Obama’s next war

Barack Obama's tenure as Commander-in-Chief has not exactly been characterized by success. What comes next, however, may make his record to date look like the good old days. To be sure, on his watch, an extraordinary intelligence-special forces team liquidated Osama bin Laden and drones have dispatched a number of other "high value targets" in what the President calls our "war on al Qaeda." These are morale-boosting tactical achievements, but in the great scheme of things are more like whack-a-mole than strategic victories. Much more important is the fact that Mr. Obama is in the process of losing the two wars he inherited, and making a hash-up of the one he initiated in Libya.