What is behind all of the faux outrage, hyper-ventilation, and poor reporting about Obama's remarks that as President he would go after high value al Qaeda targets in remote regions inside Pakistan if we had actionable intelligence and Pakistan would not act?
Josh Marshall has an answer:
The unspoken truth here, I suspect, is that Obama has struck on the central folly of our post-9/11 counter-terrorism
defense policy -- strike hard where they aren't and go easy where they are. I think everyone can see this. But Obama got
there first. So they need to attack him for saying it.
Sounds about right.
