02/09/2009
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"The lesson of these wars is that regime change does not work."
"The AUMF from 9/11 had nothing to do with people in Somalia."
"Let us do not support the bad ones, but let us not presume enough that if we topple them that in the vacuum Thomas Jefferson is going to arise, because it never seems to happen."
"the policies you have advocated and Joe Biden has advocated and, frankly, John Bolton has advocated this idea of regime change has been a disaster for the Middle East."