting are being denied benefits commensurate with combat injuries because the Obama administration refuses to label the attack an act of terrorism.

Instead, the shooting Maj. Nidal Hasan carried out after screaming "Allahu Akbar" is still being labeled "workplace violence." 

 

Even Obama Can't Be This Weak/Incompetent. Can He?

Pat Dollard:

The U.S. State Department is currently in negotiations with the Egyptian government for the transfer of custody of Omar Abdel-Rahman, also known as “the Blind Sheikh,” for humanitarian and health reasons, a source close to the the Obama administration told TheBlaze . . . . The Blind Sheikh is serving a life sentence in American prison for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. His release has been called one of the top priorities of the new Islamist administration in Egypt.

Perspective: Obama Got Osama, But Lost The Middle East

So observes Professor Jacobson:

We know that bin Laden was located as the result of years of work by intelligence agencies which in substantial part predated Obama. And as we now know, Obama laid the groundwork to blame the military if the raid went wrong.

But put all that aside. Obama got Osama. Fair enough.

But the killing of one person has been against the backdrop of a complete disaster for the United States throughout the Middle East and Central Asia.

North Africa is or is on the way to domination by radical Islamists. We pushed Mubarak out without any transition, and the Muslim Brotherhood and even more extreme Islamists are nearing control. The same is true in Libya and Tunisia.

In Afghanistan, the Taliban are resurgent, waiting out Obama’s timeline for withdrawal. In Iraq, the Iranians have extended their influence and the nation again is dividing along sectarian lines, with the unifying factor (except among the Kurds) being hostility to the U.S.

In Syria, where for once we could have dealt a crushing blow to Iranian influence, we have helped Bashar Assad hang onto power to the extent that both sides hate us.

Our one true ally in the region, Israel, is in its most precarious position in decades, surrounded by massive Iranian-backed missile bases in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria.

There is almost nowhere in the Middle East that the United State is better off than it was four years ago.

Click through to read the whole thing.  Personally, I don't see anywhere that the good professor misstates or even overstates the situation.  Obama's record abroad is as much a disaster as his record at home.  Any good will has dissipated. But he did get Osama.   

Fast and Furious

Powerline points us to an excellent column by Michael Hayden, the retired Air Force General and former director of both the NSA and CIA.  In his column, Hayden brings illustrates the irony of Holder's claim that "he has been subjected to a heavily politicized process over Fast and Furious," when Holder himself previously led a heavily politicized witch hunt against the CIA and its officers for its renditions, detentions, and interrogations of terrorists.