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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Also, this: "Free riders aggravate me," Obama says at one point in the interview.
He just describes his own base! LOL!
The Limbaugh Theorum continues to prove itself every time the Narcissist-in-Chief points the finger of blame away from himself.
Well....I guess we can cross France and England off the lame-duck tour for 2016. Will be curious what countries he can visit for remainder of the year....maybe North Korea?
I just saw the BBC - the commentators are outraged at Obama.
And that finger he used to point at Cameron?
We used to call that “ giving the finger” not “ pointing the finger’
Nasty
So the Obama regime, through its meddling, turns Libya into Jihadi Gangster Central and somehow it’s the fault of Britain and France? Par for the course.
...anything for the foreigner to continue to destroy America’s relationships with it’s allies.
He’ll go to Cuba for the Fidel Castro funeral.
Libya is Obama’s fault, IMHO.
The death of 4 Americans at Benghazi is Hillary’s fault.
They should be - he’s a liar
If you read the original article from the Atlantic Obama kind of regrets listening to Clinton on invading.
The Trump effect!
Only 2% spending on Defense.. where have we heard that? But he's a copy cat excuse maker-finger pointer. Yeah, Europe can afford to be socialist because we pick up the defense price tag portion of their GDP.
Obama Clinton are super lying bastards .
They have a HUGE responsability in that MESS ( in Libya , Syria and as a consequence in Europe and in the world )
Have to say, a huge cat fight between them is a win-win.
Wonder if she’ll call him out on it? I’m gonna need popcorn.
“We came, we saw,he died!” Cackle,cackle,cackle.
Arrested adolescence, he never takes responsibility for anything, always blames others. I hope the next president is an adult.
It’s ALL Hillary and Obama’s fault!! He had given up all his weapons, and I guess H & O wanted his MONEY or else to install their Beloved Muslim Brotherhood in there like they did in Egypt....thank God the Egyptians REBELLED at the Muslim Brotherhood!!
Hard to square the mess in Libya with “don’t do anything stupid”.
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