While Obama fiddled

William Jacobson has this right (Hat Tip: Instapundit). Internationally, it more is a matter of neglect and disregard, rather than a causal connection.Having prostrated the United States before the world in the first months of his administration, and then having largely abandoned that world while focusing on Obamacare, we have watched a de facto Iranian takeover of Lebanon via Hezbollah, and a