"Why are Obama's critics so dumb?"

Sullivan's cover story (yeah, the one with the, er, provocative headline) is worth reading. On the Republicans' 'unhinged' critiques of the president's foreign policy:

Romney accuses the president of apologizing for America, and others all but accuse him of treason and appeasement. Instead, Obama reversed Bush’s policy of ignoring Osama bin Laden, immediately setting a course that eventually led to his capture and death. And when the moment for decision came, the president overruled both his secretary of state and vice president in ordering the riskiest—but most ambitious—plan on the table. He even personally ordered the extra helicopters that saved the mission. It was a triumph, not only in killing America’s primary global enemy, but in getting a massive trove of intelligence to undermine al Qaeda even further. If George Bush had taken out bin Laden, wiped out al Qaeda’s leadership, and gathered a treasure trove of real intelligence by a daring raid, he’d be on Mount Rushmore by now. But where Bush talked tough and acted counterproductively, Obama has simply, quietly, relentlessly decimated our real enemies, while winning the broader propaganda war. Since he took office, al Qaeda’s popularity in the Muslim world has plummeted.

You can read the rest here. I suppose the next Newsweek headline from Sullivan will have to be, "Why are Sullivan's critics so dumb?" He responds to them:

None of these critics shows any sign of having read the actual article. Is it too much to ask that they rip me apart after thinking rather than before? It's not a book, for Pete's sake. It's less than 3,000 words, and has strong criticism of the left in it. Maybe the headline, which I didn't write, set them off. So a simple challenge: show me where I'm wrong and we can debate this. Or are you only synapses firing into the partisan night?