Take your blinder off! The US is better on nearly every front from the total mess Obama inherited. Yes religious and political extremism are rising across the world and some world political leaders are nasty players, but let's get real and recognize the limits to power, even when you have the greatest military machine the world has ever seen. Obama is cautious and measured in his foreign responses, which many like. Bush was a hot headed cowboy and the reverberations from the disastrous Iraq War continue to destabilize major parts of the world today. Claims that Obama allowed for ISIS are ridiculous. The intensely partisan Shiite government elected by the long suppressed but dominant Shiite population did that. They found Shiite Iran to be a much preferred ally. Disastrous policy decisions can reverberate for decades with no easy fast solutions. Easy fast solutions tend to often just make things worse. It is sometimes a lot easier to get into a mess than to get out of it.