Sent Seals into Pakistan to kill Osama Bin Laden which GW was afraid to do
:shrug: that is incorrect. We simply didn't locate him prior to Obama attaining office.
Drone strikes in Yemen and other places where terrorists lie
Actually his administration has severely restricted the use of the military and micromanaged the living crap out of commanders.
And that's not cpwill sayin it - it's three of his own Secretaries of Defense.
Extensive military action in Libya, Somalia and Pakistan
You have an interesting definition of "extensive".
Led from behind and didn't put troops in Libya.
Didn't put troops in Pakistan except for a single raid to get the most wanted man in the world (which he deserves credit for, but which is hardly "conservative")
Launched a raid into Somalia to rescue American hostages, but lobbed a couple of missiles instead of deploying regular rotations of troop echelons.
None of these are extensive. They are, in fact, emblematic of precisely the opposite drive of this administration - minimal force necessary to keep a problem from becoming a complete nightmare, so that you can leave it for the next administration to handle.
THe dude is far from a peacenik.
He's been a solid left-winger on foreign policy from his initial apology tour, to "leading from behind" to withdrawing (woops) from Iraq, to pulling away from Israel, to giving Iran everything it wanted in negotiations.
It was a Republican plan hatched by the Heritage Foundation and implemented in Massachusetts by a GOP governor.
No, it was written by Democrats, edited by Democrats, voted on by Democrats, and signed by Democrats. It was as liberal as they could possibly yank it and still get
Democrats to vote for it.
From the horse's mouth and the
Left and the
Right.