“This could turn out to be the incident that defines the Obama presidency.”
That may very well be true. And who knows what future repercussions may stem from this incident on the high seas?
Did anyone think that the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand would lead to WWI, and change the course of history?
WWI, in turn, might possibly have had these other consequences:
“It could be argued that this assassination set in motion most of the major events of the 20th century, with its reverberations lingering into the 21st. The Treaty of Versailles at the end of the First World War is generally linked to the rise of Adolf Hitler and World War II. It also led to the Russian Revolution, which helped lead to the Cold War. This, in turn, led to many of the major political developments of the twentieth century, such as the fall of the colonial empires and the rise of the United States and the Soviet Union to super-power status.”
Obama is too unintelligent to understand this, but perhaps his Joint Chiefs of Staff can point out some of this history to him, and enlighten him as to what his action (or inaction) in this situation might precipitate.
That whole WWI situation is fascinating. If Ferdinand hadn’t been such a gutsy guy and if his driver hadn’t gotten lost, the world would probably be a very different place.