The Long War Is Not Over

Writing in The Weekly Standard, authors Hayes and Joscelyn summarize the dreary details of Barack Obama's foreign policy failures. As COTTonLINE readers know, they are many and depressing. I would share with you their conclusion at the end of a long article:

Al Qaeda is not decimated. ISIS is not jayvee. Iran is not our friend. Terrorists sent by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula are not isolated extremists. Attempted bombings by operatives dispatched by the Pakistani Taliban are not one-off attacks. Planned assaults on American facilities overseas are not protests. Groups blowing up airliners are not contained. September 11 was not an episode. Mass casualty attacks are not setbacks.

The long war is not over.

As Churchill famously said during WW II after winning the air Battle of Britain, we aren't at the beginning of the end, but it just might be the end of the beginning. Meanwhile President Powder Puff makes Neville Chamberlain look, by comparison, like a junk yard dog.