Barack Obama: “The United States stands ready to work with the international community to support the people of Sri Lanka in this time…”

She knew she was going to mess me up, and she did it anyway."

We’ve now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, you know, put enormous strain on our military. A lot of people have died. And it feels like we’re back where we were before we started the war, except maybe a little bit worse…

The success of this experiment was never a given.

America is currently experiencing anger and vision but we are looking for fairness and common sense and mutual respect."