Stumbled upon this article recently. Long article, but worth the read.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/world/obamas-leadership-in-war-on-al-qaeda.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
Excerpt I found troubling:
http://thequad.blogs...lignment-chaos/
An excellent NY Times article from a few months back. I couldn't find where this was posted on HB before. (Did I already post this?) So here it is.