I’d say Bush counter-punched global terror of radical Islam; Obama doesn’t recognize the notion of “radical Islam,” so what he’s doing there is anybody’s guess. Unless he’s an adherent of an Islamic sect that is fighting for preeminence over the Taliban.
Bush “counterpunched” us into two trillion dollar wars. One o them made Sadr a kingmaker, the other put a corrupt Islamist in power. By doing so, he effectively let Bin Laden bleed us dry through rope a dope.