Reply To: Obama vs. Putin: Who is the better president for his country?

benignuman: From the moral examples you gave between Obama=Bad and Putin=Worse, you are saying while Obama is morally better than Putin but that Obama is still morally “bad”.

But to take your Syrian example, you criticize Putin for supporting the Syrian government, yet it was Putin’s Syrian intervention that gave the government the ability to begin defeating the Islamic State, which you surely agree is far worse than the government. Furthermore, even the rebels (Free Syrian Army, Nusra Front, etc.) have engaged in war crime atrocities. So it is difficult to assert that Russia’s actions in Syria made matters worse.

It was Obama’s actions in Iraq, and lack thereof in Syria, that made way for the birth of the Islamic State in its current form in Iraq and Syria.

Regarding Iran, Russian know-how and technology assistance began before Putin came to power in Russia. Additionally, France bears as much blame in that regard.

You also didn’t acknowledge Obama’s support of the coup in Ukraine that overthrew the government that preceded the civil war there.