Yemen Warning Rationale

President Obama's closest advisors and pollsters have let him know in blunt terms that the NWA terrorist and how the administration botched their reaction (they are furious with Secretary of Homeland Security Napolitano and a White House source says Obama has discussed the pros and cons of firing her with his aides) did considerable harm to Obama, so much so that the GOP has already had strategy sessions on how to use this embarrassment against the Dems and Obama.

With his polls in free fall, President Obama is watching his political cache vanish and big losses this year in November will mean big trouble for him in 2012. He has decided to try to appear to be more of a wartime president and avoid using weak language and making false statements as he did when first describing the attack, and he believes Yemen now offers him a way to actually look like a serious commander in chief who accepts that there are such things as terrorists after all.