Minor correction: Obama said his foreign policy mantra is “don’t do stupid shit.”
Via NRO:
Hillary Clinton derided President Obama’s famous, if unofficial, foreign-policy mantra as unworthy of a great nation.
“Great nations need organizing principles, and ‘Don’t do stupid stuff’ is not an organizing principle,” Clinton, who served as secretary of state during Obama’s first term, told The Atlantic. […]
. . . ”He went further, telling the dozen or so reporters that what he favored was a judicious use of American power, and that his primary concern was not to get the country embroiled in situations from which it might take a decade to extract ourselves. He offered up an oddly sophomoric mantra for his foreign policy: “Don’t do stupid s***.”