Posted on 04/10/2016 1:29:20 PM PDT by PROCON
In his final year in office, President Obama has spent a significant amount of time emphasizing what he sees as his long list of accomplishments since 2008, but in an interview today he also admitted what he considers to be his "worst mistake."
"Probably failing to plan for, the day after, what I think was the right thing to do, in intervening in Libya," Obama said an interview with "Fox News Sunday."
The 2011 U.S.-backed intervention that helped topple Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi wound up thrusting the country into turmoil that has only spiraled downward since.
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He could of blamed it on Hillary.
Your FReeper suggestions?
“Letting Hillary run the Libya thing.”
Compromising too much with republicans?
This president, who they say, is really brilliant, even though, he uses, an excessive amount, of thoughtful, pauses, in simple sentences.
Be elected.
Not committing suicide January 21, 2009.
Not liking girls
Regret #1 “Waking up Each and Every Morning”.
He still thinks “intervening” in Libya was the right thing.
You can’t fix stupid.
“Failing to plan to intervene”? He CAUSED the Libyan meltdown.
This is from the same guy who railed and screamed for a timetable to leave Iraq.
As the recent former Sec. Defense interviews related Obama was and is an inexperienced executive who surrounded himself with inexperienced sycophants and yes men and accordingly made and continues to make many mistakes. But for the fact that he is black, he never would have been elected in the first place.
Your FReeper suggestions?
My suggestion is that Libya is not the only intervention where Obama's action ..."wound up thrusting the country into turmoil that has only spiraled downward since."
Pretty much every foreign action and most domestic actions have resulted in this death spiral.
Fast-tracking “only” 10,000 Syrian “refugees” into the US, rather than a million?
“Being born?”
He was a mistake from the get-go.
“Compromising too much with republicans?”
That’s a good one.
“Errr, ahhh, I i i, errr, my biggest mistake, which is actually my predecessor’s fault, was not completing the fundamental transformation of the United States. But don’t worry, I can still can achieve this goal for the betterment of the world.”
God doesn't forget stuff like that.
His worst mistake was becoming President.
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