Dave, the US isn't the only country fighting radical Islam. Currently there's debate in Canada about our special forces' "training" role in Iraq with the pershmerga, teaching targeting for our F18 fighters; turns out they're on the front line guns blazing (which most of us figured they were doing anyway). If you prefer to believe the US isn't a mixed economy with government regulating in every sphere of human activity, that's okay with me. Obama's legitimacy: he's there because voters preferred him to GOP presidential candidates.