Obama is the first president in American history to serve two full
terms in office with the nation at war. This includes the continued
bloodletting in Afghanistan and Iraq, the bombing of Libya, the
six-year-long war for regime change in Syria, and support for the
Saudi-led destruction of Yemen. A recent survey reported that in 2016,
US Special Operations forces were deployed in 138 nations, or 70 percent
of the countries of the world.
The “wars of the 21st century,” begun under Bush and expanded under
Obama, have killed more than a million people and driven millions more
from their homes, producing the worst refugee disaster since the Second
World War. Obama’s “pivot to Asia” has inflamed tensions from the South
China Sea to India and Pakistan. The current president will leave the
White House as NATO troops deploy to Eastern Europe in the midst of an
anti-Russia war hysteria stoked by the media and the Democratic Party.
Obama is the “drone” president, supervising the killing of some 3,000
people in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and Libya by means of unmanned
aerial vehicles, along with several thousand more in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
-- Joseph Kishore, "Obama's legacy of war, repression and inequality" (WSWS).