This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating.

Obviously I pray every day there's less casualty.

I wish I wasn't the war president. Who in the heck wants to be a war president? I don't.

In the future history will be made only by us.

This way of life is worth defending.

History will look back, and I'm fully prepared to accept any mistakes that history judges to my administration, because the president makes the decisions, the president has to take the responsibility.

For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.