Opinion of Obama's foreign policy

[American2020]

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[President Johnson]

Mostly good on rhetoric, not so good in practice. Overall HP.

I never thought I would say this, objectively, there are just too many failures. Especially Syria, Libya and his weak approach towards Russia. He was also weak on Saudi Arabia and his handling of the mass survailance scandal massively hurt his standing in Europe. I give him points for bringing bin Laden to justice, withdrawing from Iraq and for at least trying to get TPP done. But on latter he also fell short in the end and the withdrawl from Iraq enabled the rise of ISIS. He was also weak at that front. In my view Obama was often too weak and indecisive.

[OSR stands with Israel]

One of the 4 worst post WW2 presidents in this regard along with Carter W and LBJ

[Progressive Pessimist]

Outside of the short-lived Iran deal, probably his weakest aspect.

[SnowLabrador]

Horrible Policy, but still better than Biden's.

[TDAS04]

Meh.

[Sir Mohamed]

Pros
+ Killing Bin Laden
+ Ending Iraq War
+ Iran Nuclear Agreement
+ Paris Climate Accords
+ Cuban Thaw

Cons
- Libya disaster
- Syria disaster and red line the sand that encouraged Putin to get in
- Weak response to Russian intervention in the Donbas and Crimea in 2014
- Weak response to Russian election interferance and cyber warfare
- Rise of so-called "Islamic State" (though that was mainly a fallout from the disastrous post-war Iraq policy of the W Admin)
- PRISM survaillance scandal
- Support for Saudi Arabia, veto of Justice against sponsors of terrorism Act


Overall mixed, but if forced, I had to vote HP. Just too many cons, as much as I want to rate it otherwise.

[Beet]

To be fair, the PRISM scandal wasn't Obama's fault. Every president spies on Americans, he just happened to get caught. Unless you think the scandal was the getting caught part. Every president also supports Saudi Arabia so listing that is kind of pointless.

[Sir Mohamed]

To be fair, the PRISM scandal wasn't Obama's fault. Every president spies on Americans, he just happened to get caught. Unless you think the scandal was the getting caught part.

Just because each admin does it, doesn't mean it's less bad. Mass survaillance also shouldn't be normalized, regardless of which party is in power.

[DaleCooper]

To be fair, the PRISM scandal wasn't Obama's fault. Every president spies on Americans, he just happened to get caught. Unless you think the scandal was the getting caught part.

Just because each admin does it, doesn't mean it's less bad. Mass survaillance also shouldn't be normalized, regardless of which party is in power.

Obama also lied compulsively about ending Dubya's surveillance state.

[インターネット掲示板ユーザー Punxsutawney Phil]

Heavily flawed in execution in many areas. FP only because of the Pivot to Asia.

[President Johnson]

To be fair, the PRISM scandal wasn't Obama's fault. Every president spies on Americans, he just happened to get caught. Unless you think the scandal was the getting caught part.

Just because each admin does it, doesn't mean it's less bad. Mass survaillance also shouldn't be normalized, regardless of which party is in power.

Obama also lied compulsively about ending Dubya's surveillance state.

Yeah, the mass survaillance also affected allies of the United States and caused severe damage. I mean, Merkel's phone was tapped, which I found unacceptable. It's not like she was suspecious of anything. Obama even awarded her the Medal of Freedom.

[Don't Blame Me, I'm from Massachusetts]

HP

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Horrible but not as bad as Dubya

[Mr. Smith]

HP, but still the best thing between Bush Sr and Biden, and he was dealt a really bad hand.