Obama wins first National Security "test," danger looms on horizon

The dramatic rescue yesterday of Captain Richard Phillips by US special forces and Navy snipers could not have worked out more perfectly for the young administration, as well as the US as a whole.
An American life was saved and everyone can take a sigh of relief, and although critics were beginning to grumble about Obama not injecting himself into the crisis more directly, it appears in a narrative that is being quietly pushed by the White House that Obama had never not been involved, having been given 17 briefings on the situation over 4 days, including many in the White House situation room. Obama had also signed off on two different declarations over the weekend to use hostile force if it appeared that the captain's life was in danger.
Obama bringing in the FBI and justice department officials shows that he has almost an obsession with lawfulness, possbly due to his legal pedigree and careful, cautious nature as well as ensuring his early actions are not seen as too close to that of his predecessor.
Although politics will likely be left out of this situation as everyone can just relish in the fact that for once the good guys won, critics will be more likely to ease off any early criticism of Obama's future actions of using the vast military power at his disposal.
Still, Obama may have created a new situation for himself with these actions. Predictably, some pirates that operate off the coast of Somalia have sworn revenge against both the Americans and French and have vowed to kill more sailors, which means that there will only be more incidents like this in the future and may force the administration to make more hard decisions as to how much they really want to escalate this crisis.