Victor Davis Hanson summarizes the world's measure of Obama:
Obama has earned a reputation for predictable equivocation, rhetorically eloquent, but not decisive, sermonizing without consequences, judgmental but not muscular — as we saw from serial but meaningless deadlines to Iran, simultaneous surges and withdrawal dates in Afghanistan, pink-lines in Syria, leading from behind in Libya, unpunished killers in Benghazi, flip-flop-flip in Egypt, failed flirtations with the Muslim Brotherhood and the new Ottomanism, and reset reset with Putin — all at a time of massive defense cuts, the so-called pivot, Anglo-American dissolution, and loud proclamations about a new, reduced U.S. profile abroad.The result is that our rivals and enemies seem more rash than at any time in the last 15 years, our allies never more bewildered. . .
And thus the world has become more dangerous than ever as enemies likely become emboldened to test U.S. resolve in any number of places in the world. I don't think Obama's Syria initiative as proposed will erase world impressions of Obama.