Page 2 of 2  Obama Against the World  Forget Mitt Romney, can
the President make it to November 7th?  | Mon Sep. 24, 2012 1:43
PM EDT  The truth is, from Iran to Iraq to Afghanistan to
Pakistan to Libya to Yemen, despite almost four years of Obama's
ministrations and management, war and diplomacy, the Bush legacy
is still threatening to blow the region sky-high. It could
easily happen any time in the 43 days before November 6th. Which
is why, from Sudan to Libya, the Obama administration is playing
little Dutch boy, trying to plug every hole it can in the Middle
Eastern dike and praying that any coming tsunami won't hit
before the election.  A World at the Boiling Point  The question
of the political season, then, has nothing to do with Mitt. It's
this: Can the Greater Middle East be managed effectively enough
for any potentially embarrassing thing to be swept under some
rug until November 7th? And that's just one region on a planet
aboil.  Similar questions could be asked of Israeli policy on
Iran where Prim