Barack Obama: “This approach will provide stronger, smarter, and swifter defenses of American forces and America's allies.”

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…

I am very happy to see a ceasefire. And I’m hopeful that it holds.

The success of this experiment was never a given.

While we are non-partisan, we are not value-neutral. We have a point of view.