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Go tell me how many American lives or American taxpayer dollars were wasted in Libya or Syria, because while it isn't 0, it's a lot less than "thousands" and "trillions". The Middle East exploded during Obama's term because the economy was shit, most of the countries had decades of mismanagement, and the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan caused a surge in fundamentalism and sectarianism. A huge number of ISIS's Iraqi members came from clans discriminated against by the American occupation because of their loyalty to Saddam and some of these clans also lived in Syria. The occupation of Iraq was so poorly managed (like appointing people to crucial positions based on how much they donated to the Republican Party, disbanding the Iraqi military, banning every Baath Party member from public life, all sorts of shit like that) that it was inevitable it would go to shit the minute enough Americans left.
Saying Obama is equal to Bush in terms of bad foreign policy and wars is lunacy since so many problems in the 21st century Middle East was caused by GW Bush. It's like saying an arsonist who burns a house left standing by a wildfire is as bad as the arsonist who started the wildfire. It shouldn't even be a partisan debate, only the most diehard neocon or Obama Derangement Syndrome sufferer would think otherwise, but I guess you do believe in the WMD hoax which is one of the great fabrications in history.
Bush was worse but you've got that backwards. Bush burned down the house, Obama the forest. The rest of the Middle East was keeping the lid on with its secular strongman routine until Obama decided getting behind toppling anti-jihadi secular fascists was a great idea in 2011. Bush wanted none of that shit after fucking up thinking it was a good idea in Iraq. Nothing of consequence happened in Iraq after Bush left office until Obama decided to leave. Let's not mention how Obama sucking Iran's dick gave them the financial wherewithal to resuscitate Shiite jihadism to heights not even seen in the 80s. You're talking about a triple shitburger you had to eat 5 days a week vs a double shitburger you had to eat 6 days a week like the double shitburger routine was sooooooooooo much better. It's 15 shit patties down your craw a week vs 12.