Waiting, not jumping in

Last laugh on a rather appalling "Meet the Press" last Sunday. For some reason the assembled crew seemed to think that Obama is failing because he hasn't fixed North Korea, Iran etc. And after all he's had, what, about four months. 

Biggest criticisms were about how the mighty U.S. was being held at bay by a bunch of scruffy pirates off Somali. No one chose to remember that the only reason the pirates had not been blown out of the water was that they were holding a U.S. citizen hostage.

Fast forward a few hours and NBC is showing impressive graphics about how the hostage was freed and the pirates dealt with in a very straightforward and deadly manner.

What Obama and the military appear to have done is to calmly look at the situation, plan for an opportunity to solve the problem and then done so about as efficiently as anyone could imagine. Our "Meet the Press" critics probably yearn for the Bush years when no one would have sat back and thought about it, just rushed in. 

I guess a thinking administration is going to need some getting used to in some quarters.