Turkey's Erdogan is in Somalia these days. Obama is on Martha's Vineyard. Erdogan has a tactical and strategic plan for the Horn of Africa. It's not clear Obama has. J.E. Dyer writes:
The US at the moment is perilously close to being used for the purposes of others, like a dying and dithering empire. In spite of the significance of the setback for Al-Shabaab in Somalia, to everything from the piracy problem to dominance in the Middle East, the US is nowhere to be seen in the strategic aftermath of this tactical victory. We have no idea what to do with it. But Erdogan does.