Clinton , obama started wars trump and Carter did notClinton, Obama, Carter, Ford...none of 'em started wars.?uh...what?Trump was the only US, president for decades which did not start a war.
Obama didn't start any wars.. Syria was spiraling out of control from 2005 thru 2011.
Nor did Obama end any wars. He launched airstrikes or military raids in at least seven countries: Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan. He built secret drone bases and other facilities in Africa and the Middle East, and added troops and warships in the western Pacific. He also moved troops and equipment to eastern Europe.
Obama approved a NATO air campaign in Libya, exacerbating the civil war there and resulting in the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi. And then he withdrew from Libya, only to see the oil-rich country collapse in conflict and become a magnet for terrorist groups.
In 2014, Obama mocked the emergence of ISIS in Syria as being a minor threat compared with Al Qaeda. “If a JV team puts on Lakers uniforms, that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant,” he said. But that summer, when ISIS was spreading into areas we had already liberated, Obama was forced to rush U.S. troops back to Iraq and order a flurry of airstrikes to block further advances by the group. It wasn't until President Trump was elected that they were utterly destroyed.
Obama was smart to mock ISIS and make them small an unimportant.
Months and months before Obama supported NATO re: Libya ALL foreign oil companies and embassies had pulled out of Libya ... including the Chinese and Libyan refugees were pouring into Italy.
ISIS came out of Camp Bucca prison in Iraq in 2004. It became a finishing school for radicals and jihadis.
Trump didn't destroy ISIS. LOLOL.. He just brags a lot.
Like everything he tried, Obama's attempting to mock them was a failure. At the time he made his "JV team" comment, ISIS was confined to the immediate area of Iraq and Syria. In a little over a year later, the group has gone from obscurity to the world’s most brutal terrorist network One which was not only responsible for thousands of deaths in the Middle East but also linked to hundreds more in dozens of terrorist plots in Western countries.
By the end of Obama’s second term, the self-proclaimed Islamic State has conducted or inspired more than 140 terrorist attacks in 29 countries other than Iraq and Syria. Those attacks killed at least 2,043 people and injured thousands more.
Thanks to President Trump's brilliant military strategies and the American military power, we don't have to worry about them now. He destroyed their infrastructure and their ability to perform as a sovereign entity. ISIS will never be able to rebuild its political and economic structure, and it didn't take large deployments of American troops to do that.
ISIS showed up in Syria in August 2011.. 6 million Syrians fled Mehr Assad's barrel bombing rampage and ISIS rushed in to fill the vacuum.
During the Syrian Civil War, which began in 2011, the U.S. initially supplied the rebels of the Free Syrian Army with non-lethal aid—including food rations and pickup trucks—but quickly began providing training, money, and intelligence to selected Syrian rebel commanders.