” In fairness to Obama, Bush was not much better on that score.”
You mean “Islam is the religion of Peace” Bush? The one whose legacy is the smoking ruins of Eastern Christian communities from the Adriatic to the Iran/Iraq border?
“The other part of that strategy is to make sure nothing is done for the defense of the Christians in the Middle East.”
That has been the MO of the West since the 4th Crusade. Nothing much changes Alex.
Compared to Obama, Bush at least was ready to use force and that created fear in the militant islamists. The election of Obama emboldened them.
The West did fight the Turks after the 4th crusade, resulting in liberation of the Balkans from the Ottoman rule. Of course that was when Russia was still a part of the Western civilization. Even deeper in the Middle East, remember that the Levant was French and British colony, which guaranteed the Christian and other minorities a measure of protection. The colonial rule in Levant and Africa was the system that needs to be restored on some new level.