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Obama’s Defining Moment?

The Frogs act, Shashank Bengali and Jonathan S. Landay, McClatchy Newspapers [1]:

[T]he French government said that its navy on Friday freed a yacht that was captured over the weekend, but that one hostage had died in a gun battle between pirates and French special forces. Four other hostages were rescued unharmed. French forces killed two pirates and captured three others

Obama diddles, Tom Suhadolnik, American Thinker [2]:

Meanwhile in the USA, when asked about an American being held hostage by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden, President Obama refused to answer any questions. Various reports say Obama has delegated the handling of this incident to high level administration officials and military commanders.

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Most historians agree when JFK first met Khrushchev in 1961, JFK’s abysmal performance emboldened Khrushchev to make increasingly aggressive moves culminating the Cuban Missile Crisis. This may be Obama’s Khrushchev moment.

Obama’s teleprompter  can only handle one problem at a time.   Piracy is just a distracti0n to the one.