Who said Russia was looking for a nuclear war? I never said they were looking for one but I don't dismiss the possibility of one happening if things escalate quickly due to miscalculation. The risk may be not be high but it's still there. Presidents can't afford to look weak otherwise they're toast. Anyway, just to get things back on track. It's not all about military action and I never claimed Clinton and Obama were perfect and didn't make any mistakes. I said I thought they were better Presidents than Bush snr George W Bush. Here is a consolidated historian rankings list on wiki which happens to be aligned with my view.
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I accept that comparing Presidents isn't easy given they operated in different eras with different threats and challenges. If I break it down to back to back Presidencies I believe that Clinton was a better President than Bush snr and that Obama was better than George W who IMO was by far the worst of the four. We'll never know how for example Bush jnr would have responded to Syria and Crimea. He was quite pally with Putin so maybe he would have told him to fill his boots given there was no oil or lucrative contracts up for grabs like there was in Iraq. Maybe the consequences would have been greater. We'll never know. What I do know is that Iraq was a war of choice and the biggest blemish on any President in my lifetime. A massive false flag operation that cost many innocent lives just to enable a shameless oil and lucrative contract grab for Bush and Cheney. I'm always open to persuasion but nothing I've read in the last couple of pages has changed my view so happy to agree to disagree.
