The entire absurd affair with the Philippines highlights two things.
1. Obama's "smart power" has weakened us so badly that not only Russia and China, but small countries that are by no means power players on the international stage, feel free to humiliate our incompetent leaders.
2. His policy of leading through appeasement has not repaired our relations with our allies. Instead it has fractured formerly stable relationships. Add on the obsession with pursuing left-wing agendas, instead of national security, as a national interest and utterly unnecessary crises, like the one taking place with the Philippines, or the troubles with Egypt, begin taking place.
Left-wing politics don't bring us unity. Instead they create division, both domestically and internationally.
Division, strife and chaos are Obama's true legacy, here and on the world stage, as is expressed fittingly in this Michael Ramirez cartoon.
