Obama’s awakening: ‘What Would Bush Do?’

The New York Times this morning describes President Barack Obama’s speech before the United Nations as “the once-reluctant warrior now apparently resolved to waging a twilight struggle against Islamic extremism.”

That’s a nice way to put it.

Another way is to say that for five years President Obama drank his own bathwater in regards to the “War on Terror” and now, for the good of America, he’s forced to ask his military advisers for a new/old strategy — “What Would Bush Do?”

He’s finally come around to understanding that the world — and the United States in particular — is not going to magically get along with Islamic extremists. The president now calls them a “network of death.”

Thanks for smelling the coffee, Mr. President. The shame of it is that when President Obama took the reins from President Bush, we had a strong military position in Iraq and Afghanistan. We had ‘em pinned down.

Obama let them up and they mobilized in Syria and other countries. Now he’s going to have to pin them down again and, sadly, hand the reins of this conflict over to the next president. In the meanwhile, we are all less safe because of the president’s failure to act decisively on this world front.

It’s a pattern with this president. He’s been a failure on the economy, a failure on domestic issues and a failure on foreign affairs.

There’s really no other way to see it.