Another Obama Foreign Policy Success

The New York Times confirms reports that the radical American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was killed in a drone strike in Yemen.

First Read: “No president since George H.W. Bush has had more foreign-policy successes happen under his watch than President Obama. The death of bin Laden. The dismantling of al Qaeda. The ouster of Khaddafy. And the end of combat operations in Iraq. Yet when you look at polls and Obama’s approval rating, he’s getting almost no credit from the American public, a la Bush 41.”

Jake Tapper: “Remember when Rudy Giuliani warned that electing Barack Obama would mean that the U.S. played defense, not offense, against the terrorists? If this is defense, what does offense look like?”

Andrew Sullivan: “Obama has done in two years what Bush failed to do in eight.”