Land Mines

Ex-President Obama left quite a number of land mines for his successor, Trump, to try to dance around:

- North Korea's missiles and atomic weaponry threats

- Iran on a clear path to nuclear weapons

- Poor economic and personal income growth

- Worldwide Jihadi terrorism

- China's South China Sea expansionism

- Immigration quagmire ... caused by lax enforcement

- Failed Muslim states: Libya, Somalia, Afghanistan,Yemen

- Hollowed-out U.S. national defense forces

- Over-regulation

- Poor relations with Israel

- Cybersecurity threats from around the world

- Unsustainable welfare/government transfer programs

- Incomplete ISIS and Syrian conflict resolutions

- Burdensome fiscal deficits and deadly national debt levels

- Huge international trade/balance of payments imbalances

- Obamacare in extremis

- Deteriorating race relations

- Crumbling national infrastructure

- National security and political leak torrents

- Increasing crime rates in many of our cities


But to Obama's credit, we were adored by most Western European leaders ... particularly due to his stance on global warming.

Afterward: There are only three reasons why Obama would have left all these problems for his follow-on ... indifference, incompetence ot by design. Historians will sort this all out, but my vote goes to the last choice.