Barack Hussein Obama was the 44th President of the United States, serving from 2009 to 2017 upon the expiration of his term by the 22nd Amendment. He is widely remembered with ending the United States's War in Iraq, the ending of the War in Afghanistan, the Pakistan War, ending the Great Recession, and building a larger coalition of support for the US within the world (particularly in the Muslim world). He is criticized for failing to end the war on drugs until after US National Guard forces had been deployed on the US Mexico border for three years, and for his inaction on Marijuana law, and Gay Rights.