Matthew Norman: Obama has shown the world why it fell in love with him

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/matthew-norman/matthew-norman-obama-has-shown-the-world-why-it-fell-in-love-with-him-2278391.html

The Post Modern presidency seeks consensus, not unitlateralism, to achieve its goals. It reserves the right to act alone, as we did in Pakistan this Sunday, but strives to unite allies based on their common desires. In doing so it does not abdicate its leadership position, but instead seeks to solidify it in long-term actions. This is how the Europeans prefer we act, since they often get dragged along either way, which goes a long way in explaining why they love Obama perhaps more than we do.

Obama bet not only his presidency on that raid, he bet the entire Afghan War, the 2012 election,, and probably even our remaining cache with many of our allies. Had it failed all of those would have been down the drain. He deserves some credit for that at least.