Try as they might, Mitt Romney and his coterie of national security advisers' complaints about President Obama's "feckless" foreign policy haven't gained much traction so far, and there's a good reason for that.

Yes, the president is vulnerable when it comes to not taking action in Syria, as Bashar al-Assad indiscriminately kills his own citizens daily. Still, it's not like the rest of the world is looking to get involved there at this point — though at some point that might change.

But when it comes to chasing and killing terrorists, Obama takes a back seat to no one, and that includes the George W. Bush administration. Most of the dirty work has been done by drone air attacks — not just in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but also in Yemen and Somalia, countries that we theoretically aren't at war with.

On the eve of the one-year anniversary of the assassination of Osama bin Laden, John Brennan, President Obama's counter-terrorism adviser, became the first U.S. government official to acknowledge that the drone strikes sometimes kill innocent people, though he called such deaths “exceedingly rare.”