Barack Obama has settled on his election game plan: Mock your opponents as unworthy at every turn.
Now that the media has firmly established the messiah's "cred" as a magnificently bold, brave, and decisive Commander in Chief, he feels free to move back into domestic politics. It is strange indeed. No sooner has he used the Military for his own opportunistic resume enhancement than he has placed the War on Terror [aka "Overseas Contingency Operations" for true believers] on the far rear boiler plate.