Where is President Obama in this Crises?

Notice in this article where the French government told the United States Government that they have to get permission from the United Nations to launch any retaliatory act, not that the cowardly President Obama would ever save a U.S. life through aggressive acts,? This is an "I told you so" moment. We were a sovereign nation who took our own council on how to conduct our business but now we are ordered by vice president of the Philippines as to how we may proceed, and if our U.S. Citizen dies in the process so what, Americans deserve to die.