Obama Says He Is Improving the World He asserts: “wherever we have been involved over the last several years, I think the outcome has been better because of American leadership.”

Source: http://ift.tt/1lYl1ah - Thursday, January 01, 2015

Eric Zuesse U.S. President Barack Obama said in a December 30th Oval Office interview with Steve Inskeep of National Public Radio , that, “wherever we have been involved over the last several years, I think the outcome has been better because of American leadership.” This statement from him was part of his answer when Inskeep asked whether the President had regrets about “overthrowing the Gadhafi regime” in Libya. Obama answered: “We are hugely influential; we're the one indispensable nation. But when it comes to nation-building, when it comes to what is going to be a generational project in a place like Libya or a place like Syria or a place like Iraq, we can help, but we can't do it for them.” In other words: the Libyan people failed, and the Syrian people failed, and the Iraqi people failed, according to America’s President — but he himself and his predecessor Bush did not fail by bombing those countries under false pretenses as they did. Read more » Original post blogged on b2evolution .

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