Fact-check: Obama's war speech on Syria

Obama:

My fellow Americans, for nearly seven decades the United States has been the anchor of global security. This has meant doing more than forging international agreements. It has meant enforcing them. The burdens of leadership are often heavy, but the world's a better place because we have borne them. 

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From Wounded Knee to Libya, a century of US military operations.

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