{"id":15251,"date":"2016-04-12T05:40:23","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T05:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/?p=15251"},"modified":"2016-04-12T17:36:15","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T17:36:15","slug":"obama-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/obama-mistake","title":{"rendered":"Obama Reveals His Worst Mistake As President"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"a6b39195b99473d6c9dd698db2668010\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:2px 0 2px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<center>\r\n\r\n<script type='text\/javascript'>\r\nfunction ShorterThan(widthMax) {\r\n                if (screen.width < widthMax) {return true;}  \r\n                else {return false}\r\n    }\r\nvar LimitWidth = 728\r\nvar MobileZoneID = 348996\r\nvar DesktopZoneID = 348995   \r\n<!--\/\/<![CDATA[\r\n   document.MAX_ct0 ='';\r\n   var m3_u = (location.protocol=='https:'?'https:\/\/cas.criteo.com\/delivery\/ajs.php?':'https:\/\/cas.criteo.com\/delivery\/ajs.php?');\r\n   var m3_r = Math.floor(Math.random()*99999999999);\r\n   document.write (\"<scr\"+\"ipt type='text\/javascript' src='\"+m3_u);\r\n   if (ShorterThan(LimitWidth)) {document.write (\"zoneid=\"+MobileZoneID);} else {document.write (\"zoneid=\"+DesktopZoneID);}\r\n   document.write(\"&nodis=1\");\r\n   document.write ('&cb=' + m3_r);\r\n   if (document.MAX_used != ',') document.write (\"&exclude=\" + document.MAX_used);\r\n   document.write (document.charset ? 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He has realized that his best accomplishment in the White House was &#8220;<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">saving the economy from a great depression<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8221; after the financial crisis in 2008.\u00a0Obama has also realized what the worst mistake of his presidency was: the 2011 U.S. intervention in Libya. The U.S. overthrew the Libyan dictator, Muammar Qaddafi, to stop him from slaughtering the people of Benghazi and set up a new, preferably democratic system. \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It didn\u2019t work,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d the president simply said.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>The U.S. plan of action<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Obama explained that at the time, it seemed like an intervention was necessary. He still does believe it was the right thing to do. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cThe social order in Libya has broken down. You have massive protests against Qaddafi. You\u2019ve got tribal divisions inside of Libya. Benghazi is a focal point for the opposition regime. And Qaddafi is marching his army toward Benghazi, and he has said, \u2018We will kill them like rats,\u2019\u201d the president recalled.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He believed that the U.S. planned out their plan of action well. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cSo we actually executed this plan as well as I could have expected: we got a UN mandate, we built a coalition, it cost us $1 billion\u2014which, when it comes to military operations, is very cheap. We averted large-scale civilian casualties, we prevented what almost surely would have been a prolonged and bloody civil conflict,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd despite all that, Libya is a mess.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15252\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15252\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15252\" src=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/obama-1200x630.jpg\" alt=\"source\" width=\"700\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/obama-1200x630.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/obama-1200x630-600x315.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/obama-1200x630-85x45.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15252\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegrafi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/obama-1200x630.jpg\">source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><strong>Where he thinks things went wrong<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Obama thought back to where everything went wrong, and he put a lot of the blame on the European governments for not following up. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI had more faith in the Europeans, given Libya\u2019s proximity, being invested in the follow-up<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,\u201d he said. Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president at the time, lost his job the following year. Obama also accused the British Prime Minister David Cameron of not paying attention and becoming \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">distracted by a range of other things.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d Another issue was the lack of understanding the internal dynamic in Libya. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cThe degree of tribal division in Libya was greater than our analysts had expected. And our ability to have any kind of structure there that we could interact with and start training and start providing resources broke down very quickly.\u201d Ultimately, Libya taught him an important lesson &#8211; \u201cThere is no way we should commit to governing the Middle East and North Africa. That would be a basic, fundamental mistake.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15256\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15256\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-15256\" src=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/3026383.jpeg\" alt=\"source\" width=\"720\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/3026383.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/3026383-600x337.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/3026383-85x48.jpeg 85w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15256\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rts.ch\/2011\/03\/18\/23\/02\/3026383.image?w=700&amp;h=393\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><strong>The UK and the US are still on good terms<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the president\u2019s remarks about Prime Minister Cameron went public, National Security Council spokesman Ned Price assured that the alliance between the UK and the US is still on good terms. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Prime Minister Cameron has been as close a partner as the president has had, and we deeply value the UK&#8217;s contributions<\/strong> <strong>on our shared national security and foreign policy objectives which reflect our special and essential relationship,&#8221; he said.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15254\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15254\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15254\" src=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/ping3.jpg\" alt=\"source\" width=\"700\" height=\"465\" 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