The luck of the Irish...

It is pretty bizarre to hear the rescue of the captain of the hijacked ship was the first test of Obama's foreign policy. I am very glad he was rescued, but it seems to me this was pretty much a police action, not a triumph of military might of as some gas bags put it, His First Big Test. Not to say there wasn't a tremendous amount of skill that went into the rescue, but a certain amount of luck entered into it, as there was so much that could have gone wrong. I am sure the right wing nut jobs were getting increasing gleeful at the prospect of a humiliated and impotent America held hostage by a bunch of Somali pirates. No doubt at Fox they were fantasizing about headlines reading "Day 10 - America Held Hostage" and are now gnashing their teeth.