War uninterrupted, under Barack O'Bush. Or is it George Obama?

The best way to settle this: we will call them Tweedledum and Tweedledee!

Up until the 2008 elections, progressives were furious with President Bush for dragging the country not only into Iraq, but into a War on Terror.  Candidate, Senator Obama promised hope and change.  "We are the ones we have been waiting for" the messiah proclaimed.

That was the story then.

Three years later?

We are very much there in Afghanistan.

We will continue to have a significant presence in Iraq for generations more, it seems like. 
Afghanistan? Better not to even talk about it anymore.
The drone attacks in Pakistan have vastly increased under Obama

As if these are not enough to worry us over the what has turned out to be the third term of President Bush, the War on Terror has been increased in its geographic reach

According to The Nation:

As part of its expanding counterterrorism program in Somalia, the CIA also uses a secret prison buried in the basement of Somalia’s National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters, where prisoners suspected of being Shabab members or of having links to the group are held. Some of the prisoners have been snatched off the streets of Kenya and rendered by plane to Mogadishu. While the underground prison is officially run by the Somali NSA, US intelligence personnel pay the salaries of intelligence agents and also directly interrogate prisoners.

I suppose the advantage that Obama has over Bush is this: as a constitutional law professor, Obama doesn't need any minions like Yoo to write legal briefs and make arguments in favor of his monarchy.

Thus, under O'Bush, we have expanded military operations in Yemen, Somalia, and Libya.

Would you then hypothesize that the US is more popular in the Arab World after the election of Obama, or Was Bush's America more popular?

Glenn Greenwald answers:

A new poll released today of six Arab nations -- Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Morocco -- contains even worse news on this front:

The hope that the Arab world had not long ago put in the United States and President Obama has all but evaporated.
Two and a half years after Obama came to office, raising expectations for change among many in the Arab world, favorable ratings of the United States have plummeted in the Middle East, according to a new poll conducted by Zogby International for the Arab American Institute Foundation.
In most countries surveyed, favorable attitudes toward the United States dropped to levels lower than they were during the last year of the Bush administration . . . Pollsters began their work shortly after a major speech Obama gave on the Middle East . . . Fewer than 10 percent of respondents described themselves as having a favorable view of Obama.

What's striking is that none of these is among the growing list of countries we're occupying and bombing.  Indeed, several are considered among the more moderate and U.S.-friendly nations in that region, at least relatively speaking.  Yet even in this group of nations, anti-U.S. sentiment is at dangerously (even unprecedentedly) high levels.

 Hey liberals, progressives, Democrats, whatever you call yourselves ... happy now?