With their five-weeks of paid vacation, the French know a thing or two about vacations. They also know a thing or two about losing wars. (No malice against the French intended. Those are the facts.) So Obama should listen when the French give advice about either of those subjects. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius recently gave Obama a piece of free advice, saying, “I know it is the holiday period in our Western countries, but when people are dying, you must come back from vacation.” But Obama took care of the Iraq kerfuffle. He authorized military strikes, and took off for Martha’s Vineyard. He gave a statement on the fighting and headed to the golf course. It’s a foreign policy ball lost in the rough. More…