Another war president, after all

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"You may not be interested in war", Leon Trotsky is alleged to have said, "but war is interested in you." On Christmas Eve Barack Obama embarked on a delayed holiday in Hawaii, having lingered to watch the Senate pass its health bill. But thanks to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's bungled Christmas-Day bomb plot, the president returned to Washington this week with more urgent priorities: to fix a broken intelligence system that he says is endangering American lives, and to rebut Republican allegations that he does not "get" the war on terrorism.