Mona Charen: “A few questions for President Barack Obama. … If it is in the U.S. national security interest to keep Iraq from disintegrating, why are you deploying at most 300 special forces – just 50 more than you sent to find and destroy Joseph Kony of the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda? Does Kony represent a comparable threat to the United States in your judgment? … You scolded President George W. Bush – by implication – during your remarks when you said that the present crisis should remind us of ‘the need to ask hard questions before we take action abroad, particularly military action.’ Did you ask hard questions before making the decision to withdraw all forces from Iraq, or were you more interested bragging rights about ‘ending wars’? Do you see now that the enemy gets a vote?”