Great post from Ace of Spades:
Obama has once again proven the long-known wisdom -- of which he was ignorant, and when it was told to him, he jeered at it, because it conflicted with his "new" thinking -- that the surest way to waste men's lives in pointless warfare is to adopt a craven, cowering position and invite aggression.  All hail the Eternal Failure and Bringer of Destruction, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Barack Obama.  They are resorting to Orwellian double-speak to not call it combat, because, of course, Obama declared the end of combat action in Iraq, and Obama is a vain and weak man who mistakes himself for a god.So they're calling it "direct action on the ground."  Like that soldier who died when entering, um, a hostile non-permissive environment. Totally different from "combat."