Barack Obama actually said...

If we simply went in and deposed a dictator, or simply went in and cleared out the bad guys, that somehow peace and prosperity would automatically emerge, and that lesson we should have learned a long time ago.

Context

Interview with Jeffery Goldberg of The Atlantic

05/18/2015

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