I don ' t think it ' s shameful to blame Obama for ISIS . You don ' t have to agree with the statement and you can adamantly disagree , but calling it shameful is a willfully denial that Obama ' s foreign policy in the middle east has been in generous terms woefully unsuccessful and at worst a disaster . Do I think Obama as a representative of the US to the global population been generally a positive impact ? Absolutely . Do I think that Obama is generally a good guy with trying to put in his best effort to improve our country as well as global stabilization ? 100 % yes . But one could make a good argument that the power vacuum left behind in Iraq after Obama decided not to sign a Status of Forces Agreement with the Iraqi government along with essentially funding multiple sides in the Syrian conflict , many who were either sympathetic to ISIS or outright became ISIS , and the general feeling within the middle east of the enormous rise in Drone attacks that injured countless civilians , all played a very integral part in either outright cause of ISIS to be created , or for the general population to be sympathetic to their cause . Do I agree with this logic and train of thought ? Not totally . But to dismiss it and call it shameful is just as shameful and a total ignorance of what the reality is of thousands of innocent civilians being killed , tortured , maimed , or living in fear . Enough with the deifying of Obama . He was a good President and deserves praise for his efforts . But stop trying to make him something he ' s not and stop judging anyone who has a different viewpoint or is critical of him is somehow shameful for looking critically at , outside of global warming , the biggest and most challenging issue our modern civilization has yet to solve .