I Guess The War On Terror IS Over- Obama's Speech to Congress

I mentioned a few days ago that the President needs a Commander in Chief moment to buoy the troops our allies and send notice to our foes. Strangely Obama did not even go there last night. In fact as to National Security it was pretty much a no show altogether. This is becoming more of a increasing concern.

See About Last Night where the Peter Wehner states in part:

What was perhaps most striking in the speech is what it ignored: national security. It is kind of extraordinary, really: last week President Obama ordered an additional 17,000 troops to Afghanistan, yet there was no effort in last night’s speech to put this decision in any larger context. The same is true of Iraq; almost nothing was said about it. It was almost as if America was not at war and militant Islam has evaporated as a threat. It hasn’t, of course. We can only hope that Obama’s lack of rhetorical interest on national security affairs doesn’t reflect a governing indifference to it. If it does, there are grounds to be quite alarmed. Obama is the only commander-in-chief we have; he cannot simply continue to pretend that part of his job description is an after-thought. As William Kristol put it, “This was not the speech of a man who thinks of himself as a war president. But he is.”

Also see The Insular President