Obama: American Leadership Across the Globe Has Not Been Perfect; We’ve Made Mistakes

‘We made mistakes, at times we lost sight of our ideals’

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OBAMA: "And American leadership across the globe wasn’t perfect. We made mistakes, at times we lost sight of our ideals. We had fierce arguments about Vietnam and we had fierce arguments about Iraq. But thanks to our leadership, a bipartisan leadership and the efforts of diplomats, and peace corps volunteers, and most of all thanks to the constant sacrifices of the men and women in uniform, we not only reduced the prospects of war between the world’s great powers, we not only won the Cold War, we helped spread a commitment to certain values and principles, like the rule of law, and human rights, and democracy."

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