A new round of wide-ranging comments on his assorted wars in The Atlantic saw President Obama defending America’s involvement in the 2011 NATO-imposed regime change in Libya, saying he had a UN mandate and it only cost $1 billion, which “is very cheap.”
And while Obama conceded that Libya turned into a “mess” in the aftermath, he sought to shift blame for that onto Europe, particularly Britain and France, saying he had “more faith in the Europeans, given Libya’s proximity, being invested in the follow-up.”
He was particularly open about France’s involvement, saying then-President Nicholas Sarkozy wanted to brag about all the flights France was launching, dispute waiting until the US wiped out all air defenses in the country. Obama said allowing France to take credit for more than they actually did was a way to “purchase France’s involvement” in the war.
He also took shots at British Prime Minister David Cameron, who he said “stopped paying attention” in Libya after the war, and ended up “distracted by a range of other things,” as well as other unnamed nations who were pushing the US to act but didn’t “have any skin in the game.”
Obama is a lame duck. Sanders and Trump need to hang the fiascoes in Libya, Syria and Yemen around Clinton’s neck. She finally admitted that her support for the Iraq war was a mistake, a decade and almost a million lives later, but tries to dodge responsibility by claiming she only wanted to give Bush diplomatic leverage. If that is so, why did she repeat all of the lies about Saddam and vote for every war appropriation? This woman never learns, and generous gifts from Wall Street and the MIC ensure it.
Obama & Clinton are lucky nobody can send drones to the USA to kill them.
Europe can’t get the oil via Syria, so they’re going after Libya’s oil instead.
Using ISIS as an excuse to invade and plunder.
The UN mandate did not allow regime change in Libya.
Just prosecute them all.
Exactly what I’ve been saying since Obama’s inauguration, but the minute he said he would be looking forward not back, I knew that Obama, the establishment wannabe, would be joining the DC criminal class in their continued predation.
When Trump is elected, it will be his turn to solve the problem at the source, by putting them all in jail (Obama included). Vincent Bugliosi showed the way in his book “The prosecution on George W. Bush for murder”.
The blame game.Bomba bomba bo bomba, Obomba.
What a loser.
Europe can’t get the oil via Syria, so they’re going after Libya’s oil instead.
Using ISIS as an excuse to invade and plunder…
The mantra of the weakling and the loser: it’s always someone else’s fault.
This is proof once again that Obama’s primary motivation in life is “looking good.” As Norman Finkelstein has stated, Obama is a “stunning narcissist” – and narcissists can accept no blame for anything they do.
If you want to understand everything Obama does, remember this – and the fact that he has no views of his own, he merely does what he’s told by the rich elites in Chicago who funded his entire career.
That’s his job apparently, defend the establishment. Even though I get the impression he himself had no say in the Libyan affair. But I’m glad he went after the European empty suits. Maybe next time they’ll think twice about participating/encouraging in these debacles.