Notoriously heedless of his own safety and well-being, President Obama plunged into the Global Struggle Against Man-Caused Disasters by appearing before an array of thousands of young, savage fighters from, as reported by respected frontline journalist Chris Matthews, the enemy camp. The rest of us know this institution as the US army service academy located at West Point, NY.

Surrounded, outnumbered and unarmed, Obama demonstrated his native cunning. The true fighting man always concentrates on what he has, never what he has not. As such he could count on the Commandant of Cadets ordering enthusiasm from the assembled cadets when otherwise they might refrain from applauding promptly and properly, wounding Mr. Obama, perhaps fatally. This was a shrewd maneuver and not the only one.

The purpose of his incursion was itself an audacious enterprise. Alone, Mr. Obama sought to steal a march on his foes, showing the flag before this hostile force; demonstrating his control of the battlespace. He would, if successful, steal defeat from the jaws of victory before the eyes of the world, committing to a build up of forces peopled by these very adversaries but not TOO large a build-up that might cause anyone to think there was any serious risk of victory or anything so vulgar as that.

And this is not the first such exploit on the unblemished record of our dowdy and dapper President. Modestly he chronicled in one of his two autobiographies that during the year and a half or so when he was engaged in something you or I would recognize as work, he was in fact operating behind enemy lines, facing his adversaries of the finance community, taking their measure up close. We see the benefit of this experience in his stern handling of these malefactors over these last few months.

But that was mere skirmishing. Now, he has met the true enemy and it is us. It is the mulish resistance of the Don’t Tread On Me crowd that is the true threat to the Republic and the Constitution rather than exploding goatherds and ambushing psychiatrists. Radical notions like that there is a moral and indeed, practical limit to taxation, debt and spending threaten our ancient rights to have our mortgages renegotiated and our acne cream reimbursed. Free speech is threatened by those who presume that right is extended to those who do not earn seven figures to expound on war, finance, law and culture when their only bonafide expertise is in, say, theater. Such threats are worthy of a metaphorical war at least, but the vigor with which the Obies prosecuted the War on Fox, the just and necessary media war which fizzled to a capitulation in nine days, does not suggest a determined application to Afghanistan, also just and necessary but requiring a touch more fortitude.

Oh, don’t worry for the Afghan war though. As we were told by Obama and other Democrats from Hillary to Edwards this is the Good War, as opposed to that Bad War in Iraq. If it even is a war. Really, it is little more than a law enforcement action; it is a traffic accident investigation gone amok. Of course the vehicles that collide are driven by explosives but still, just let the cops do their jobs and they will have it all cleared up presently. We know this because as of July after next, we will incur overtime and there is no way that is happening. So we are certain of success, though not of victory, and we know it will happen of a certainty before Back2Skool sales are in full swing in ’11 and, perhaps oddly, just before the next campaign season.

Yes, you can sleep easily. The War is as good as won, though it isn’t a war and there is no such thing as winning. The strategy to which we are now committed, though not for long, was proposed, promulgated and endorsed by the President with the selection of McChrystal as theater commander in March. Then, of course, the need was for eighty thousand troops. With the passage of a few weeks, that need was reduced to sixty thousand. With a hundred odd days elapsed since then the need has shrunk to forty thousand and a brief application of Obama-level genius reveals that truly thirty thousand is plenty. If we had waited until Easter time or so, perhaps we would have needed no additional troops at all but we leave these decisions up to the Executive. And our Executive has promised to finish the job. What that job is, will be determined later, probably by a personal audit by the President, adept as he is at reconnaissance under fire, behind enemy lines.

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