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It sounds like you were the one checked-out, I guess if news isn't fed to you, you have no idea how to find out what happened.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/01/03/obamas-top-50-accomplishments-revisited/
His presidency did largely coincide with the timing of when drone strikes were starting to be possible to do.
https://www.businessinsider.com/president-obamas-super-aggressive-drone-war-in-one-graphic-2013-12
Would it be better to have used soldiers or missiles for those attacks instead? If you had the choice between sending people to do that job and some of them dying, or sending expensive missiles and killing a bunch of extra people, what's the downside of drones comparatively?
Really, the main downside of his presidency is that he did such a good job, it pissed off racist people.
You sure typed a lot to not refute one thing I said. Your only argument is, "Well, we HAD to kill those people somehow!" Very telling.
Who is "we"? I have nothing to do with the states.
And yes, those wars were indeed still gonna continue happening at that moment in time, no matter who got elected. And some of those words I typed were links you maybe didn't click, cuz they very much do refute your points. And include how many wars he wound down and/or ended during his time.