Posted on 03/11/2016 1:01:08 AM PST by Trumpinator
Obama points finger at Britain, France over Libya chaos
Published March 11, 2016 FoxNews.com
President Barack Obama has strongly criticized the leaders of Great Britain and France for their policy toward Libya after the 2011 overthrow of dictator Muammar Qaddafi, saying that he was mistaken to believe the U.S.' European allies would be "more invested in the follow-up" to Qaddafi's fall.
Obama made the remarks in an interview with The Atlantic magazine. The criticisms of British Prime Minister David Cameron, in particular, are some of the strongest of a sitting U.K. leader by a sitting president.
In the interview, Obama calls the situation in Libya a "mess" in part because he says Cameron became "distracted by a range of other things."
"When I go back and I ask myself what went wrong, there's room for criticism, because I had more faith in the Europeans," Obama says.
The president also criticized then-French President Nicolas Sarkozy for being too eager to take credit for the intervention that overthrow Qaddafi, who was killed by rebel forces in October 2011.
"Sarkozy wanted to trumpet the flights he was taking in the air campaign," Obama said, "despite the fact that [the U.S.] had wiped out all the air defences and essentially set up the entire infrastructure."
Obama also said that he had warned Cameron that the so-called "special relationship" between Britain and the U.S. would end if the London government did not commit to spending 2 percent of its GDP on defense.
"Free riders aggravate me," Obama says at one point in the interview.
A spokeswoman for Cameron told Sky News that the prime minister still believes intervention in Libya was "absolutely the right thing to do." ----> Continued
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I do believe that if Castro did pass before the end of the year....he would go down and attend. It’d be part of his legacy episode and historians would spend decades trying to spin this type of stupidity.
The funny thing is that it turned out just the way he and VJ planned.
More power and room for the jihadist to spread their terror networks.
Obama regime
Did much the same to Chicago- I would call Chicago a trial run /semi sarcasm
He is just completely disassociated from reality.
What liberal progressive socialist commie parasites do best they point fingers. He’s trying to untarnished his legacy, sorry Charley you bought it, ITS OBAMAS FAULT
I hope the Europeans unload on Obama. Trump-style.
The UK already spends 2% of its GDP on defense. What the hell is BHO talking about?
“Free riders aggravate me,” Obama says at one point in the interview.
well he really hates everyone he enables doesn’t he..
what a pathetic pos potus..
Liar in chief..
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The cackles of death from the canckled one.
Nothing is his fault, ever!
Cameron has behaved like a jr. high school girl at a boy band concert whenever he interacts with BHO. Maybe this will wake him up.
Albeit it is too late, I wish the Brits would come up with the real birth certificate for this clown from their former colony Kenya.
In my old neighborhood, Obama would be known as a gold plated As.h..e.
‘But he’s a copy cat excuse maker-finger pointer.’
That would be my point if I had one.
Typical liberal leftist, blaming others.
What an utter doorknob. Doing his best to make ones like Jimmy Carter, Franklin Pierce, and James Buchanan look like Washington, Lincoln, and Reagan by comparison.
A typical Dindu Nuffin...somebody else did it...
The World knows the difference between you and the People of the United States.
You are a Lying Weaselly F***Pig.
Attempting to drive a Wedge between the US and the U.K. Will not work.
We all had the measure of you when you returned the Bust of Churchill.
Just slip off quietly back into the Stinking Swamp from which you oozed.
Mind the Door Handle on the Way out ,A***Hole.
The Rocky movies were Fiction.
It’s better to deal with the REAL world.
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