奥巴马对恐怖分子的斩首行为，最著名的当然是除掉本拉登了，虽然郭卡认为这个举动破坏了和盟国巴基斯坦的关系（to the detriment of our relationship with other nations, especially Pakistan）。另外一个也非常有名的例子，是奥巴马定点清除了Anwar al-Awlaki， 一个美国籍的也门伊斯兰教士，他在世界范围内用漂亮的美国英语演讲宣传鼓动极端恐怖主义袭击，是基地组织类似政委的宣传型人才，被来自美军无人机的一颗导弹送上西天了。但是由于他具有美国国籍，这个暗杀行动当时引起了极大的争议，特别是左翼人士的批评。
1. “奥巴马给他们现金，特朗普把他们变成灰烬”！（Obama sent them cash. Trump turned them to ash）。
2. “左派不去祝贺三军总司令，反而批评特朗普，同情伊朗毛拉和“受人尊重的军事领导人”苏拉曼尼”！（Instead of commending the commander-in-chief, the Left and its lackeys in the media are criticizing President Trump and sympathizing with the mullahs and the “revered Iranian military figure,” Qassem Suleimani）。
补：郭卡大作的一些原文引用：
President obama, a democrat, did not proves as dovish as his supporters expected. He may have been against large-sclae military deploymnets in the cause of nation building, but he was more than ready to kill jihadist, or to have them killed. In 2011, both laden and awlaki met their maker - the former at the hands of a special operations force covertly helicopterd into Pakistan, the latter at the end of a missle strike from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UVA). In fact, President obama resoted to targeted killing by UAT at a rate that outstripped President Bush's by order of magnitutde. Not only was he far more willing to have American's e enemy killed remotely - often to the detriment of our relationship with other nations, especially Pakistan - but he was willing to kill a American citizen as well, citizen like Awlaki and Samir Khan, the editor of Inspire.
Did the president's keenness for Hellfire missiles represent a better understanding of the threat to America and a greater commitment to winning the war against Jihadism? Strangely enough, it didn't.
As one high-ranking special forces general shared with me, President obama and his team see the kinetics options, such as drone strikes, as the "easy button". The thinking has become: So-and-So is a member of Al Qaeda? find him. launch a drone. kill him. then we will prevent the next 911. Unfortunately, this logic is not only simplistic, it is dangerous.
American has demonstrated in the past fifteen years that it is preeminent in the use of overt force. As the same general told me, if we know you are a high-value target, and I have your GPS coordinates, we can kill you in the next 72 hours. but so what? The administration stikingly misunderstand the simple math of extremism. If you kill one jihadist and fifteen other fundamentalist muslims volunteer to replace him the next day, your UAV stike or special operations mission can turn into a recruiting flatform for the enemy, dooming you to endless rounds of "whack a mole" against the growing ranks of jihadist.
