Most of us didn't like the Magical Apology Tour either, although after he got that out of his system he's been pretty good at foreign policy. The intent of Fast and Furious was anything but good - arming the drug cartels to justify disarming Americans - but I'm not convinced that Obama was behind that. The BATFE (which evidently stands for some arcane spelling of bat shit crazy assholes) has done similar if not quite so egregious rogue operations under several Presidents not nearly so amenable to gun control and may well have done this on their own. Even Holder, while he clearly lied or was honestly if incompetently mistaken about when he knew, might have been briefed well into the operation and unaware of the true extents of the operation. I can see him being told essentially "We're monitoring the movement of legally purchased guns to the cartels in Mexico" rather than "We're facilitating the movement of legally purchased guns, some of which we bought, to the cartels in Mexico, and when people get killed by them we'll have ammo for gun control." May well have nothing to do with Obama, and in any case it's primarily about domestic gun control, not foreign policy. (Proof of this being that the Mexican authorities were not briefed or involved and the BATFE had no assets to track the guns inside Mexico.)