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Africa North
Barack Obama admits 'mistakes' in Libya
2015-09-30
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] U.S. President Barack Obama
I inhaled. That was the point...
said on Monday the international community should have done more to avoid a leadership vacuum in Libya, which has been in disarray since the fall of Muammar Qadaffy
...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years until he was ejected from the gene pool by his indignant citizens...
four years ago.

Obama told the United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
General Assembly the international community must work harder in future to ensure states do not implode.

The rapid descent of Libya into violent chaos was one of the most dramatic events in the "Arab Spring," the abrupt collapse of long-standing autocratic governments in a number of Arab countries in the face of popular protests.

"Even as we helped the Libyan people bring an end to the reign of a tyrant, our coalition could have and should have done more to fill a vacuum left behind," Obama said.

His rare acknowledgement of mistakes in Libya's transition came as the United Nations tries to negotiate an end to fighting between two rival governments and their armed backers which has pushed the country to the brink of collapse.

The U.N. General Assembly on Monday was dominated by discussion of the turmoil in Syria, which erupted after an uprising against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
. The United States and Russia have traded accusations about responsibility for the violence.

Russian President Vladimir Putin
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
blamed the chaos in the region, including in Libya, on the sudden removal of the old leaders, and said this was creating many recruits for the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
holy warrior group.
Posted by:Fred

#8  Obama, Cameron and Sarkozy committed a bloody crime in Libya. Theirs was not a noble cause. They did not create democracy. They never intended to do so. They had to know that only war and chaos could result from what they did.

The only decent thing to do when somebody starts spouting this type of disgusting, obvious and flagrant bullshit is to get up and walk out. The fact that nobody in the UN General Assembly actually did that tells me all I need to know about it. They're all just as bad as he is.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2015-09-30 11:56  

#7  JQC, that depends solely on WHAT this administration was trying to accomplish.

The cynic in me looks at this and thinks that they feel they have been wildly successful. They wanted the fundamental transformation from the most powerful and wealthy nation to one that is on an inescapable path to third world status and submission to Marxian Muslims.

Looks like they're getting there.
Posted by: AlanC   2015-09-30 10:00  

#6  The entire record of his administration looks like a huge series of mistakes.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-09-30 08:43  

#5  He really is a despicable slime ball isn't he?

Posted by: AlanC   2015-09-30 08:28  

#4  Obama told the United Nations General Assembly the international community must work harder in future to ensure states do not implode.

Unless, it's America, which he and his cabal have been working tirelessly to achieve.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-09-30 08:14  

#3  Next step in anti-Hillary campaign?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-09-30 05:40  

#2  "Even as we helped the Libyan people bring an end to the reign of a tyrant, our coalition could have and should have done more to fill a vacuum left behind," Obama said.

Literal translation:

Cause = "We helped"
Effect = "Vacuum left behind"
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-09-30 02:58  

#1  I'll just note / point out the bloody obvious that Obama did not admit he made a mistake; can't have that...
Posted by: Raj   2015-09-30 00:30  

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