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US President Barack Obama admitted that the biggest misstep of his presidency was failing to plan the aftermath of the NATO-led intervention in the crisis-torn Libya.
"Probably failing to plan for the day after what I think was the right thing to do in intervening in Libya," Obama told the Fox News channel in an interview broadcast on Sunday, commenting on his worst mistake during two presidential terms.
The US leader added that the state of affairs in Libya after the 2011 toppling of the country's leader Muammar Gaddafi was a "mess."
Libya has been in a state of turmoil since the 2011 Arab Spring movement, which later led to a civil war and the overthrow of Gaddafi by Western-supported Islamic extremists.
The Obama administration backed the use of NATO air power in Libya to ensure that rebels topple the then leader after a 2011 revolt. Since Gaddafi's death the influence of extremist Islamist groups in the country has steadily grown.
we paid too much attention to the deal with Egypt to protect the generals from their angry young men now jobless after being returned by Libya and scheming to put in place the elaborate set up to lure the genuine opposition party into the trap of seeming democratic elections to eliminate opposition. We called it Egyptian Spring.
Libya's money is safely stashed in EU and US banks so not really any emergency; just a bit of tweaking here and there. We definitely want to keep the EU returnees from making the same right turn into Libya the ISIS did as there is a significant population gap all along the N African front due to the missing 3 million Jews. Now that we are worried about. EU planned expansion into N Africa might have hit a snag but probably nothing a few million tons of ammo and significant drone overflights and targeting the population for sniper elimination wont cure. World medicine for the globe, economic WAR.