Quote from AAAintheBeltway:
What would you have had Bush do? Start a war with Iran and N. Korea? Because that was the only thing he didn't try. You seem to have conveniently forgotten that N. Korea was let out of the diplomatic box by Clinton via an idiotic agreement negotiated for us by Jimmy Carter, under which they supposedly gave up their nuclear program in exchange for a ton of money, but of course they kept it going.
In fairness, the S. Koreans were the biggest supporters of not coming down hard on the north. Still are, in fact. As for Iran, the entire "world community" insisted on negotiations with Iran and Bush dutifully went along. The negotiations, run by the europeans, dragged on for years, during which time the Iranians continued their nuclear program.
Obama has accomplished nothing. The Russians think he is a joke. Whatever they did, they did for their own reasons. As for N. Korea, they sank a S. Korean warship under obama. Under Bush, they did nothing remotely as provocative. Clearly they have contempt for Obama, and the Chinese probably are not at all adverse to their little goons showing Obama just how beholden he is to China.