Well, perhaps I should have put, secret , in quotes. According to the Washington Post:

Beneath its commitment to soft-spoken diplomacy and beyond the combat zones of Afghanistan and Iraq, the Obama administration has significantly expanded a largely secret U.S. war against al-Qaeda and other radical groups, according to senior military and administration officials.

Special Operations forces have grown both in number and budget, and are deployed in 75 countries, compared with about 60 at the beginning of last year. In addition to units that have spent years in the Philippines and Colombia, teams are operating in Yemen and elsewhere in the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia.

Commanders are developing plans for increasing the use of such forces in Somalia, where a Special Operations raid last year killed the alleged head of al-Qaeda in East Africa. Plans exist for preemptive or retaliatory strikes in numerous places around the world, meant to be put into action when a plot has been identified, or after an attack linked to a specific group.

That’s how you run an empire — soft-spoken on the outside, murderous in private. Obama, like G.W. Bush, is a psychopathic killer. Bush is publicly proud of waterboarding and invading Iraq. Obama thinks his job is the best one in the world. Where else do you get to threaten or kill with no accountability. Quite a step up from street activist in Chicago. No wonder he’s such an arrogant pig.

75 countries? Wow! So do you think public diplomacy means anything? In public: we hope country X will do the right thing. In private: do what we want or else. Ever wonder why John Wilkes Booth said, "Sic semper tyrannis", after he shot Lincoln in the head? They never taught me in public school that Lincoln was a dictator. And they’re not teaching that Obama is a dictator, too.