Thursday, June 2, 2016

Obama Makes Mistakes

Not in action, of course. But in relying on unreliable other countries.
“In terms of foreign policy, I’ve said this before, we decided to go in as part of a broader coalition, into Libya, to make sure that this guy [Colonel Muammar] Gaddafi, who had been state-sponsoring terrorism, did not go in and start slaughtering his own people,” Obama told PBS NewsHour on Wednesday at the Lerner Theatre in Elkhart, Indiana. “We succeeded and saved tens of thousands of lives, but I did all too much counting on other countries to then stabilize and support the government formation [in Libya] and now it is a kind of a mess.”

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“I have to tell you, every day, you know, I make some mistake. Fortunately, most of them aren’t that big. Sometimes, you just make, use, your best judgment because you’re working with probabilities. You don’t know the perfect answer. If something’s easy, it does not reach my desk,” he said.

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“Every day, when I wake up, I’m focused on how I could make your lives better, how I could protect the American people and increase your prosperity,” Obama said.

“At the end of the day, I can always say honestly that I did my best.”

  RT
Arrogance to rival George W.

If I could like this man any less at this point, it would be difficult.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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