3. Lindsey Graham: “This is a half-assed strategy at best.”

Lindsey Graham: “This is a half-assed strategy at best.”

Obama successes: Respect for US leadership has gone up dramatically and every single poll agrees with this, views of the united states are far more positive then they were under Bush.http://www.pewglobal.org/2014/07/14/chapter-1-the-american-brand/
http://www.pewglobal.org/2013/07/18/chapter-2-global-opinion-of-barack-obama/#confidence-in-obama

As for China and Russia it's overplayed, Putin invaded Georgia while Bush was President and Bush didn't respond at all, Putin invades Crimea because his lackey Yanukovych was overthrown in Ukraine where Putin had complete influence over, Yanukovych is replaced by a pro western leader meaning Putin has lost influence over Ukraine and he invades Crimea which is a sliver of Ukraine. The sanctions imposed on Russia have plunged russia into a recession, the whole Ukraine scenario was definitely a net loss for the US. Putin has lost an allies in Yanukovych, the Castro brothers and Gadaffi since he took power.

China's a different scenario (they are far more powerful than Russia) but TPP and TTIP if passed will significantly increase US influence abroad and the US has taken pretty aggressive symbolic moves against China http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-34655845.

Minor foreign policy successes depending on your political leaning would be the Cuban thaw, global warming deals and also the killing of OBL (Mccain wouldn't have gotten OBL if he was President).

As for Iraq you're completely wrong, almost every ally to America immediately thought the Iraq war was a horrible decision and even the general public in Britain the biggest ally to the US in the war was very ambivalent to the war and didn't believe the WMD bs and had no respect for Bush - this interview fully illustrates how unpopular it was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7diGPVOWtI. Blair is now a pariah in Britain because he helped Bush open Pandora's box in the middle east by creating a vacuum for the terrorists, empowering Iran in the region by taking Hussein out, and really fucking up the situation with the Baath party.

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