I am the last person in the world to defend Obama, but he didn't even need to lift a finger here - and the fair charge against him is that he didn't. The growth in debt and defense spending corruption was already built into the budget.
The other fair charge against Obama is that Arab spring was just as stupid and just as ill-founded as the Iraq war was. But it was the corrupt neo-cons who invented the whole thing.
There is no excuse for what Bush/Cheney did to America and they should be the first heads on pikes outside the Hall of Conservatism to remind folks what utter betrayal of principal looks like.
coughObamacarecough
I think Barack and friends, BTW, allowed ISIS to grow - to effect “change” in the Middle East.
And they sure did that. And I think that cost us a lot of money (and some lives) as well.
They could have slaughtered them in Iraq when they were in caravans. Some A-10’s and Apaches could have made short work of most of them.
He was here to destroy and destroy he did.