that s totally consistent with what i call the obama doctrine, that other countries are going to have to do more in a more diverse international order. but this is war. i mean you can t extinguish our knowledge about war. this idea that you can have a limited video game, it just isn t the way it is. no one knows more about this than tom ricks. and the question is, what s going on here, and the larger picture is what savannah is calling the arab spring. i m not sure whether it s unrest, an up heevl, whether these are revolutions. but in a 5,000-mile area, mon toews ya to afghanistan, you have to kind of put all of this together, the president has a mammoth management problem.