Chip Bok's Bokbluster

After retreating from Iraq, Afghanistan, and US embassies around the Muslim world, the president called in the marines – as background props for a Camp Pendleton speech – to announce that the “United States is never going to retreat from the world”. “We don’t get terrorized,” he said.

He also repeated his claim that “the core of Al Qaeda is on the way to defeat”.

Or as the late Osama bin Laden put it, “When people see a strong horse and a weak horse they like the strong horse”.