Our wars have gone badly since WW II.
Now we hear that Obama had to sneak in and out of Afghanistan under the cover of darkness.
That was the level of security achieved in Iraq as well.
The longest war in our history has a visit from Obama to get a photo op for the folks at home and to ensure that the military, industrial, financial, security complex continues to get funds. The trip was a success for the ongoing support of the power structure.
This is described in today's posting by Juan Cole.
http://www.juancole.com/...
We are a sick country.
How much longer will the world continue to finance our folly?
Yes, but, Obama has won the foreign policy argument for the election!
He is less bad than the crazy Republicans!
Glenn Greenwald's article yesterday lists the accelerated assaults on civil liberties in the year since Bin Laden's death.
http://www.salon.com/...
The "successes" in foreign policy, with their technology support, are all lined up for "success" against civil disobedience here at home. And since the "success" was in reality a failure, we can only hope that the power elite fails to put down the attempt to take the country back from the 1% here at home.