OBAMA’S MIDDLE EAST RECORD: ZERO PERCENT SUCCESS? By Obama’s own criteria. Plus this:

An American reader writes me, “I’ve tried explaining the situation in the Middle East to friends and there are blank stares. I believe what they’re thinking is that how come, if it is so bad, I haven’t seen it in the newspapers or on the national news? The New York Times doesn’t mention it at all.”

That’s how you know it’s a miserable failure. . . .

Related: MUST WATCH: Lara Logan’s explosive speech on the resurgence of the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.