U.S. President Barack Obama said the
worst mistake of his presidency was
failing to prepare for the aftermath
in Libya after the NATO-led
intervention toppled Libya leader
Moammar Gadhafi in 2011, leaving
the country in chaos.
Obama reflected on the highs and
lows of his two terms in the White
House in an interview with Fox
News.
He told Fox News' Chris Wallace that
his biggest mistake was "probably
failing to plan for the day after," but
he added that intervening in Libya to
protect civilians from the Gadhafi
regime was "the right thing to do."
After the Libyan strongman was
killed, months after the United States
and European nations launched
aerial attacks, the Middle Eastern
country was left in chaos that
continues to this day.
U.S. President Barack Obama, right,
speaks with University of Chicago law
professor David Strauss in Chicago,
Ill., April 7, 2016. Obama taught
constitutional law at the school for
over a decade.
Militias took over with two rival
parliaments and governments
forming and Libya became a major
departure point for migrants trying
to reach Europe, helping fuel the
continent's immigration crisis.
A United Nations-backed unity
government has arrived in the
capital Tripoli, but neither of the
rival parliaments has so far formally
backed the U.N.-brokered accord.
Views Libya as a 'mess'
Obama said he views Libya today as
a "mess," and told Atlantic magazine
in another interview that British
Prime Minister David Cameron
became "distracted by a range of
other things" after the Libyan
operation.
Obama also criticized former French
President Nicolas Sarkozy for
mishandling Libya after Gadhafi's
ouster.
Obama said his biggest
accomplishment during his seven-
plus years in office was "saving the
economy from a great depression,"
the 2008 and 2009 economic plunge
that was the worst in the country
since the 1930s.
U.S. President Barack Obama pauses
while speaking about his Supreme
Court nominee to students at the
University of Chicago Law School,
where Obama taught constitutional
law for over a decade, in Chicago,
April 7, 2016.
Millions of workers were laid off,
with many of them losing their
homes because they no longer had
the money to make mortgage
payments to banks, but the U.S.
economy remains as the world's
largest and the jobless rate has
returned to its historical norms.
Health care reform
Obama, who leaves office next
January, said the best day of his
presidency was the 2010
congressional passage of national
health care reforms that came to be
called Obamacare, changes that have
handed health insurance to millions
of people who were uninsured or
have made it affordable for them to
buy policies.
Most Republican opponents of the
Democratic president still denounce
Obamacare as an overreach of the
national government.
They have failed dozens of times in
trying to repeal it and been unable to
agree on a plan to replace it.
Obama said the worst day of his
presidency was visiting the small
Connecticut town of Newtown, two
days after the mass shooting at an
elementary school there in late 2012,
when a gunman killed 20 students
and six educators.
U.S. President Barack Obama said the
worst mistake of his presidency was
failing to prepare for the aftermath
in Libya after the NATO-led
intervention toppled Libya leader
Moammar Gadhafi in 2011, leaving
the country in chaos.
Obama reflected on the highs and
lows of his two terms in the White
House in an interview with Fox
News.
He told Fox News' Chris Wallace that
his biggest mistake was "probably
failing to plan for the day after," but
he added that intervening in Libya to
protect civilians from the Gadhafi
regime was "the right thing to do."
After the Libyan strongman was
killed, months after the United States
and European nations launched
aerial attacks, the Middle Eastern
country was left in chaos that
continues to this day.
U.S. President Barack Obama, right,
speaks with University of Chicago law
professor David Strauss in Chicago,
Ill., April 7, 2016. Obama taught
constitutional law at the school for
over a decade.
Militias took over with two rival
parliaments and governments
forming and Libya became a major
departure point for migrants trying
to reach Europe, helping fuel the
continent's immigration crisis.
A United Nations-backed unity
government has arrived in the
capital Tripoli, but neither of the
rival parliaments has so far formally
backed the U.N.-brokered accord.
Views Libya as a 'mess'
Obama said he views Libya today as
a "mess," and told Atlantic magazine
in another interview that British
Prime Minister David Cameron
became "distracted by a range of
other things" after the Libyan
operation.
Obama also criticized former French
President Nicolas Sarkozy for
mishandling Libya after Gadhafi's
ouster.
Obama said his biggest
accomplishment during his seven-
plus years in office was "saving the
economy from a great depression,"
the 2008 and 2009 economic plunge
that was the worst in the country
since the 1930s.
U.S. President Barack Obama pauses
while speaking about his Supreme
Court nominee to students at the
University of Chicago Law School,
where Obama taught constitutional
law for over a decade, in Chicago,
April 7, 2016.
Millions of workers were laid off,
with many of them losing their
homes because they no longer had
the money to make mortgage
payments to banks, but the U.S.
economy remains as the world's
largest and the jobless rate has
returned to its historical norms.
Health care reform
Obama, who leaves office next
January, said the best day of his
presidency was the 2010
congressional passage of national
health care reforms that came to be
called Obamacare, changes that have
handed health insurance to millions
of people who were uninsured or
have made it affordable for them to
buy policies.
Most Republican opponents of the
Democratic president still denounce
Obamacare as an overreach of the
national government.
They have failed dozens of times in
trying to repeal it and been unable to
agree on a plan to replace it.
Obama said the worst day of his
presidency was visiting the small
Connecticut town of Newtown, two
days after the mass shooting at an
elementary school there in late 2012,
when a gunman killed 20 students
and six educators.
U.S. President Barack Obama said the
worst mistake of his presidency was
failing to prepare for the aftermath
in Libya after the NATO-led
intervention toppled Libya leader
Moammar Gadhafi in 2011, leaving
the country in chaos.
Obama reflected on the highs and
lows of his two terms in the White
House in an interview with Fox
News.
He told Fox News' Chris Wallace that
his biggest mistake was "probably
failing to plan for the day after," but
he added that intervening in Libya to
protect civilians from the Gadhafi
regime was "the right thing to do."
After the Libyan strongman was
killed, months after the United States
and European nations launched
aerial attacks, the Middle Eastern
country was left in chaos that
continues to this day.
U.S. President Barack Obama, right,
speaks with University of Chicago law
professor David Strauss in Chicago,
Ill., April 7, 2016. Obama taught
constitutional law at the school for
over a decade.
Militias took over with two rival
parliaments and governments
forming and Libya became a major
departure point for migrants trying
to reach Europe, helping fuel the
continent's immigration crisis.
A United Nations-backed unity
government has arrived in the
capital Tripoli, but neither of the
rival parliaments has so far formally
backed the U.N.-brokered accord.
Views Libya as a 'mess'
Obama said he views Libya today as
a "mess," and told Atlantic magazine
in another interview that British
Prime Minister David Cameron
became "distracted by a range of
other things" after the Libyan
operation.
Obama also criticized former French
President Nicolas Sarkozy for
mishandling Libya after Gadhafi's
ouster.
Obama said his biggest
accomplishment during his seven-
plus years in office was "saving the
economy from a great depression,"
the 2008 and 2009 economic plunge
that was the worst in the country
since the 1930s.
U.S. President Barack Obama pauses
while speaking about his Supreme
Court nominee to students at the
University of Chicago Law School,
where Obama taught constitutional
law for over a decade, in Chicago,
April 7, 2016.
Millions of workers were laid off,
with many of them losing their
homes because they no longer had
the money to make mortgage
payments to banks, but the U.S.
economy remains as the world's
largest and the jobless rate has
returned to its historical norms.
Health care reform
Obama, who leaves office next
January, said the best day of his
presidency was the 2010
congressional passage of national
health care reforms that came to be
called Obamacare, changes that have
handed health insurance to millions
of people who were uninsured or
have made it affordable for them to
buy policies.
Most Republican opponents of the
Democratic president still denounce
Obamacare as an overreach of the
national government.
They have failed dozens of times in
trying to repeal it and been unable to
agree on a plan to replace it.
Obama said the worst day of his
presidency was visiting the small
Connecticut town of Newtown, two
days after the mass shooting at an
elementary school there in late 2012,
when a gunman killed 20 students
and six educators.
U.S. President Barack Obama said the
worst mistake of his presidency was
failing to prepare for the aftermath
in Libya after the NATO-led
intervention toppled Libya leader
Moammar Gadhafi in 2011, leaving
the country in chaos.
Obama reflected on the highs and
lows of his two terms in the White
House in an interview with Fox
News.
He told Fox News' Chris Wallace that
his biggest mistake was "probably
failing to plan for the day after," but
he added that intervening in Libya to
protect civilians from the Gadhafi
regime was "the right thing to do."
After the Libyan strongman was
killed, months after the United States
and European nations launched
aerial attacks, the Middle Eastern
country was left in chaos that
continues to this day.
U.S. President Barack Obama, right,
speaks with University of Chicago law
professor David Strauss in Chicago,
Ill., April 7, 2016. Obama taught
constitutional law at the school for
over a decade.
Militias took over with two rival
parliaments and governments
forming and Libya became a major
departure point for migrants trying
to reach Europe, helping fuel the
continent's immigration crisis.
A United Nations-backed unity
government has arrived in the
capital Tripoli, but neither of the
rival parliaments has so far formally
backed the U.N.-brokered accord.
Views Libya as a 'mess'
Obama said he views Libya today as
a "mess," and told Atlantic magazine
in another interview that British
Prime Minister David Cameron
became "distracted by a range of
other things" after the Libyan
operation.
Obama also criticized former French
President Nicolas Sarkozy for
mishandling Libya after Gadhafi's
ouster.
Obama said his biggest
accomplishment during his seven-
plus years in office was "saving the
economy from a great depression,"
the 2008 and 2009 economic plunge
that was the worst in the country
since the 1930s.
U.S. President Barack Obama pauses
while speaking about his Supreme
Court nominee to students at the
University of Chicago Law School,
where Obama taught constitutional
law for over a decade, in Chicago,
April 7, 2016.
Millions of workers were laid off,
with many of them losing their
homes because they no longer had
the money to make mortgage
payments to banks, but the U.S.
economy remains as the world's
largest and the jobless rate has
returned to its historical norms.
Health care reform
Obama, who leaves office next
January, said the best day of his
presidency was the 2010
congressional passage of national
health care reforms that came to be
called Obamacare, changes that have
handed health insurance to millions
of people who were uninsured or
have made it affordable for them to
buy policies.
Most Republican opponents of the
Democratic president still denounce
Obamacare as an overreach of the
national government.
They have failed dozens of times in
trying to repeal it and been unable to
agree on a plan to replace it.
Obama said the worst day of his
presidency was visiting the small
Connecticut town of Newtown, two
days after the mass shooting at an
elementary school there in late 2012,
when a gunman killed 20 students
and six educators.
U.S. President Barack Obama said the
worst mistake of his presidency was
failing to prepare for the aftermath
in Libya after the NATO-led
intervention toppled Libya leader
Moammar Gadhafi in 2011, leaving
the country in chaos.
Obama reflected on the highs and
lows of his two terms in the White
House in an interview with Fox
News.
He told Fox News' Chris Wallace that
his biggest mistake was "probably
failing to plan for the day after," but
he added that intervening in Libya to
protect civilians from the Gadhafi
regime was "the right thing to do."
After the Libyan strongman was
killed, months after the United States
and European nations launched
aerial attacks, the Middle Eastern
country was left in chaos that
continues to this day.
U.S. President Barack Obama, right,
speaks with University of Chicago law
professor David Strauss in Chicago,
Ill., April 7, 2016. Obama taught
constitutional law at the school for
over a decade.
Militias took over with two rival
parliaments and governments
forming and Libya became a major
departure point for migrants trying
to reach Europe, helping fuel the
continent's immigration crisis.
A United Nations-backed unity
government has arrived in the
capital Tripoli, but neither of the
rival parliaments has so far formally
backed the U.N.-brokered accord.
Views Libya as a 'mess'
Obama said he views Libya today as
a "mess," and told Atlantic magazine
in another interview that British
Prime Minister David Cameron
became "distracted by a range of
other things" after the Libyan
operation.
Obama also criticized former French
President Nicolas Sarkozy for
mishandling Libya after Gadhafi's
ouster.
Obama said his biggest
accomplishment during his seven-
plus years in office was "saving the
economy from a great depression,"
the 2008 and 2009 economic plunge
that was the worst in the country
since the 1930s.
U.S. President Barack Obama pauses
while speaking about his Supreme
Court nominee to students at the
University of Chicago Law School,
where Obama taught constitutional
law for over a decade, in Chicago,
April 7, 2016.
Millions of workers were laid off,
with many of them losing their
homes because they no longer had
the money to make mortgage
payments to banks, but the U.S.
economy remains as the world's
largest and the jobless rate has
returned to its historical norms.
Health care reform
Obama, who leaves office next
January, said the best day of his
presidency was the 2010
congressional passage of national
health care reforms that came to be
called Obamacare, changes that have
handed health insurance to millions
of people who were uninsured or
have made it affordable for them to
buy policies.
Most Republican opponents of the
Democratic president still denounce
Obamacare as an overreach of the
national government.
They have failed dozens of times in
trying to repeal it and been unable to
agree on a plan to replace it.
Obama said the worst day of his
presidency was visiting the small
Connecticut town of Newtown, two
days after the mass shooting at an
elementary school there in late 2012,
when a gunman killed 20 students
and six educators.