Obamas term, while - I guess - good domestically, was an unmitigated disaster globally. It’s been a long time since so many countries were destabilized and so much blood was shed.
Yeah, I'm struggling to think how far back we need to go before Obama to find another president under whose watch countries destabilized and blood was shed. Oh wait, what about the president right before that.
Whataboutism?
Yes absolutely. It's kind of a joke that Obama won a Nobel Peace Prize.
He needs to drone a few more Americans over seas to beat Obama
It'll be 10 years or more before we can really answer that question. Trump's talks could work out exactly as planned or they could trigger a nuclear war, or anything in between. Were Obama's calls on Egypt/Libya/Tunisa/... the right ones for the sake of the long term? It's hard to say we'll ever know for sure.
That's more about counterbalancing Iran in the region and is an "enemy-of-my-enemy" alliance of convenience. The ability to play Iraq and Iran against each other that used to exist went by the wayside when Saddam was toppled and got replaced with nothing.
Obama didn't really do much do justify his world peace prize. Surely getting this far deserves a little credit, no? Or are we all supposed to be of "everything Trump does is bad" line of thinking on here as well? (Looking at the down votes on my original comment, apparently so).
Does a guy who does unhinged and angry rants on Fox and Friends seem like someone who's in diplomatic control of the situation?
I don't think we have to wait any longer to say that Libya has been an unalloyed disaster. It hasn't cost the USA as much as e.g. Iraq. However, ours is not the relevant point of view on this, and our actions in Libya certainly have taken the cake in terms of a functioning, slowly-liberalizing authoritarian government (i.e., "a government") ruling in mostly peaceful fashion over mostly-content adequately-fed-and-doctored people being replaced with... utter omnicidal Mad-Max bedlam. Reporters don't go there anymore, so we have to infer how bad it is, from how many people are attempting to swim to Italy. We did this for no reason at all. The silly pretexts parroted at the time were flimsier than Saddam's putative WMDs.
Well, he's making a great showing at these peace talks and—wait, what's that? Apparently, I've been misinformed, and he's not at them at all.
Huh.
Quite a few leaders are giving Trump credit.
Because they all know the same thing: flattery works wonders on Trump.
It's hard to believe them when Trump was doing infantile stuff on Twitter about nuclear buttons.
Trump got a gold star for showing up because it costs those leaders literally nothing to pay him lip service, but I think that's it.