It’s hard to blame Obama for this one. He was in a coma for a long time.
The kid made a poor decision to go to North Korea in the first place, so he’s primarily responsible for his own fate.
That said, people seem to overlook the fact that Kim Jong-Un is most likely responsible for his death.
I give him a pass for going there. First off he was 22, probably not too hip to what was going on in the real world, and second, he was scammed into going there by these North Korean scam artists in China who told him it was perfectly safe. And from what I read their advertisements were directly aimed at young people with the slogan “The place your parents don’t want you to go to” Something like that, it was a fishing expedition by the Norks solely to get young Americans in there to kidnap and use as bargaining chips. My theory is they picked the tallest, best looking guy there to create the most emotional response, and they picked him. As far as I’m concerned though, this is an act of war. This is a foreign government kidnapping our citizen and killing him. What’s the difference if they shot off a nuke towards the USA and killed 100,000 in San Diego? There’s no difference except in numbers. In both cases US citizens died on US soil directly as a result of the actions of North Korea. Personally, I would inform China that if they do not do something to get this fat f**k out of power, that there would be war. China does not want to go to war.