Are You Safer Now Than You Were Four Years Ago? Washington Post Op-Ed by Eliot Cohen.
... Why is this the Obama administration’s record? Perhaps the president and his aides are declinists, who think of the United States as too weak to act; perhaps they are indifferent; perhaps they are merely incompetent. In any event, this president will leave his successor a country that is considerably less secure than it was when he took the oath of office...