article_snippet.sent: The results of the Obama White House's innovative efforts to make the world a better place can be accounted for in the ever-growing numbers of victims of radical Islam in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia.
article_snippet.sent: Is it not a tragic irony that the Arab Spring-era policies of a Nobel Peace Prize recipient accommodated the transition of Syria into the world's newest jihad theater while leaving Libya a failed state and Yemen a failing state?
article_snippet.sent: Yes, Osama bin Laden was killed on President Obama's watch.
article_snippet.sent: But contrary to what the White House seemed to think in 2011, Osama bin Laden death has not lifted the shadow bin Laden's death casts over America's, or our allies' security.
article_snippet.sent: Meanwhile, Yemen -- home to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the al Qaeda branch that claimed credit for the January 2015 attack in Paris at the office of Charlie Hebdo -- has also become a failed state.
article_snippet.sent: So it is interesting that, in the months before the Yemeni government was overthrown by Iran-backed rebels, Obama described the U.S.-Yemen counterterrorism partnership as a shining example of success in the fight against al Qaeda -- interesting because Obama did not do more to help that "partner" government remain in power.