Click to play videoLondon: The president elect has already got down to business and received his first top secret intelligence briefing. It's a sign he's preparing to tackle one major campaign issue -- the war on terror.
You could sense it in his speech, there is little time to savour success and extremists waging their war of terror are still on the hunt for their own victory.
From the rubble of a suicide attack at the Marriott hotel in Pakistan, to Afghanistan’s blood-soaked battlefields, its time for Obama’s statements during the campaign such as "I will finally finish the fight against Al Qaeda, we will put them out of business, " to put to test.
The head of US central command, general David Petraeus, was soothing allies this week in Pakistan. David Petraeus and his current boss president bush have already made it clear to Obama, he must make up his mind on how best to tackle the war in Afghanistan before he takes office
Obama has repeatedly said Osama Bin Laden must be chased out of the cave where he lives presumably in the tribal regions of Pakistan where US intelligence officials believe he is hiding.
But Pakistani officials told CNN this week the US has it all wrong, they will try to convince Obama that Bin Laden is not in Pakistan.
And so the plot thickens as it always has in navigating a road to peace on either side of the Pakistan-Afghan border, something Obama has said he realizes
There are clear signs president-elect Obama is already tackling the frustrating complexity of the war on terror he will inherit, but some say that doesn't mean he will have any more success at winning it.
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