The President can expect many more such pyrrhic victories now that his faithful lieutenant, John Bolton, has been forced to leave the Turtle Bay portfolio to thetender mercies of lowest-common-denominator-minded State Department diplomats like Under Secretary Nick Burns.
Like his feckless predecessor, Mr. Obama deserves thelowest grade for continuing to appease political-militant Islam, as evidenced by thetender care and deep respect he bestowed on bin Laden during the burial at sea.