Nice job, Mr. President, as you have been hearing, but now let us see what you’ve learned. As of now, you stand poised between the morass in Libya and the impressive success of the strike at Osama bin Laden, which make you seem like two different people who stand for two different poles.

In Libya, you attempted to “lead from behind;” with bin Laden, you were all forward motion. In Libya, you were pushed into the fray by external parties and tried to seem passive; with bin Laden, it was you who provided the impetus.