Posted on 10/25/2011 9:51:17 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) -- President Barack Obama defended the U.S. role in bringing down Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi, rejecting assessments that the international coalition he helped assemble amounted to "leading from behind." "We lead from the front," he told late-night television host Jay Leno on Tuesday.
Laying out an argument for his emerging foreign policy doctrine, Obama distinguished the U.S. steps in Libya from the invasion and nine-year war in Iraq. He argued that by building a broad international alliance of European and Arab nations against Gadhafi, the United States saved American lives and money and achieved its goal.
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Obama should have admitted that in Libya we had Al Quaeda on our side, and not against us.
Certainly Al Quaeda wanted us to win. They just got another country.
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