Obama said in the Sunday interview that “saving the economy from a great depression” after the financial crisis in 2008 was his top White House accomplishment.
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In September, Obama also criticized the Libya intervention during a speech before the U.N. General Assembly. That’s in part because of the increasing presence of the Islamic State there, and US airstrikes to disrupt its operation.
Obama’s admission may pose a challenge for former secretary of state and current presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, widely viewed as the architect of the administration’s intervention in Libya in 2011.
At a March 7 town hall meeting, Mrs Clinton said what has happened since then “is deeply regrettable”.
Barack Obama has admitted that the worst mistake of his presidency was the lack of planning for the aftermath of the 2011 bombing of Libya, which led to the toppling of Muammar Gaddafi. So, a group related to ISIS stepped in and things have been awful since. He told host Chris Wallace that while intervening to get rid of Moammar Gadhafi “was the right thing to do”, he regrets “failing to plan for the day after”. No one in the USA government can credibly make the case that none of those potential refugees are terrorists, so Americans will bear the brunt of the Obama/Clinton “mistake” in Libya for years to come. Serraj must “rebuild Libya’s fractured institutions, tame power-hungry militias, win support from partisans of the government in the east, and – last but not least – crush the Islamic State’s nascent “caliphate”, Trew writes, a hefty slate of challenges for any leader.
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In his first ever interview with Fox News, President Obama was responding to a series of questions on the highs and lows of his presidency.
