This isn’t going to be the most challenging situation that he’s going to face. All he really has to do is call the CNO into the Oval Office and say, “Admiral, handle it. I want that captain back alive and the pirates made an example of”. Then the pros take over, and Obama comes out of it smelling like a rose.
He won’t do that. As you’ve pointed out, he doesn’t have any idea of what to do. He’s probably trying to micromanage it from the White House, which is going to end up being a great big bucket of fail.
Will be spun to look like a great big victory by the same MSM that helped get the jerk elected. After all, the people around Obama who are calling the shots are part of the MSM elites who also helped Clinton stay in office after Monica.
They can't allow Obama to fail because they will also look like failures (because they are!).