How can a president's foreign policy be such an embarrassment before the world and him still seem so confident

"Russia bombed U.S.-backed rebels in Syria Wednesday and warned U.S. warplanes to stay away. Iran’s special Kudz forces sped across Iraq to join the Russians in Syria. The good news is, if President Obama loses one more country in the Middle East he ties the record set by the Ottoman Empire in 1917. "  Comedian Argus Hamilton

Obama Is Going to Get a U.S. Pilot Killed
. . . "In short, it appears that President Obama has deliberately degraded the prestige and power of the United States in the international arena, and specifically relative to Putin's Russia.

"President Putin isn't scared of President Obama.  He certainly doesn't respect him or the U.S.'s willingness to go to the mat for its own or its allies' interests.  His weakness on the world stage has emboldened Mr. Putin.  Putin has now become the prime actor in the fight against ISIS...at least as the world perceives him.  He also appears to represent the only world power deliberately protecting Christians from murder and mayhem.  President Obama, on the other hand, appears increasingly weak and ineffective."