Ed Morrissey at Hot Air has read Peter Baker’s NYT column so you don’t have to fight their paywall. He relays Baker’s reporting of an interaction between President Obama and his director of national intelligence, Dennis Blair. Morrissey quotes Baker as follows.
“When it came my turn to speak at this meeting,” Mr. Blair recalled, “I said, ‘Mr. President, you really just have one decision to make. It’s really important, but it’s only a single one. Are you going to tolerate Iran having a nuclear weapon or not?’” If no, he said, then that would prompt certain espionage and military options. If yes, then it would require ways to contain and deter a nuclear-armed Iran.
Obama hated this comment, and chewed out Blair. He later excluded Blair from subsequent meetings, and eventually fired him.
Spineless Obama had a third way to deal with Iran which resulted in his JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action) in which Iran agreed to delay the development of nukes. It was "kick the can down the road," stall for time and leave the by-then-much-worse problem for a later president to solve. Trump is that "later president" and now is the time.
I've seen the claim Obama was our worst president, I am inclined to think that is a bit too negative. He might be among the worst five, which would also include Carter and Biden.
