Obama's foreign policy triumphs are many!

  For quite a while, many of us suspected that our POTUS was more affectionate toward most Middle Eastern countries than the West.
  It's sort of hard to make that case, at this point in Obama's administration, considering how things are going.  
  For the US, POTUS has decided that the way to win hearts and minds of the citizens is to 

• 1) issue more regulations (600 new ones in July alone)  
• 2)  confiscate equipment/materials with those you disagree (Gibson guitar)   
• 3)  make dramatic television appearances in which you excoriate, ridicule and mock your opponents   
• 4) knock off pests with a drone strike.

  It is to that last point we make note this evening. 
  Let's look at the recent activities of our government, including assassination orders against American citizens, one of whom was a teenage boy. Washington Times:  

The United States is now, like the Sicilian Mafia, in the business of taking out anyone it doesn’t like. And not at the ballot box, but at the end of a gun (or drone, if you happen to be in Libya). Now, if we don’t like you, you’re going to wind up dead. The new foreign policy: Breaking Bad - Worldwide. [SNIP]

It is the same way we Americans last month took out a fellow citizen,Anwar al-Awlaki. He was never indicted of any crime, yet a CIA-led drone strike whacked him, again targeting a motorcade (who knows how many others were killed). It turned out that al-Awlaki was on a secret list of Americans approved for killings abroad, with no regard to due process - or a little thing called the Constitution, where the Fifth Amendment says, “No person shall be deprived of life without due process of law.”

Far less known is that the U.S. also took out al-Awlaki’s son the same way. The government claimed he was 21, but the boy was born in Denver just 16 years ago. Yet the government clammed up when asked about the killing. “The officials would not discuss the attack in any detail, including who the target was,” The Washington Post reported after the attack.

  That last part is US domestic policy: they don't have to tell us anything they don't want to tell us.
  Just like the 11th century.
  In another foreign policy coup, President Obama offered his condolences for the Saudi King's death.

 From the golf course.  WH Dossier thought that odd. Oh, well. It should help ease hurt feelings in the Middle East, n'est ce pas?
  In fact, the WSJ's Taranto seems to take morbid pleasure in pointing out that Obama's now known for the number of assassinations he's ordered/approved in the Middle East:

Who'd have thought Barack Obama would end up killing more Arab tyrants and terrorists in just the past two years than George W. Bush did in three? 

We are not the first to make this observation. "For a president who promised to end the gunslinger ways of his predecessor, Barack Obama has proven himself comfortable with the use of lethal force," the Los Angeles Times reports. The paper counts Gadhafi as another "notch" on Obama's "lethal-force belt," along with Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and others. "All told this year," the report adds, the president "has sent U.S. troops into action on land or in the skies of seven countries on two continents."

  Apparently all these US prescribed ill fates of Arab leaders (but no support, even verbal, for the actual freedom fighters) are now considered *foreign policy achievements* for the peace loving Nobel prize winning politician Barack Hussein Obama. 
  As someone recently said, assassination as foreign policy is an iffy way to conduct business. In 1975, Time magazine even pointed out the previous purveyors of assassination as foreign policy. Barack Hussein Obama is not setting historical precedent, it appears:

History's classic murders for policy purposes were committed by the 11th-century Moslem sect of Assassins, founded by the fanatically ambitious Hasan ibn-al-Sabbah. Established in a rocky fortress in the Elburz mountains, Hasan propagated his autocratic rule by a program of systematic murder. His killers were the Fida'is (devout ones), young men trained from adolescence in a sort of Green Beret tradition to murder with a variety of weapons.

  See, Barack Hussein Obama fits right in with 11th century Moslem assassins! 
  Over here, leftists, who so recently were opposed to torture but apparently not to assassinations, don't hesitate to call the killings "Obama successes," since he hasn't got much else to run on for 2012, although some liberals worry why the "US remains deeply unpopular in the Arab world."
  Go figure.
  Some conservatives take solace in the fact that Bush set the stage for the events that are occurring now; better watch that rhetoric, guys, because the whole Arab Spring thing is not really about Spring so much as the whole jihad thing coming down.
  Here's another great foreign policy triumph for the Obama administration.
  Hillary laughs about the Qaddaffi death on camera. 
  Is that great politics or WHAT? That shouldn't inflame anything, right? Fitting for a Secretary of State of the United States? Yeah?  Triumph!