Leading from Behind

Barack Hussein Obama has become the master of a concept of "leading from behind" wherein an endeavor of international or domestic importance goes well and one who has hidden in the rear is rewarded with credit from the American dinosaur press, but if the effort had fallen short, the leader who has evaded having to lead (as Obama proudly proclaimed qua Libya) has succeeded in insulating himself from blame for failure and will plausibly be able to wash his hands of it- a real win-win situation with a handmaiden media, who want to crown Obama the father of all successes, gladly doing the groundwork. In fact, comparisons between the last President Bush in Iraq said to be the cause of thousands of American dead and a trillion dollars in US monetary costs are already being made with Obama supposedly proving that "cowboy" aggressiveness could have been avoided with no American lives lost and America spending less than a billion dollars in Libya to depose Muammar Gaddafi. Except of course, the seven million Libyans are not the twenty-five million Iraqis. Libya never seized Kuwait. Libya is not Iraq. Muammar Gaddafi still roams free to do further damage, and Gaddafi though a tyrant and murderer in his own right is no Saddam Hussein, other than that- the Obama mouthpiece media shows a dead on symmetry between the two benighted Arab despots (the late Saddam and Gaddafi) and surely shows how much smarter and effective Obama is than George W. Bush.