[Red Slinger]

Criticizing any Presidential administration for not making the situation in Iraq better is not really fair or accurate. Once the invasion took place without an exit strategy the damage was done and their really was no right way to deal with it from a U.S. perspective. The best you could hope for was to minimize the amount of damage done.

I think the Obama administration was relatively pragmatic with Iraq, Al Queda and ISIS. They built multi-national alliances, created an intelligence network, ramped down the hyperbole about the scary Muslims and used drones whenever their network discovered a target. I keep hearing that the Obama foreign policy was the weak point of his administration but what would have been the correct way to handle it? I don't think the correct way existed under the circumstances.

So, again I don't think you can necessarily criticize a U.S. Presidential administration for not rapidly making things better in such a volatile region. You can certainly criticize them for making it worse though. I don't think Obama made it worse with his "let's keep the lid on this" strategy. Frankly I don't think Trump has made it worse either. As a matter of fact, flexing a little muscle may be just what is needed to keep Putin off balance. North Korea, however, is a whole different story.