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"I still say Kayla should be here, and if Obama had been as decisive as President Trump, maybe she would have been," Marsha Mueller said.

But I think "decisive" is the wrong word.

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Obama valued signaling and appearances in a sincere way. He was always signaling. By treating Bin Laden's corpse reverently; by an excruciating choice of words and many other ways he was signaling. Always signaling, which he saw as an important part of his job.
What he never quite accepted was that his signals never had the intended effect. Baghdadi was a thug and all of Obama's punctilio never made it past the brutal filter.
Like Dr. Arthur Carrington from the movie "The Thing from Another World" he was always trying to reason with the monster convinced that words would win the day. Obama was not indecisive. His decision was different.
Ironically it was Maureen Dowd in the NYT who most clearly understood this. "Obama — Just Too Good for Us"

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